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Articles by Terry Hill |
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The Prophet Still Speaks
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AN EXPOSÉ CONCERNING ELLEN
WHITE’S “IN CHRIST IS LIFE, ORIGINAL UNBORROWED, UNDERIVED” STATEMENT (THE
DESIRE OF AGES, PAGE 530) |
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REGARDING GOD AND CHRIST A SIMPLE CONFESSION OF FAITH What does the Bible alone say about God
and Christ? |
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS OF THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH This article shows the development of the Fundamental
Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from what they were when this
church began, through to the latest development at the 1980 General
Conference session held at Dallas Texas |
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EARLY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS AND THE RISK FACTOR What did early Seventh-day
Adventists believe about the risk taken by God and Christ in the salvation of
the human race?You can read about it in this article. |
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THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE HOLY SPIRIT Some Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Holy
Spirit is a divine person exactly the same as God and Christ are divine
persons. Others disagree. This small article details certain observations to
be made when considering this question. |
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A YEAR-BY-YEAR TIMELINE OF QUOTATIONS FROM
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY SHOWING CHRIST TO BE THE SON OF GOD. Through
their official publications, the Seventh-day Adventist Church today claims
that Christ is not really the Son of God. They say instead that the
terminologies of Father and Son, as used in the Bible of God and Christ, are
only metaphors. These quotations of Ellen White say differently. |
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THE KELLOGG PROBLEM (the alpha of deadly
heresies) In the early 1900's there was a crisis within the SDA Church. It was
so serious that Ellen White said it almost killed her. So what brought it
about? John Harvey Kellogg, the chief physician in the SDA Church, had
written a book in which his views of God led Ellen White to say he was making
both God and Christ to look like non-entities (non-personal beings). She also
said he was not only destroying the gospel but also the faith of SDAs.
Kellogg, in defence of what he had written, said he had come to believe in
'the trinity', which was something not then generally believed by SDAs. Ellen
White described Kellogg's views of God as the 'alpha of deadly heresies', and
said that the 'omega' would follow shortly. This was in 1904. This article
reveals what Kellogg believed, also Ellen White's response to it. |
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SOME
THINGS ARE NOT EASILY EXPLAINED
Some non-trinitarians, in
their pursuit of the condemnation of trinitarianism, tend to overlook the
mysteries of the existence of God. They seem to regard everything as ‘black
and white‘ when in reality, there are some things not easily explained. This
is a cross section of the writings of Ellen White where she refers to both
the Father and the Son as God. |
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IS CHRIST CALLED THE SON OF
GOD ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS RESURRECTION? Some believe that because
the apostle Paul used Psalm 2:7 when referring to the resurrection of Jesus
(see Acts 13:33), that this means Christ was only God’s Son because of the
resurrection. This article shows differently. |
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ANOTHER LOOK AT MONOGENES
(Gr. μονογενής) In the KJV and other translations of the Bible,
Christ is described as the only begotten Son of God (John 1:14, 1:18, 3:16,
3:18, 1 John 4:9). These words, “only begotten”, are translated from the
Greek word monogenes (Gr. μονογενής). Today
there are those who say that this is a mistranslation. This study reveals how those conversant with the
Greek language understood its usage. This was before Christ came to earth and
afterwards. |
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WHERE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT? A compilation of Ellen
White’s writings that show Lucifer (Satan) was once next to Christ in the
courts of Heaven, and not the Holy Spirit. This in turn, at least according
to Ellen White, reveals that the Holy Spirit is not another divine being such
as God and Christ are divine beings. This is even though she refers to the
Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead (Desire of Ages page 671). |
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AN IMPENETRABLE MYSTERY Did the divine Son of God
die at Calvary? When the decision was made for Him to become incarnate, was there
a risk taken concerning His eternal existence? |
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THE VERY THEOLOGY OF THE
TRINITY DOCTRINE An article showing that
trinitarians do not believe that a divine person died at Calvary, also that
they do not believe either that when the decision was made for Him to become
incarnate, there was a risk taken concerning His eternal existence. |
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST TRINITY THEOLOGY (WHAT IT IS, AND
WHAT IT IS NOT) A study of the trinity doctrine as
currently espoused by the Seventh-day Adventist church showing the
implications of its theology with respect to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This
is as opposed to the theology of early Seventh-day Adventists that
necessitated a rejection of trinitarian theology. |
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FATHER AND SON - METAPHORS
OR NOT METAPHORS? An analysis of the present-day theology of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church concerning God the Father and the Son of God A comparison of the old and new (current) theology
of Seventh-Day Adventists. Doubting the Scriptures. |
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WHY CHRIST IS CALLED THE
SON OF GOD A Biblical exposition exploring the reason
why Christ is called the Son of God. |
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MONOGENES (μονογενής) In the Bible, Jesus is
called the monogenes Son of God, but what does this Greek terminology
mean? At the link below you will find, from someone who is Greek, the answer.
This was in reply to a Seventh-day minister, who, like many others, believes
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UNDERSTANDING
THE BEGOTTEN CONCEPT
What
does it mean for Christ to be begotten of God – and what does it mean for
Christ to be the Son of God?
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A study of the Scriptures and the writings of Ellen G. White showing Christ to be God |
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRINITY THEOLOGY WITHIN THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - PART 3 The Son of God - A brief study through the spirit of prophecy |
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A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF FATHER AND SON
THEOLOGY An overview of the controversy, within the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, over the person of Christ |
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COULD
CHRIST HAVE SINNED? This article shows
that Ellen White did not agree with Ellet J. Waggoner regarding whether
Christ, during the incarnation, could have sinned.
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THE USE OF THE WORD ‘TRINITY’ WITHIN
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLICATIONS An article
showing that early Seventh-day Adventists, even though at times they used the
word ‘trinity’, did not believe the trinity doctrine.
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ELLEN WHITE CONDEMNS TRINITARIAN REASONING
Many people, just because
Ellen White said there are three persons of the Godhead, believe she was a
trinitarian. This article shows otherwise. |
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AN ARTICLE SENT TO THE WHITE ESTATE SHOWING
THAT ELLEN WHITE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A TRINITARIAN In
2016, Larry Crews of the White Estate, attempted to convince me that Ellen
White’s writings speak of God as a trinity of persons as depicted by the
trinity doctrine. This article is my response to those claims |
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UNDERSTANDING 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6 This
verse is very often taken out of context. Click the link below for the
author’s understanding of this verse of Scripture. |
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THE BEGOTTEN SERIES An article showing how early Christians regarded Christ as the
only--begotten of God – also how Seventh-day Adventists today view Christ. |
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A RESEARCH PAPER ON THE HISTORY OF THE TRINITY
DOCTRINE WITHIN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND WITHIN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM. |
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A STUDY OF THE GODHEAD – AS IT PERTAINS TO
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM |
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ELLEN WHITE’S COMMENTS REGARDING THE
INCARNATION OF CHRIST AND HIS DEATH AT CALVARY |
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ELLEN WHITE’S COMMENTS ON THE
RISK TAKEN IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION |
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THE HUMAN NATURE OF THE
INCARNATE CHRIST A study of the Scriptures and
Ellen White’s writings concerning the human nature taken by Christ during the
incarnation. |
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A SIMPLE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING
THE TRINITY DOCTRINE – ITS THEOLOGY, ITS HISTORY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS |
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DON’T GET SHORT-CHANGED In
1983, the White Estate published a cut-down version of Ellen White’s book
Patriarchs and Prophets. In this cut-down version, certain statements were
omitted from the first chapter that reveal the true position of the Son of
God to His Father. You can read about the removal of these statements here. |
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WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH? Truth
is of the highest importance. Who and what we believe will ultimately
determine our destiny. We cannot afford to get it wrong. Certainly we cannot
get it wrong about the person of Christ. Yet today, within the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, there are many voices, and not all are saying the same
thing. In fact many views are diametrically opposed to each other. Read about
this here. |
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THE OFFICIAL 1936 (NON-TRINITARIAN) GODHEAD BELIEFS OF SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS In 1936, the General
Conference issued a series of Sabbath School lesson studies that were said to
explain the official beliefs held by Seventh-day Adventists. The beliefs on
the Godhead are here highlighted. |
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A BRIEF SKETCH OF MY JOURNEY FROM TRINITARIANISM
TO NON-TRINITARIANISM My
personal testimony of why and how, after confessing to be a trinitarian for
25 years, I had to openly reject the trinity doctrine. |
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MY RESPONSE TO MAX HATTON'S CHALLENGE Max
Hatton is a retired Seventh-day Adventist minister living in Australia. On his website he issues a challenges to
all non-trinitarians. He challenges them to make their views publicly known.
This is my response to his challenge. |
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A BIBLE STUDY ON THE DEATH OF
CHRIST AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HIM SINNING In
2014, Max Hatton, a retired Seventh-day Adventist minister living in
Australia asked me to provide from Scripture, the evidence that (a) the
divine Son of God had died at Calvary, also (b), that in agreeing to become incarnate,
Christ had put at risk His eternal existence. This is my response. |
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A REPLY TO A TRINITARIAN
UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEATH OF JESUS This was my reply to Max Hatton
(a retired Seventh-day Adventist minister living in Australia) when he told
me that the divine person of Christ did not die at Calvary, also that Christ,
when making the decision to become incarnate, did not put a risk His eternal
existence |
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FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD A brief study on God’s love showing that as a sacrifice to pay for
the sins of humanity, He really did give His only begotten Son. |
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BE NOT DECEIVED – CHRIST REALLY IS THE SON OF GOD This
is a study of what has been revealed through Ellen White concerning the
identity and the pre-existence of Christ. It is only a small study but it is
full of very important information – especially in the light of the present
Godhead debate within Seventh-day Adventism. |
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WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? It is repeatedly said, by the trinitarians, that non-trinitarians do
not believe in the full and complete divinity of Christ but this is far from being
true. As will be seen in the five sections of this series, the author – a
non-trinitarian - unreservedly accepts that the Bible teaches that Christ is
none other than God in the person of the Son. |
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BEWARE Beware
of the trinitarians who teach that the divine person of the Son of God did
not die at Calvary. They are doing the work of Satan. |
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THE SON OF GOD (SCRIPTURE ONLY) This
article is a study of what the Bible says concerning the pre-existent Son of
God. As many Seventh-day Adventists will realise, their denomination do not confess
today that Christ is truly the Son of God but say instead that the term ‘Son’
is only used by the Bible writers in a metaphorical (figurative) sense. This
of course makes the term ‘Father’ metaphorical. The author of this article
disputes this reasoning. He says that Christ is the literal Son of God. |
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THE
SON OF GOD (INCLUDING ELLEN WHITE’S COMMENTS) This
article is a study of what the Bible and the writings of Ellen White say
concerning the pre-existent Son of God. As many Seventh-day Adventists will
realise, their denomination does not confess today that Christ is truly the
Son of God but instead says that the term ‘Son’ is only used by the Bible
writers in a metaphorical (figurative) sense. This of course in turn makes
the term ‘Father’ metaphorical. The author of this article disputes this
reasoning. He believes that Christ is the literal Son of God. |
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THE DIVINE PERSONS OF GOD AND CHRIST This
is a study of Scripture and the spirit of prophecy. It was written in response
to a Seventh-day Adventist minister’s continuing allegations on Facebook that
my understanding of God and Christ was erroneous |
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CONCERNING CHRIST - THE CURRENT BELIEFS AND TEACHINGS OF THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH This article shows
that the Scriptures reveal that Christ is truly the Son of God, begotten of
God in eternity. This is in keeping with what the Seventh-day Adventist
Church taught for the first 100 years of its existence as God’s remnant
people – 71 of which was when we had God’s messenger amongst us, namely Ellen
G. White. Today, as a denomination, we teach something entirely different. We
teach today that God and Christ, along with the Holy Spirit, are only
role-playing (acting out) their various parts. |
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THE SILENT EDITING OF PAST LITERATURE Unbeknown to many people,
an edition of the Seventh-day Adventist Biblical Research newsletter
‘Reflections’ was edited many years after its first publication. |
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1 + 1 + 1 =1 IS THIS A BIBLICAL EXPLANATION OF GOD OR A PHILOSOPHICAL
SPECULATION? This series was
prompted by an article called “1+1+1=One” – which was written by Norman R
Gulley and published in the February 2010 issue of ‘Adventist World’ |
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NO MORE THAN SWINE’S BLOOD This
article refutes the trinitarian belief that only the human nature of Christ
died at Calvary – not a divine person. John Loughborough wrote the following “It
will not do to substitute the human nature of Christ (according to
Trinitarians) as the Mediator; for Clarke says, "Human blood can no more
appease God than swine's blood."” (John Loughborough, Review and Herald,
November 5th 1861, ‘Questions for Bro. Loughborough’) |
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WHO OR WHAT DIED AT CALVARY? The most important teaching in Christianity is the atonement. This is
why it is important that we get it absolutely right regarding who and what
died at Calvary. In my pursuit of what is really believed by trinitarians, it
seems to me that most seem to believe that only human nature died at Calvary,
and not a divine person. In this study we shall discover the truth of the
matter. |
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THE UNADDRESSED ISSUE Could the incarnate divine
Son of God have sinned? If He could and did sin, then what would have
happened to Him? In this brief but very important article, these questions
are candidly answered. |
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A BRIEF UNDOCUMENTED OVERVIEW OF THE
HISTORY OF THE REJECTION AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TRINITY DOCTRINE WITHIN
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM As the title suggests, this
study is not documented. It is simply the author’s view of how the one-time non-trinitarian
Godhead beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists developed into a full-blown trinity
doctrine. This was after being a non-trinitarian denomination for over 100
years. |
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THE SPEAR ARTICLE In 1891, a Presbyterian minister by the name of
Samuel Spear, published an article called The
Subordination of Christ. The following year, the
Seventh-day Adventist Church used it as a tract to explain their Godhead
beliefs to the public. It was re-named The
Bible Doctrine of the Trinity. It reveals therefore,
in 1892, what was believed by Seventh-day Adventists about the Godhead. |
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AN ENQUIRY ANSWERED In
2017 I received an enquiry regarding the trinity doctrine. It was said “Whenever
I look at the Trinity area, I always get confused, even though I have a lot
of background in spiritual things. It seems apparent that people are using
the term "Trinity" to mean a variety of beliefs.” This
article is my response. |
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IS THE HOLY SPIRIT A PERSON? This
is a much debated question. It is also a question that has had numerous
answers. In this study, many texts of Scriptures are given consideration – as
also are many quotations from the writings of Ellen White.. |
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CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT (AN
EMAIL TO A FRIEND) Four years ago in 2016, a friend asked me what my views were
concerning the Holy Spirit. This article contains my answer to him. |
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THE ROLE OF ELLEN WHITE WITHIN SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISM Through
its leadership for many years, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has made the
claim that it was the writings of Ellen White that led our denomination to
change from its once solid stand of non-trinitarianism (this was whilst Ellen
White was alive) to the trinitarian view of God that it takes today. In this
article, we shall discover who Ellen White was, also how her writings should
be regarded in relation to the Scriptures. |
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THREE CHOICES This
article is a copy of an email
that I sent to a friend 13 years ago at the beginning of 2008. She had
encountered a website that gave certain definitions concerning the trinity
doctrine. This article is my response to this lady. |
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GODS STRANGE ACT Amongst
Seventh-day Adventists today there are, in circulation, a number of false
ideas about God. One such idea is portrayed by the trinity doctrine whilst
another is the belief that God does not kill. Each view is as destructive as
the other. This is because they both portray a wrong picture of God. Satan is
continually striving to misrepresent God. If he fails in one way then he
tries another. |
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JESUS GIVES US SIGNS OF HIS RETURN It
has been said that the signs Jesus gave us that tell us of His return – like
the dark day of 1780, also the ‘falling stars’ of 1833 etc, are not signs to
show his return to be near but rather that they are just to remind us that
one day, Jesus will return. I
refute this belief. I believe these signs were fixed to show the return of
Christ to be near. As you will see in this study, this is confirmed in the
writings of Ellen White. |
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MY REBUTTAL OF A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MINISTER’S CLAIMS During October 2015 I received
a series of emails from an SDA minister named Richard Mendoza. He claimed
that the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, that I have on my
website, is a falsified history. This is a rebuttal to his claims. This
minister has never addressed himself to this rebuttal. |
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MY RESPONSE TO RICHARD MENDOZA’S FACEBOOK
COMMENTS This article explains why I found it necessary to stop Richard
Mendoza, who was once a minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, from
writing to my Facebook page. |
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THE TWO COVENANTS A
Biblical exposition of the Two Covenants |
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