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See
Woodrow Whidden, "What Have We Thought and How Then should We Think
About Christ’s ‘Sinful, Fallen Nature’?" p. 14-15. Whidden
acknowledged that he was indebted to Jean Zurcher for the three
categories. (This paper is a condensed version of a presentation given
at the Sanctuary Bible Conference held at Berrien Springs, MI, June 11,
1997). (return to text)
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In
1957, Questions on Doctrine (written by selected men in the
General Conference) pages 59, 60 states that the sinful fallen nature of
Christ took was borne "vicariously." "Again we remark,
Christ bore all this [hereditary weaknesses, frailties and infirmities]
vicariously just as vicariously He bore the iniquities of us all. It is
in this sense that all should understand the writings of Ellen G. White
when she refers occasionally to sinful, fallen, deteriorated human
nature." (return to text)
The authors of Questions on Doctrine used "vicarious"
terminology to explain away Ellen White’s clear statements concerning
the kind of human nature Christ took. George Knight made copy of this
expression and used it as a means to interpret Jones on this same topic:
"His
use of language is often confusing. Jones’s extremes in expression
and thought do not help the situation. In addition to those
problems, it is often impossible to tell exactly what he meant. For
example, we can interpret many of his discussions of Christ’s
[human] nature to mean that Christ took our sinful nature
vicariously, just as He bore our sins on the cross vicariously when
He became sin for us." George Knight, From 1888 to Apostasy,
p. 137. He repeats this in his latest, A User-Friendly Guide to
the 1888 Message, p. 155.
That Christ took
our fallen nature vicariously has to be the most untenable of all
arguments devised, especially to explain apparent contradiction as in
the case of Questions on Doctrine. By what authority do they make
such a declaration? Not one statement from inspiration. The statements
declare the opposite.
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Geoffrey
Paxton, The Shaking of Adventism, p. 153. (return
to text)
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Ibid.
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Robert
Lee Hancock, "The Humanity of Christ: A Brief Study of Seventh-day
Adventist Teachings on the Nature of Christ," pp 26,27. This is a
term paper which he presented to the faculty of the Department of Church
History at Andrew’s University, July, 1962. (return
to text)
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R.W.
Schwarz, Light Bearers to the Remnant, p. 447. (return
to text)
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Ibid.,
p. 447. (return to text)
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S.N.
Haskell Letter to Ellen White, Battle Creek, MI, September 25, 1900 (DF
190, White Estate). (return to
text)
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S.N.
Haskell, "Christ in Holy Flesh, or A Holy Christ in Sinful
Flesh," RH October 2, 1900. (return
to text)
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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R.S.
Donnell, written while president of the Indiana Conference. In 1907
these were published in a tract entitled "What I Taught in
Indiana." (DF 190, White Estate). (return
to text)
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R.S.
Donnell, "The Nature of Christ and Man," an essay written from
Memphis, TN, and sent to his colleague S.S. Davis (DF 190, White
Estate). (return to text)
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S.S.
Davis, Letter to I. J. Hankins, Elnora, Indiana, March 15, 1903. (return
to text)
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S.G.
Huntington, "The Son of Man", p. 13. A tract published by the
Mission Press, La Fayette, Indiana about 1900. (return
to text)
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G.A.
Roberts, "The Holy Flesh Fanaticism," June 11, 1923, (DF 190,
White Estate). (return to text)
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Letter
132, 1900 to Elder and Mrs. Haskell. (Recorded in See Selected
Messages, Book Two, pp. 36, 37.) (return
to text)
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E.J.
Waggoner, GCB 1901, pp. 403-405. (return
to text)
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Ellen
G. White, GCB April 17, 1901, pp. 419-420. (return
to text)
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Ellen
G. White, RH July 17,1900. (return
to text)
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Ellen
G. White, YI Dec. 20, 1900 (4BC 1147). (return
to text)
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Ellen
G. White, MS 141,1901 (7BC 926). (return
to text)
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From
Letter K. 303, September 4, 1903, (DF 63, White Estate). Handwritten
in the margin, after the letter was typed, are found these words:
"to meet and be subjected" and "working in every
conceivable manner to destroy his faith." (return
to text)
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E.J.
Waggoner, GCB 1901, pp. 403-405. (return
to text)
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S.G.
Huntington, "The Son of Man", p. 3, (A tract published by the
Mission Press, La Fayette, Indiana, 1900). (return
to text)
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Ibid.
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Pius
IX, Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854. (An edited edition is
found in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph
491). (return to text)
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
(return to text)
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Catechism
of the Catholic Church, Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 1994: 966
(this is the paragraph number of the book. Paragraph numbering from the
Catechism will be used in this paper because of different paginations
between hard and soft cover editions). (return
to text)
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Pius
IX, Ineffabilis Deus. (return
to text)
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Catechism
of the Catholic Church: 492. (return
to text)
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Pius
IX, Ineffabilis Deus. (return
to text)
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Catholic
Belief, page 214 [American ed.: June 5, 1884]. (return
to text)
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Ludwig
Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, tr. Patrick Lynch, Rockford,
IL: TAN Books & Publishers, 1974 (orig. 1952 in German), p. 200. (return
to text)
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Ibid.:
216, 217. (return to text)
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James
Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, NY: P. J. Kennedy
& Sons, rev. ed., 1917, pp.198,199. (return
to text)
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Fulton
Sheen, The World’s First Love, pp. 15, 16, 48. (return
to text)
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Daniel
7:25. (return to text)
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Pope
Boniface VIII, in the Papal Bull, Unam Sanctam, 1302 A.D. (return
to text)
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Thomas
F. Torrance, The Meditation of Christ, Helmers and Howard
Publishers, 1992, pp. 39, 40. (return
to text)
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A.
T. Jones, "The Third Angel’s Message", No. 14, General
Conference Bulletin, 1895, pp. 266, 267. (return
to text)
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A.
T. Jones, "The Third Angel’s Message", No. 13, General
Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 233. (return
to text)
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"Bible
Study in the book of Romans" #12, General Conference Bulletin,
1891. (return to text)
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"Ancient
Homily for Holy Saturday" cited in Catechism of the Catholic
Church: 635. (return to text)
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Catechism
of the Catholic Church: 631. (return
to text)
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Catechism
of the Catholic Church: 632. (return
to text)
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Catechism
of the Catholic Church: 633. (return
to text)
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Hebrews
2:14; Romans 8:3; Hebrews 2:17; Matthew 8:17; Hebrews 4:15. (return
to text)
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Revelation
3:21. (return to text)
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Woodrow
W. Whidden III, Ellen White on the Humanity of Christ, p. 13. (return
to text)
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Ibid.
p. 49. (return to text)
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Testimonies
to Ministers, pp. 91, 92. (return
to text)
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