What do you mean? - remember this?

"We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through suffering." Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, a new principle of mental and spiritual power was to be brought to man, who, through association with divinity, was to become one with God. Christ, the redeemer and restorer, was to sanctify and purify man's mind, making it a power that would draw other minds to Himself. It is His purpose, by the elevating, sanctifying power of the truth, to give men nobility and dignity. He desires His children to reveal His character, to exert His influence, that other minds may be drawn into harmony with His mind. "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. . . . For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power." {ST, September 24, 1902 par. 3}

The first sentence, here, is not in the printed quarterly, btw. check here, http://absg.adventist.org

It is similar to the first question at the end of the lesson, but is rather more strident.

It's historical reference is simply wrong: our early church's teaching was firmly and decidedly against the doctrine. Our beliefs, on the other hand, shouldn't really be "unrelenting", for the Bible is our rule of faith.

M: The one point that is brushed aside as unimportant is the fact the Father, under the non-trinitarian model, spent eternity in a dark and void universe all by Himself. Not until Jesus came along and began creating things did the Father have others to love and enjoy. The idea that the Father spent eternity alone is too unimaginable to believe.

C: Yes, quite unimaginable! Two things are a mystery about God, no, three things. The begotten Sonship of Christ's eternal pre-existence, his incarnation as the Son of man, and the perfection of his human character of Godliness in our sinful flesh. Thus, we accept that the Father is the God and Father of Christ, Christ is the Son of God and equal to him, as announced to the heavenly host before Lucifer fell, and we receive the Holy Spirit from them now that Christ is ascended to heaven - not guarranteed when he was incarnated, for he took infinite risk of losing his divinity when becoming a man should he sin - that we may live for God through Christ Jesus our Lord.

What do you mean? - remember this?

Yes, precisely how Jesus became a human is an unexplainable mystery. Also, how He avoided sinning during the ages of non-accountability is equally as mysterious. However, I don't understand why you think Jesus' "eternal pre-existence" is a mystery. Do you believe Jesus is eternal in the same sense the Father is eternal? For example, do you believe Jesus has always existed in the same sense the Father has always existed? Or, do you believe Jesus had a beginning, a time when He proceeded from the Father?

The direct statement of Jesus, "I came forth from the Father," reads literally, "I came out of the Father." Put with this, his testimony in John 10:38, "The Father is in me, and I in him," we have Jesus' personal witness that he truly was "begotten of the Father", as John says in 1:14. (Sabbath School Lesson Oct 7, 1936)

So the Catholic church is right? Who or what made Christ equal? When?

In the passages we have studied here, we find that Christ was with the Father "before the world was", "from the days of eternity", "before the foundation of the world", "before all things". He was therefore no part of creation, but was "begotten of the Father" in the days of eternity, and very God himself.

The Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, is truly God in infinity, but not in personality. (MS 116, Dec 19, 1905 - 6 years after Desire of Ages, also in "The Upward Look", p.367

The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty, yet Christ and the Father are one. (Letter 32, 1899, MS 140, 1903, 5BC p.1129)

Christ is our Example. He was next to God in the heavenly courts. But he came to this earth to live among men. (Letter 48, 1902

The Word existed as a divine Being, even as the eternal Son of God, in union and oneness with his Father. (RH, Apr 5, 1906)

He was the Word of God - God's thought made audible. (DA 19)

Christ wept at Satan's woe, but told him, as the mind of God, that he could never be received into heaven. (1SP, p.29)

From eternity there was complete unity between the FAther and the Son. They were two yet little short of being identical; two in individuality, yet one in spirit and heart and character. (YI, Dec 16, 1897)

Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father—one in nature, in character, in purpose—the only being that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. (PP 34.1)

M: Do you believe Jesus is eternal in the same sense the Father is eternal? For example, do you believe Jesus has always existed in the same sense the Father has always existed? Or, do you believe Jesus had a beginning, a time when He proceeded from the Father?

C: Mountainman, your latest question to me reiterates that it's a mystery: not only did the Word of God proceed from the Father "in the days of eternity" - as our church publications stated consistently throughout the lifetime of Ellen White and after, but the Father was equally never alone in eternity. . . That leaves a mystery of infinite proportions we shouldn't delve into for we cannot understand it.

"From eternity there was a complete unity between the Father and the Son. They were two yet little short of being identical; two in individuality, yet one in spirit, and heart, and character. (YI, Dec 16, 1897)