Here's an interesting reference that suggests that the General Conference doesn't have any control of Adventist hospitals.
Published: August 18, 2005:
Checking the Adventist Review Online, ran across an interview conducted by Jeff Scoggins, who is a communications project manager for the Office of Global Mission at the 7th Day Adventist world headquarters.
He interviewed Leland Kaiser a healthcare consultant.
Here are some quotes from Mr. Kaiser.
"What I am suggesting is that a healthcare organization set aside 10% of their profits at the end of the year."
Excuse me, aren't not-for-profit 7th Day Adventist hospitals supposed to be not-for-profit?
Leland Kaiser goes on to say that not-for-profit 7th Day Adventist hospitals "resent the intrusion of the General Conference into the way they run their business.."
Note the word "business" that's different than their mission statement.
And getting back to young Rodney Vega the son of a 7th Day Adventist Pastor, who was apparently denied care by not-for-profit 7th Day Adventist Florida Hospital, simply because he was uninsured, that means when the #2 leader of the 7th Day Adventist Church apologized for what happened, it meant nothing. A simple PR stunt-because his hospitals "resent the intrusion of the General Conference into the way they run their business, according to Mr. Kaiser.
Hospitals acting under the auspices of the 7th Day Adventist Church.
A final quote from Mr. Kaiser.
"The Adventist churches are not built as being interested in their communities. If I go to a mayor or state representative and say `who is really helping you? Who's out there trying to grapple with issues-with poverty and ignorance and crime and disease?' You'll never hear them say, `The Adventist Church.' If there's any church that's mentioned, it'll be the Catholic Church."
So if he's right not-for-profit 7th Day Adventist hospitals are not really acting on behalf of the 7th Day Adventist Church.
If they have become a rogue operation, simply interested in making profits instead of serving our Lord Jesus Christ why doesn't the Church publicly censure them?
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In response to the last question, I'd answer by saying that the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists are prostituting themselves for the ungodly purpose of maintaining the illusion of there being peace in the family, an entirely political strategy. I don't know the full extent of their treason and prostitution yet but consider how the church does support and promote the spiritualistic teachings of Leland Kaiser
through Adventist Health Professionals Conferences.
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Cowardice and compromise must be the only solution that the Adventist hierarchy can see. That's my theory. I believe it's reasonable to conjecture that there's a symbiotic relationship between the leaders of Loma Linda Medical Center and the leaders of Loma Linda University.
David P. McMahon wrote:
But the most remarkable revival of Waggonerian-like views on the atonement has taken place in the Division of Religion at Loma Linda University. In this department are those who repudiate the historic Christian doctrine of the substitutionary atonement in order to embrace "the moral influence theory." In fact, the moral influence theory has widely permeated West-Coast American Adventism.
It has such a stranglehold on the church's principal financial base that the leaders of the church appear paralyzed and frightened to touch it. [5]
Didn't we have the exact same relationship between the church hierarchy and the leaders of the medical center in Battle Creek, Michigan, which was following the doctrines of demons in Kellogg's day?