Human Nature Essentials for a proper
Investigation
Regardless whether the scholar is pre-lapsarian
or post-lapsarian, the following realities are to be part of the engine of
investigation.
Ellen White did believe that everyone can keep
the Sabbath. She also believed that you needed a relationship to God to keep it
proper.
She believed that all ten commandments could be
kept and should.
That sanctification cannot happen unless all
the commandments are kept.
That perfection can be attained on earth and
should be before the Close of Probation.
Perfection for her was not at the Second Coming
of Christ but before, spiritual perfection that is. Bodily perfection is at the
Second Coming.
Christians cannot entertain any form of sin in
their lives and maintain a proper relationship with God. Sin must be forsaken.
She did not believe that anyone who is a sinner
can save him/herself.
All became sinners and needed a Savior outside of
themselves.
When dealing with statements of Ellen White or
the Bible on the human nature of Christ, the following considerations are
necessary.
Whether the statement implies that the baby
born starts with an innate hereditary sin from Adam. Or, in alternative, not in
the baby but due to the first individual sins as teenager becomes a barrier
between them and God.
Even in the Bible, when Psalm 51 says that in
sin did my mother conceive me, the question is whether it is within the body of
the Baby or the Baby’s body in the environment and surroundings of sin.
Is sinfulness innate since baby or later in
teenager years “youth’.
Is sinfulness acquired or inherited?
Does she mean the unable aspects of a human in
a state of sin before conversion or any time afterwards as well?
Was perfection possible in the Bible and is it
a mark or goal?