The erroneous influence of SDA pro-trintiarian Max Hatton: The SOP being made of none effect.

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"Man was to bear God's image, both in outward resemblance and in character." (emphasis supplied) Patriarchs and Prophets, page 45. "Now I can see this was from the pen of Ellen White who had been conditioned to be a Semi-Arian. God looks something like me? How could a single human look something like the Great Spirit Trinity God who is everywhere present at the same time? The statement of our dear lady does fit the Semi-Arian God quite well, but certainly not the Trinitarian God! (Max Hatton, "Ellen G White and the Trinity Doctrine") That's quite the claim from Seventh-day Adventist minister Max Hatton isn't it? In this video, I bring forth a fact that certain of my SDA pro-trinitarian apologist friends try to deny. Yet it is true despite their insistence otherwise. Through trinitarian apologetics, a doctrine has entered into Seventh-day Adventism that is contrary to the Bible and the Spirit of prophecy. As James White once declared: "We invite all to compare the testimonies of the Holy Spirit through Mrs. W., with the word of God. And in this we do not invite you to compare them with your creed. That is quite another thing. The trinitarian may compare them with his creed, and because they do not agree with it, condemn them. The observer of Sunday, or the man who holds eternal torment an important truth, and the minister that sprinkles infants, may each condemn the testimonies’ of Mrs. W. because they do not agree with their peculiar views. And a hundred more, each holding different views, may come to the same conclusion. But their genuineness can never be tested in this way.” (James White, Review and Herald of the Sabbath, June 13, 1871) The erroneous doctrine that has come in is that of a formless God. It is due to trying to justify the concept that a unity of 3 persons is the 1 God of the Bible. I have heard several SDA leaders teach a formless god but one of the most influential proponents is the SDA pro-trinitarian Max Hatton. He denies the Bible truth that God has a shape (John 5:37) and so also did His pre-incarnate Son who existed in the form of God (Phil 2:6). He has rejected that mankind was created in the image and likeness of God the Father and His only begotten Son, His express image, (Gen 1:26; Heb 1:3) in a physical sense and thus men were made after the similitude of God (James 3:9). He questions how a human cannot look like the great spirit trinity god. Mr. Hatton also denies the plain teaching of the Spirit of prophecy that "when Adam came from the Creator's hand, he bore, in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a likeness to his Maker. “God created man in His own image” {Ed 15.1} and that both Adam and Eve "bore in outward resemblance the likeness of their Maker...." {Ed 20.2} Yet are any the SDA pro-trinitarians negating him? Did the SDA church fire Mr. Hatton and revoke his credentials like they have done to certain SDA ministers who teach that God begot a pre-incarnate Son in His express image? Not that I have seen. Quite the contrary actually, Mr. Hatton's book is promoted throughout Adventism and it appears that only SDA non-trinitarians are showing forth his errors. You can learn more about the truth about God and His pre-incarnate Son here through the object lesson of Adam and rib-made Eve. https://asitreads.com/2018-1-9-how-adam-and-eve-parallel-god-and-his-begotten-son/ As a disclaimer, I mentioned in this video that Max Hatton's book was endorsed by Focus Magazine which is produced by Andrews but I was mistaken. That is the wrong Focus Magazine. It was actually a different Focus Magazine that endorsed him, the one that was produced by The Adventist Publishing House in Stanborough Press. It is European and not from Andrews University.

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