Revelation 7:1-3 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

How do these angels cause harm? The stop doing what they are doing. Satan is the destroyer. God is the restorer.

"It is not merely..."
That says the ATONEMENT (notice it speaks of the whole atonement, not just the sacrifice) is not limited to ONLY one function it includes the whole aspect of atonement.


This quote does NOT do away with the need for Christ's death to pardon (legally) sin. It enlarges the WHOLE, it does not SEGRAGATE the two.

Notice --
1)not only upon us (the legal aspect)
2) also in our hearts and characters (changed life)


"NOT ONLY" It doesn't stand alone -- both are essential.
She is not segregating the two.
The first makes the second possible.

Green - read about God's retributive punishment in The Great Controversy chapter 1. "Jesus declared to the listening disciples the judgments that were to fall upon apostate Israel, and especially the retributive vengeance that would come upon them for their rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah. Unmistakable signs would precede the awful climax. The dreaded hour would come suddenly and swiftly. {GC 25.4}
Christ saw in Jerusalem a symbol of the world hardened in unbelief and rebellion, and hastening on to meet the retributive judgments of God. {GC 22.1}

How did God pour his "retributive vengeance" on Jerusalem? He withdrew His hand of protection. Romans 1 describes what God does. And it is repeated all through the Old Testament. Example:
Deuteronomy 32:22-30
22 My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.
23 " 'I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.
24 They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.
25 War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26 I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
27 But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'
28 "Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.
29 They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.
30 Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The LORD, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.

I do not read the same way as you. But you do not have the same concept of what transgression of the law is as I have. You view the law as an enacted prescriptive or proscriptive set of rules. I see the law as descriptive, just as we have the law of gravity. Gravity by the way, is one of God's laws.

No you do not understand how I view sin.
You place me entirely in the camp of those who reject the transforming power of Christ in order to build your straw man that there is no legal aspect to the atonement.

Sin, by the way deals with MORAL laws of character, motives, desires and worship, etc. not with the laws of gravity.

God allowing the outworking of sin in the course of history does not negate the fact that at times God does step in to erase SIN by destroying sinners.
(Sodom, Korah, the flood)

And when sin has fully demonstrated its utter evilness, when even unrepenting sinners realize God is just, then God will erase sin forever by fully destroying everything and everyone that clings to it and refused the saving grace of Christ.

You have not read all the quotes I've posted or you do not remember them. Look back at the quotes about "holy flesh". One quote I posted was this: If those who speak so freely of perfection in the flesh, could see things in the true light, they would recoil with horror from their presumptuous ideas. {2SM 32.2}. Recoil with horror? Horror of what? In my study of genetics, I can confirm this statement is 100% true! Our genome has been highjacked. At least, the very minimum 50% of our DNA is not original. And the latest estimates this may be as high as 90%.

The Scriptures teach us to seek for the sanctification to God of body, soul, and spirit. In this work we are to be laborers together with God. Much may be done to restore the moral image of God in man, to improve the physical, mental, and moral capabilities. Great changes can be made in the physical system by obeying the laws of God and bringing into the body nothing that defiles. And while we cannot claim perfection of the flesh, we may have Christian perfection of the soul.{2SM 32.3} This perfection of soul is not a legal process.

When human beings receive holy flesh, they will not remain on the earth, but will be taken to heaven. While sin is forgiven in this life, its results are not now wholly removed. It is at His coming that Christ is to "change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body" (Philippians 3:21). . . .  {2SM 33.3}

Well, I think genetics has explanations to many of the difficult verses in the Bible.
A plant has no volition. But can a plant have sin? From the genetic view, absolutely. Thorns and thistles are the result of Satan's engeneous methods of "amalgamation". This can only be interpreted as genetic engineering.
Why does a cactus have thorns? It is in the DNA, and it was added to the DNA.
I've answered your questions. You have demanded a yes or no answer to guestions that do not have yes or no answers. You don't like that.
Tendencies to wrong are inherited. If it is inherited, then it is in the DNA. Do you agree or not?

What drives motives and desires and worship? How is it related to the brain? Are chemical reactions happening in the brain that drives these? Do neural receptors in the brain have any influence on motives and desires? ALL actions of the brain are dependant on the physiological functions of the brain. You can not divorce the moral function for the physiology. If I cut out the frontal lobes of your brain, will your character change? Absolutely. Once of the strongest support for our SDA health message is its effect on the brain. Sin deals with all laws, animate and inanimate. Sin is transgression of any of God's laws.