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LARSON ABANDONS
HIS POSITION
PREVIOUSLY HELD ON INC RN TION
LET S TALK IT OVER
recent Campmeeting, and
A
to Action." This call to action notified the
at Trefz was disfellowshiped by the
e c h u r c h i n S o u t h D a k o t a h a d r e q u es te d t h e
, about 20 miles from Rapid City. It is
embership. It is a
setting
rch acts within its
od faith, or properly, there is
ided a means of appeal from the decision
ntana churches and the readers
o the
Presidents in protest.
his whole
To page 6. col. 2
I n 1 9 86, D r . Ralph L arso n released a mo nument
w o r k - T h e W o r d W a s M a d e F l e sh - w h ic h t r a c e
one hundred years of Seventh-day Adventi
Christology regarding the nature that Chri
assumed in the incarnation. The cover desig
even depicted it as "light from the throne o
God." From the many quotations contained
the book on the Incarnation from the pen o
Ellen G. White Dr. Larson selected one which i
his judgment best summarized his findings an
placed it on introductory page V. This statemen
reads:
The nature of God, whose law had been transgressed, a
the nature of Adam, the transgressor, meet in Jesus, t
Son of God, and the Son of man. Ms. 141, 1901)
In recent months Dr. Larson has been embroil
in a controversy over his misuse of the Writin
in an article on Tithing as printed in OF
(Sept., 1991). Instead of simply acknowledgin
that he did distort his quotes from Testimoni
for the Church, Vol. 7, pp. 176-177, he has no
produced a tract on tithing which compounds h
error and signals a change of his position on t
I n c a r n a t i o n f r o m w h a t
he wrote in 1986 H
stated in two different places as follows:
My theology is precisely and specifically the theolo
set forth in the book
Seventh-day Adventists Belie
sic) p. 3)
We pause to point out that the true doctrine of t
nature of hrist is set forth in the book
Seven
day Adventists Believe sic), pp. 37-56. p. 32)
The bo o k, Sev enth-day Adv entists Bel iev e. . ., no
gives a third alternative for Seventh-d
Adventists in regard to the nature that Chri
assumed in taking humanity. This was plain
stated by Dr. Roger Coon in the
Tithe pamph
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. 7, 1991), and to which Larson directs
Part 2 of his Tithe tract. Note
b e f o r e Adam's fall; (2)
certain respects was like
but
in other respects was like
ventist Believe... endorses. In the section,
Christ's humanity was not the Adamic humanity, that
respect the humanity of Adam
fall. It was not the Adamic because it had
but without sin. (p. 47)
his statement is noted as coming from the
glican divine, Henry Melvill, who defined,
ocent infirmities" as hunger, pain, sorrow,
view which Dr. Larson states is my
.precisely and specifically. In his
In his Tithe tract, Dr. Larson resorts to the
f i r s t
by Enright of the Roman Catholic
frequently by Adventist
that no-
H a s
a reward c ommittee been set
the 1,000 deposited, so that evidence can be
challenge for the offer? If not, it is just
much east wind . (See Hosea
12:1)
in two separate offers,
to Dr.
Devnich, President of the
Canadian
rence of Seventh-day Adventists (p. 2). But
FERRELL COMES
UNGLUED
In the issues of Wa rks Numbers 411 and 41
Ferrell seeks to is diabolical perversio
of truth which he had written in PG 124, pag
14-16. He begins his essay with a lie declarin
- "In a recent tralated newsletter." The issue
WWN is clearly dated. Right above the wor
"Truth" in the title - "Diabolical Perversion
Truth" - is the date - 7(92). interestingly, whe
he quoted from WWN, he was able to docume
it as Vol. XXV, No. 7. Then he proceeded
date the incident of Brother Stump's and m
visit to Pilgrim's Rest as "approximately a ye
ago." The date was Sunday, April 10, 1988, w
over a year ago. Brother Stump has bee
serving as pastor of the Smyrna Gospel Ministri
in West Virginia since the Fall of 1988. In fa
within the year, Ferrell has corresponded w
Stump at his West Virginia address. He simp
came unglued, and what followed is th
fabrication of a confused mind.
Brother Stump has talked to Ferrell on th
telephone regarding his prevarications noting th
he in no wise said what Ferrell placed in dire
quotes in column 2. To assume that eith
Brother Stump or I would be overwhelmed
Ferrell's assertion that the pitter-patter of alie
feet walking the streets of Jerusalem wou
indicate that the city of Jerusalem was st
trodden down of the Gentiles is simply ludicro
in the extreme. It is
one
thing to seek
answer another's position with what o
perceives, even if it is only his opinion, but
stoop to outright lying, echoes a fatherhood w
One who abode not in the truth. The wor
"diabolical" was
well chosen in the title of t
article in WWN, 7(92).
After Ferrell's lying report reached the field
w ll
intentioned brother sincerely wrote
Ferrell suggesting a compromised position on
text - Luke 21:24. I received a copy of t
letter. o this letter, I responded, and t
response summarizes the issue.
ere is
letter, dated August 16, 1992. (A copy was E
sent to Ferrell)
Your endeavor to suggest a compromise, or a harmoniz
between what Vance Ferrell has written on Luke 21:24,
the manuscripts we have published on the subject, tho
sincerely done, cannot succeed any more than an att
to harmonize truth with error. I write this for
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Part One
een
of corporate repentance. This was due
further consideration
is a God of mercy, He is also a
there
all Sacred Writ where He granted
es very re l spect of corpor te
keep before us a clear
corporate. This word
m the Latin - corpus - meaning, body.
is compared
s provis ion f or corporations is a fund amental
choose what that church shall be. Then, wha
are my responsibilities by so choosing? What is
my accountability because of that choice? Wha
choices does one have, once he becomes a par
of s uch a corpus ?
There is and always has been tension between
individual responsibility and corporate account
ability. Man was created in the image of God,
and with this image came certain power - power
to think and to do. It has been stated thus:
Every human being created in the image of God is
endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator -
individuality power to think and to do.... It is the
work of true education to develop this power; to trai
youth to be thinkers, and not mere reflectors of othe
men s thoughts. (Education, p. 17)
Since "in the highest sense, the work o
education and the work of redemption are one"
(ibid., p. 30), the Church, though a corpus, to b
true to its trust, must seek the development in
the individuals composing the body, tha
restoration of the image of God, which give
them the power to think and to act. It is th
object of this study to explore what God has t
say about corporate accountability, so that w
may know how to relate as individuals to th
crisis of corporate identity at this present time
God created the first corporation. Its formatio
is described in these words:
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam
and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed u
the flesh thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God ha
taken from man made He a woman and brought her unt
the
man. And Adam said This is
ow
bone of my banes
and flesh of
y
flesh: she shall be called Woman, becaus
she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man lea
his father and his mother and shall cleave unto h
wife: for they shall be one flesh. (Gen. 2: 21-24)
Here we have two individuals, with individua
responsibility, yet declared to be one in
corporate identity.
The next picture presented in the Scriptur
record is the seduction of Eve by the serpent
partake of that which God had forbidden. B
the question comes - Did Adam have to si
because he was
o n with Eve? No He ha
been created in the image of God with th
power to think and to do as an individual. Ho
God would have met the situation had Adam n
chosen to eat of the fruit offered to him by Ev
is a moot question. However, the
Scripture
do
not state that by Eve sin entered the world, b
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one man. (Rom. 5:17)
y his deliberate
am not only surrendered his
ng death to the human race. As in Adam
(I Cor. 15:22a) Since a corporation has
an because of their identity in that first
oration. Paul stated it this way -
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
all men, for that all have sinned. (Rom.
pus of Adam; there is the corpus of
As in Adam all die, even so in Christ
be made alive. ( I Cor. 15:22)
en unto justification of life. (Rom. 5:18)
nce I by natural birth am involved in the
any as receive the Word made flesh, to
v n
to them that believe on His
(John 1:12-13) With the coming of God
manity - God was manifest in the flesh
s the corpus of Adam. This new corpus
ht about by God, as was the first
o that new corpus Christi, Jesus
nd clearly
THE ORPUS HRISTI
s declared - I am the way, the truth and
(John 14:6) The only access back to the
and to life - for in Adam all die - is
Christ. When alone with His
iples had heard various
comments as they mingled with the multitude
who came to listen and to be healed. Then
Jesus asked them directly - But whom say y
that I am?
(Matt.
16:15) To this question
Peter responded - Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. This perception of reality in
contradiction to what He appeared to be - th
Son of man - came only through revelation. I
could not be comprehended through the insigh
available to flesh and blood but came from th
Father which is in heaven. Upon thi
revelation of truth - divine in origin, solid as
rock - Jesus declared He would build His Church
(Matt. 16:17-18) He, the very embodiment o
Truth, became the head of that body - th
Corpus Christi.
Paul perceived this nature of the Corpus Christ
when he wrote to Timothy, stating:
These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto
th
shortly: but if I tarry long, that thoumayestknow how tho
oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which i
the church of the living God, the pillar and the stay o
the truth. I Tim. 3:14-15, margin)
The Corpus Christi is to be the pillar, the sta
the visible means through which truth is to b
revealed to man. And only as it adheres to trut
can it truly be the Church of the living God.
It is most informative, and also very revealin
how the Apostolic Church viewed themselves an
how they were viewed by the Jewish Church
which they were or had been a part dependin
upon their spiritual progression. When Pau
sought to apprehend heretics, dissidents, o
whatever name they might have been called
the synagogues of Damascus, his letters o
authority described these people as followers o
the way. (Acts 9:1-2, Gr.) Luke tells of a
incident on Paul's third missionary journey whic
occurred at Ephesus and what he did about
The record reads:
And he [Paul] went into the synagogue, and spake bold
for the space of three months, disputing and persuadi
the things concerning the kingdom of God But wh
divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil
the way [Greek] before the multitude, he departed fr
them, and separated the disciples,... Acts 19:8-9)
After this decision by the Apostle Paul, the wor
of God grew mightily and prevailed so th
there was no small stir about
the way. (19:2
Or) This concept of The Way was again use
by Paul as he addressed the riotous Jewish mo
from the stairs of the Tower of Antonia
Speaking in the Hebrew tongue, he told of h
education and training in Jerusalem at the fe
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Gamaliel, his zeal toward God, and how he
this way unto death. (Acts 22:4) It
the book of Acts, that while the
of Christ were first called Christians
en is that he abode not in the truth.
the Prince of life. (Acts 3:15) He came to
that had the power of death. (Heb.
e, the Word made flesh, was full of
and truth. (John 1:14)
hrough the
plishment of Christ, and the provision thus
for man, is spoken of as the way out, or
exodus. Luke, in telling of the coming of
oses and Elijah to Jesus at the time of the
n, states that they spoke of His
e which He should accomplish at
(Luke 9:31) The word translated in
KJV as decease is the Greek,
exodos,
or
way out. Thus those who proclaimed Him
only way to the Father as the sole
Jewish religious leaders as Followers of the
And to the Hebrew Christians, Paul could
that new and living way, which He
say His flesh. (Heb. 10:20)
be truth, is vividly contrasted in the
l and the lawyer for
x. When permitted to speak in his
I
confess unto thee,
the way
which they call heresy, so
. (Acts 24:14) His basis of belief was
e that it always had been - he still
of God. He still
hers. To Paul, he
truth which the
ord had revealed - the revelation of the
was he viewed by the
erusalem? Tertullus, advocate for
religious leaders, declared him to be a
pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition amon
all the Jews throughout the world and
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. (Act
24:5) What really was Paul's crime? He could
no longer support the hierarchy, nor the program
they projected for the people. To him, th
leadership of Israel had rejected the Truth; the
had betrayed the Trust committed to them. H
with Stephen believed they had resisted the Ho
Spirit to their damnation, and though they ha
received the law by the disposition of angels
they had not kept it. (Acts 7:51, 53)
These convictions form the basis for Paul
teachings as found in the book of Romans: The
which are the children of the flesh [th
succession upon which the corpus of Israel wa
based], these are not the children of God: bu
the children of the promise [succession base
upon the Word God - truth] are counted for th
seed. (Rom. 9:8) Therefore, hath God cast awa
His people? To this Paul answers - Go
forbid. What then is the answer? Noting th
history of Israel in the days of Elijah, Pau
concludes - Even so then at the present tim
also there is a remnant according to the electio
of grace. (Rom. 11:1-5) To Paul, this remnan
is the Israel of God. (Gal. 6:16)
What did Paul want those to see - those sti
attached to the succession of the flesh? If y
be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, an
heirs according to the promise. (Gal. 3:29) Th
inheritance would not come through the corpora
structure of Israel, but by following The Way
truth that leads to life. To remain attached
the earthly Jerusalem was not the answer. Pa
declared that church controlled by the hierarch
to be in bondage with her children. But th
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is th
mother of us all. (Gal. 4:25-26) He wrote
the Hebrews that they had come unto Moun
Zion, and to the city of the living God, th
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerab
company of angels [who still abode in the truth
to the general assembly and church of th
firstborn, which are written in heaven, and
God the judge of all. (Heb. 12:22-23) And th
on y
way - The Way - to that God with Who
we have to do, is by Jesus Christ, the way, th
truth and the life. The succession which Go
recognizes is not the way of organization, b
the way of truth. Organization thoug
necessary, is only a vehicle, a means by whic
truth is carried. Loyalty is not to a vehicle, bu
to truth itself. Those who are thus loyal
truth constitute the Corpus Christi.
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t
us consider Paul's question - Hath God cast
God forbid How can He deny that
ovement and the Seventh-day Adventist
enth-day Adventist church is to be
To Be Continued
XTime Church - Dr. Colin Standish wrote:
n g e r G o d s c h u r c h . I f t h a t w e r e t r u e ,
rch. H o w ca n h u ma n s b e c o n f i d e n t o f
, n o o n e will kn ow. This
s. E v e n i n a b j e c t a p o s t a s y,
4
with deceptive
the
quoted
he time frame being
comparison of the
them
captivity 490 years of grace.
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Let s Talk It Over - from page 1, col. 1
thing is ludicrous, and only contributes to
compounding the confusion of mind which m ark
the "voices" emanating from "Steps to Life."
Consider, Trefz was taken in on profession o
faith by the Troy Church - what faith? The
Church of which Troy is a part states that faith
to be the 27 Fundamentals as voted at Dallas in
1980. If those who are members at Troy no
longer adhere to these 27 Statements, then why
do they want to stay a part of that body which
so believes?
It comes down to the same question again. I
the Seventh-day Adventist Chu rch in apostasy, o
is there only apostasy in the Church? If only
apostasy in the Church, and this is what Larson
avers as he lists various issues on his tithe trac
- "The Tithe Problem." He lists, NLP, Kingly
Power, Celebration, Ecumenism, New Theology
and Law Suits. But in the same breath, h
declares the Church to be God's only tru
church. If so, that Church has authority an
discipline, and the failure to recognize that fac
is plain and simple rebellion. The "Cali to
Action" is not a call to truth, but a call fo
God's concerned people to join in a rebellion
because the leaders of that rebellion hav
become self-deceived. One wonders if Grosbol
is really self -deceived, or has a hidden agenda
and is seeking to deceive honest people to
accomplish that "agenda." One doesn't have t
be a Jesuit to use Jesuitical methods. Why don'
Larson and Grosboll, Spear and Standish simpl
admit that in the actions taken at Dallas, an
reflected in Seventh-day Adventists Believe.
are a negation of "historic" Adventism, and the
in turn are sponsoring a new Historic Seventh
day Adventist Church organization. Do they no
know the law that two objects cannot occupy th
same place at the same time. But Larson now
says, he is no longer a historic Adventist, but
"new theology" Adventist. God have mercy o
His people, scattered on the "hills of Israel" b
the confused "voices" coming from California
Virginia, Washington and Kan sas.
ee
Ezeki
34.
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did not say, when ye shall see the temple
unt surrounded, then know ye that the destruction is
would have been too late for them Just
who buy his heresy.
to the discourse,
temple, You house is left unto you
(Matt. 23:38) Ferrell is merely following
interpreta-
Ferrell is making the date, 1967, the key date thus
e does not even
moved its government
the action of the
esset declared on July 30, 1980 - "Jerusalem united in
period covered by the Greek idiom
1:24 - achri hou. A series of three successive
icance began with the welcoming of the
John Paul II, to the White House. This was
and then the action of
It needs to be kept in mind that Jesus was talking
duals. The probation of the corporate bodies of
d
White wrote:
d as watchmen and light-bearers. To them has
erishing world...
hey have been given a work of the most solemn import, -
hree] angels' messages. There
o the trust committed to them. (91:19)
God has also stated unequivocally that th
Church to whom He has entrusted so much is "t
be weighed" in "the balances of the sanctuary;
and if she has not proved true to "the wor
entrusted to her, on her will be pronounced th
sentence, 'Found wanting." (8T:247) And th
God who gave warning to the Jewish Church, wi
not give warning to the Seventh-day Adventi
Church How blind can we become in ou
Laodicean state?
Further, the "messenger" stated positively
1896 that her mind "was carried into the future
when the signal will be given, 'Behold th
Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.
(R&H, Feb. 11, 1896) What do these words mea
a
ye out to meet Him"? A separation, yes
moreover a "signal" will be given No one w
know, or see this signal? Come now, D
Standish, let us not continue to deceive God
people. You have played that game long enoug
But how long will God's concerned peop
continue to let these "voices" lull them into
fatal sense of security with their fallaciou
reasoning?
We have been told that the Laodicean state "
represented by the foolish virgins." on whom th
door is shut. (R&H, Aug. 19, 1890) In othe
words, the signal to be given would mark th
close of probation for corporate Laodicea. No
Standish's agnosticism comes through, "no on
will know" Many of God's concerned people a
still in the blindness of Laodicea, but they d
not need to continue to follow blind leader
The heavenly eyesalve of fulfilled prophecy ca
awaken those who are willing to have their ey
opened. Write for the tract - "Jerusalem
Bible Prophecy."
rile
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