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I was wondering how you viewed her writings. Some SDAs seem to think her grocery list was inspired.

I saw a SDA Saturday school (?) lesson about Ellen G White, talking about what kind of woman she was. It seemed really weird to me. I wouldn't imagine Methodists had books with little pictures about John Wesley and his preaching or Presbyterians with pictures of Calvin or Knox in Sunday school.

Hi, as I said I am a Seventh Day Adventist. The only reason this question answer post is here is because I have seen many people throw things at my Faith without really knowing what we believe.

So I will be answering any Bible questions you have if I can. Repeat BIBLE questions. Everything I believe and that my Church teaches is firmly based in Scripture and no where else.

Now I have a lot on my plate so please be patient with me. This post is not designed to argue but rather help those who wish to better understand our position. You do not have to agree with me in any way. I will however be using the bible to answer any questions. so if you need to discuss anything with me about a topic that you think I am wrong in then feel free. but use your Bible. I will not pay any heed to those who come in here and rant on their soap box without scripture to back them up.

In other words, lets be Christian about this. I have no need nor want to put others down. and will not respond to put downs and unchristian behaviour.

One other thing. I am a Seventh Day Adventist Pastor, and one thing I have learnt is that most Professed Seventh Day Adventists do not know what we actually believe. Why do I say this? Because While you may have read things about us and done some study. chances are, you don't understand half as much about our teaching as you think you do.

I do not pretend to know everything about how other faiths believe even though I used to be a pentecostal. I am not ignorant enough to think that I know them because I once was one. so please afford me the same respect.

That being said, May God bless us all as we draw closer to Him in truth and in Spirit.

Jesus", took the form of an Angel and was called "Michael" which means "Who is as God".

there's a pretty big and obvious flaw with that - 'Mikael' means 'who is like God?' in the sense that it is an interrogative, not a descriptive phrase.

Christians quote other Christian's words all the time. R. C. Sproll and Billy Graham are favorites among many radio preachers. But the minute someone quotes EGW, everyone loses their minds SMH

Er...I've known for almost two decades "Mee--Kie-El" means "Who is like God". It is not necessarily interrogative, which would be a silly name for anyone - no other Biblical name is a question.

does He know how many mansions to build?
does He build a random number and hope it's enough? will he have too many, or not enough?
He knows if He has lost one sheep or not - and He won't lose one. so does He know how many sheep He has?

He's a carpenter - does He have a good guess at how long it will take Him to carpenter something?
all things were made by Him - is time a created thing, or is time older than God?
so is He inside it? or is it inside Him?

Why don't SDA's ascribe deity to the prophet Michaiah who revealed Ahab's upcoming death?

After all nany beings could be called el. Angels are called elobim. But Iah is a shortened form of the divine name that appears in human names.

Most people do not take long flowery writings from Sproll or Graham on health or a million other topics and treat them like they are inspired by God or church doctrine. Some SDAs act like this.

I don't care much if a preacher writes a dull or flowery book on health. But it would bother me if people treated those writings as if they were important spiritual documents, kind of like the Bible. Not all SDAs are quite like that. Some seem to be.

Micah, a shortened form of Mikayah, means "who is like Yah?"

Well, if she was indeed a prophet, we must remember what the Scripture says about God's prophets:

"Believe in God, and thou shalt be established. Believe His prophets and thou shalt prosper."

I don't know a single person who's been hurt by reading EGW. The Health Message has proven to benefit countless people; the counsel on Christian lifestyle, marriage, rearing children, etc., are indispensable. Many Adventist preachers know that non-Adventist preachers are using EGW's writings because they hear them quoting from her writings, sometimes verbatim, but they can never admit where they are getting their info from, which is cool - as long as people are hearing and accepting truth, that's all that matters.

Wrong, sir. "Micah is derived from the Hebrew "Michaiah", and is a response to "who is like God", namely "who is a coward", a rhetorical question to which the answer is "none who trust in YHWH", and is meant as a show of trust in Him.

I'm not sold on "Who is as God" being interrogatory, but if that is so, I still have no problem applying it to Jesus because no one would ever agree such a name could ever be associated with a created being, right?

Because the prophet you speak of wasn’t appearing as an angel as Jesus did to Abraham, Moses, Manoah, Joshua, etc., when on those occasions the Angel appearing freely received worship, and rightly so.

He was an ordinary created human prophet.

Created angels refuse worship, as did the angel appearing to John, but God manifesting Himself as an Angel deserves all the worship and adoration available.

But the minute someone quotes EGW, everyone loses their minds SMH

I"ve never heard of non-SDA preachers quoting EGW. Do you know of any of her prophecies that came to pass?

Huh? That comes across as almost blasphemous. You are looking at the wrong name. That name, Micah, has an aleph, not a yodh, there at the end of the syllable. I am talking about Micah referenced in I Kings 22:8 and onward in the passage. The name translates as 'Who is like Yah', and 'Yah' is short for 'Yahweh.' It is much more explicitly referring to the Creator than the name Michael, since "el" shows up in words that reference the Creator, Yahweh, but also to other beings in addition to Yahweh in certain context



Of course we could. Micaiah was a human prophet. There are also multitudes of human beings named Michael, Michelle, Mikail, etc. on the earth today.

Btw, this is a strange comment, because Ellen G. White is a kind of historically obscure figure that most Christians have never heard of, and most people in most churches wouldn't know who she was if someone quoted her and mentioned her name. SDAs may not be aware of that.

I included a link to the article on "Micah". There, the Hebrew commentator says "Micah" is a shortened form of "Michaiah" and says it means "who is a coward" (Micah) as a response to "who is like God" (Michaiah). It's like one guy saying, "There's nobody like God" and another guy responding, "With God, we have nothing to fear". Nothing blasphemous about it.