Nature of Christ in the William L. H. Baker 1895 Letter of EGW
The 1895
William L. H. Baker letter of Ellen White on the Nature of Christ must be
understood with the following diagram in mind.
Separate the
Time zones with each individual: Adam I, us and Adam II.
Time A for Adam
I was when he was created perfect. Time A for us is when we are born with
propensities of disobedience. Note: This is before disobedience and is thus a
perfect situation of basically sinlessness.
Time A for Adam
II is when He was born in exactly the same sinful flesh as us as Romans 8:3 is
saying.
Time B is later
when Adam I sinned.
Time B for us
is later when we execute our choice and yield to the demands of the propensity
to disobedience. None succeeded to overcome this dilemma. If any human did,
they would have been Christ II.
Time B for
Christ is when He succeeded in His execution of His choices to always shun evil
or temptations and overcame where we did not.
When you read
statements of Ellen White, always ask whether she means at the birth of the
baby or later in adulthood when the person makes the fatal choices branding
them as sinners.