This comment seems out of line.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I don't know of any anti-trinitarian who would give any credence to such a claim. The anti-trinitarian position has been clear and settled from the early days. "A survey of other Adventist writers during these year, reveals that, to a man, they rejected the Trinity, yet with equal unanimity they upheld the divinity of Christ." Doctrine of the Trinity in the SDA denomination, 311.

"Most of the founders of Seventh=day Adventism would not be able to join the church today if they had to subscribe to the denomination's Fundamental Beliefs...More specifically, most would not be able to agree to belief number 2, which deals with the doctrine of the Trinity..." George Knight, Ministry Magazine, October 1993, p. 10

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Of course not. No such claim was made. Christ was the Son of God, before creation, before Satan's fall.

The Father created all things through His Son. They created the angels, including Lucifer, the planets and all earth's inhabitants.

"And I saw that when GOD said to his SON, Let us make man in our image, Satan was jealous of JESUS."
(Capitals in original - 1 Spiritual Gifts p, 17. 1858)

Ellen White placed this vision upon the very first page of her original Great Controversy series. The Sonship of Christ is a pillar of her work, as with the Bible.

"Those who derided His claim to be the Son of God are speechless now." Great Controversy 643.

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So yes you were defending the "prominent Adventist author [who]teaches the idea that the Father created Jesus a long time ago, then promoted Him into the Godhead.

And yes, that is putting Christ on the same level as Lucifer, only that Christ was exalted and Lucifer wasn't. Which is heresy.

Christ's "exaltation" before the angel's did not change His position.

But when Lucifer began to agitate this idea, God the Father called an assembly and showed them Christ's true exalted position.

"The King of the universe summoned the heavenly hosts before Him, that in their presence He might set forth the true position of His Son" [PA 36]
"There had been no change in the position or authority of Christ. Lucifer's envy and misrepresentation and his claims to equality with Christ had made necessary a statement of the true position of the Son of God; but this had been the same from the beginning. Many of the angels were, however, blinded by Lucifer's deceptions. {PP 38.1}

So that "exaltation" was not a promotion or "change in position or authority of Christ. It was to show the angels that the member of the Godhead Who was their Leader was equal with God the Father! He was indeed God.

Christ was NOT created or pro-created.
His was life un-originated and unborrowed.
There is NO need to force the human finite concept of "a son" unto the Divine relationship of "Father and Son".

George's comment seems out of line, too. The church is not to have any creed other than the Bible, per Ellen White.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

George Knight is probably the leading historian of the SDA Church. Though often out of line, at least here he speaks a truth in Ministry magazine (the official Church journal for pastors). But as a Church spokesperson and educator, he goes on record that Church doctrine has changed.

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Agreed. Thus there is one baptismal vow to join the Church:

"I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. ...and he baptized him." (Acts 8:37,38)

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Dedication may have missed the first pages of Patriarchs & Prophets,
where the author is laying the groundwork.

Here EGW quotes Proverbs 8:22-30 as spoken by Christ Himself.

"The Lord possessed me..."
"I was set up..."
"I was brought forth..."
"Then I was by him as one brought up with him..."
"I was daily his delight..."

Patriarchs & Prophets p. 34

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