TruthHunter wrote:How is using the courts and Federal marshal's defending "the reputation and good name" of the SDA church?
By "the reputation and good name" of the SDA church, I simply mean what Christ meant in Luke 6:26:
"Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." The SDA church is taking care of it's own special interests in the exact same manner that worldly powers go about maintaining their own influence and control. This is what the world and the church expects.
TruthHunter wrote:He now has more publicity and sympathy than he ever would otherwise.
Ellen G. White wrote: "At this time God's chosen all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out and endured the persecution with us." EW 33.
I see no evidence that any of God's chosen people even suspect that Walter McGill stands for truth. I believe that McGill represents fraud, deceit and
the most fanatical faction of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
"Some have fanciful views which blind their eyes to important, vital points of truth, leading them to place their own fanciful inferences upon a level with vital truth. The appearance of such, and the spirit which attends them, makes the Sabbath which they profess very objectionable to the sensible unbeliever. It would be far better for the progress and success of the third angel's message if such persons would leave the truth." —
Testimonies For the Church, Vol. 1. p. 413.
"There are little companies continually rising who believe that God is only with the very few, the very scattered, and their influence is to tear down and scatter that which God's servants build up. Restless minds who want to be seeing and believing something new continually are constantly rising, some in one place and some in another, all doing a special work for the enemy, yet claiming to have the truth. They stand separate from the people whom God is leading out and prospering, and through whom He is to do His great work. They are continually expressing their fears that the body of Sabbathkeepers are becoming like the world, but there are scarcely two of these whose views are in harmony. They are scattered and confused, and yet deceive themselves so much as to think that God is especially with them. …
"This class do not know what they really believe, or the reasons for their belief. They are ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." —
Testimonies For the Church, Vol. 1. pp. 417- 418.