SDA Leaders Claim Power to Change Christian Doctrine

Notice right off what the Popes of Rome have been declaring for centuries regarding their so called infallible power to change God's Word and how they think doctrine is defined. And yes, this is why the Pope still thinks he can do it. As prophesied and as expected, the demons are very active in Rome. "The Roman Pontiff and the bishops, as authentic teachers, preach to the People of God the faith which is to be believed and applied in moral life. It is also incumbent on them to pronounce on moral questions that fall within the natural law and reason. The infallibility of the Magisterium of the Pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Article 3, Section III, #2050 & 2051.

With that said, is it possible that like many other agreements between the Pope and SDA leaders that I've shared in a series of recent videos, (Also see this https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7kUli-mCh-IwOB4EwwumgiKYpW-ts6N ) do the leaders in the SDA church also believe that they have the power to change Bible doctrine so as to better promote their creed over and above the truth as it is defined in Scripture? Notice this…

"…the General Conference of the Church (in session), the only body having authority to alter the structure of the church either in doctrine or organization." -Court Transcript of United States vs the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs the Pacific Press Publishing Association and the General Conference, Opening Brief for the Church, Civil Case #74-2025 CBR, December 4, 1974, p 17.

And so yes, it appears that along with all the other Vatican-inspired changes in the SDA church, they also believe their leaders have infallible power to change Christian doctrine. And for those that don't believe they would go so far as to do this in the SDA church and especially when it comes to their Statement of Faith. They did just that not too long after making this statement in a US courtroom. Check out this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1qZoBgoWQE)  when you get time.

LIKE ROME, THE SDA CHURCH NOW PLACES THEIR CREED ABOVE THE BIBLE:
"In the professedly Christian world many turn away from the plain teachings of the Bible and build up a creed from human speculations and pleasing fables, and they point to their tower as a way to climb up to heaven. ..The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8; 18:2) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days." -Patriarchs & Prophets p. 24.1

"If I depend on a teacher to expound to me, and he should guess at its meaning, or desire to have it so on account of his sectarian creed, or to be thought wise, then his guessing, desire, creed, or wisdom is my rule, and not the Bible." -Review & Herald November 25, 1884 par. 24
 
"The Bible, and the Bible alone, is to be our creed." -Review & Herald December 15, 1885 par. 15
"The false watchmen are the first to fall." -Maranatha 296.3

AND REMEMBER:
Isaiah 8:20, "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

Continuing from last month...

Excerpts from the oath of the Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest "I will defend this doctrine and his Holiness' rights and customs against all usurpers of the Protestant authority whatsoever. ...I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise, all or any of his Holiness' agents, in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extirpate the Protestant doctrine and to destroy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding, I may be permitted by dispensation to assume any heretical religion for the propagation of the Mother Church's interest. ...I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals. -Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction, as recorded in Congressional Record of the U.S.A., House Bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-3216.

What this is actually saying is, the priest will defend the pope and Roman dogma by infiltrating as pastors in all the other religions so as to wage war whenever the pope deems it necessary to further the Vatican's interest. When I look around and see all the wars occurring now in nations that refuse to bow to the pope, I find it amazing how soon mankind forgets all the unrest Catholicism fostered when they killed hundreds of millions of Christians that refused to bow to their unbiblical standards during the inquisition. In regards to John Paul II's comments about the EU constitution, Time magazine then said…

“Recent statements by the Polish Episcopate have fueled apprehension. In late April the bishops urged that the new constitution exclude any provision for the separation of church and state. Instead, they suggested, "exceptional emphasis should be laid on the need for cooperation between the state and the Catholic Church." TIME May 20, 1991 "Five Who Could Be Vice President" Pg 40 "Power to The Pulpit"

I go into much more detail about Rome's desire for a global church & State in my March of 2005 Newsletter. Directly after John Paul II died, Joseph Ratzinger, under the alias of Benedict 16 stated the following,

[Sunday] “is the identity of the Christian community and the center of his life and mission”, that “we cannot live without joining together on Sunday” -(Pastoral Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Bari for the Closing of the 24th Italian National Eucharistic Congress, Homily of Pope Benedict XVI, Esplanade of Marisabella, Sunday, May 29, 2005.) “Social disorder, war, injustice and violence” can only be countered “by renewed appreciation and respect for the universal moral law [Sunday observance], that only by recognizing that law can the world have “dignity, life and freedom” with “conditions of justice and peace” in all the communities of the world, and that the promotion and defense of this law is what “must govern relations between nations and peoples in the pursuit of the common good of the human family...within the international community.” (Address of Pope Benedict XVI to H.E. Mr Francis Rooney, New Ambassador of the United States of America to the Holy See, Saturday, November 12, 2005.)

 

ANSWER:The passage you speak of is actually found in Matthew 12:31.

• Matthew 12:31, "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."

The easiest way I know how to explain it is to say, those that purposely deny the Holy Spirit, and the Truth He proclaims, even though they have evidence it is from God, these are they that blaspheme His Spirit. Their sin is so enticing that they purposely ignore His Spirit's call to their hearts to repent. A good example would be someone that finds Christ, starts to walk with Him, but then decides later to stop following Him because they want to go back to their old lives. Paul speaks of such a person in Hebrews 10:26 where he says, "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"

Sister White says the following on this... 
" Whatever the sin, if the soul repents and believes, the guilt is washed away in the blood of Christ; but he who rejects the work of the Holy Spirit is placing himself where repentance and faith cannot come to him. It is by the Spirit that God works upon the heart; when men willfully reject the Spirit, and declare it to be from Satan, they cut off the channel by which God can communicate with them. When the Spirit is finally rejected, there is no more that God can do for the soul. . . .  {AG 215.2}  

 It is not God that blinds the eyes of men or hardens their hearts. He sends them light to correct their errors, and to lead them in safe paths; it is by the rejection of this light that the eyes are blinded and the heart hardened. Often the process is gradual, and almost imperceptible. Light comes to the soul through God's word, through His servants, or by the direct agency of His Spirit; but when one ray of light is disregarded, there is a partial benumbing of the spiritual perceptions, and the second revealing of light is less clearly discerned. So the darkness increases, until it is night in the soul. . . .  {AG 215.3}  

     It is not necessary for us deliberately to choose the service of the kingdom of darkness in order to come under its dominion. We have only to neglect to ally ourselves with the kingdom of light. . . . The most common manifestation of the sin against the Holy Spirit is in persistently slighting Heaven's invitation to repent. Every step in the rejection of Christ is a step toward the rejection of salvation, and toward the sin against the Holy Spirit.  {AG 215.4}  

     When the soul surrenders itself to Christ, a new power takes possession of the new heart. A change is wrought which man can never accomplish for himself. It is a supernatural work, bringing a supernatural element into human nature. The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall be known in it but His own. A soul thus kept in possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of Satan."  {AG 215.5}  

continuing from last month...

9. Paul wished to present the church as what kind of woman?
2 Corinthians 11:2_________________________________________

10. What other wonder appeared in heaven?
Revelation 12:3 ___________________________________________

11. Who is the dragon?
Revelation 12:9 ___________________________________________

12. The woman brought forth a man child who was to do what?
Revelation 12:5 ___________________________________________
This child, who would one day rule the nations “with a rod of iron,” was Jesus (See Revelation 19:15).

13. The dragon stood before the woman, intending to do what?
Revelation 12:4 ___________________________________________
Matthew 2:13-16 tells the story of how Satan tried to kill Jesus as a baby.

14. After Jesus went back to heaven (verse 5), what did Satan then do to the church?

Revelation 12:13 __________________________________________

15. Where did the true church then have to flee?
Revelation 12:14 __________________________________________

16. How long was the church in the wilderness?
Revelation 12:6 ___________________________________________
The 1260 years of papal supremacy extended from 538 to 1798 (See the TLD Information Booklet, The Man Who Claimed to Change God’s Law).  Due to the corruption of the Roman church and its persecution against dissenters, the true church was forced to go into seclusion during this time. Although not recognized by the world, Christ’s faithful followers, among the rocks of the mountains, maintained their loyalty to the truth. Foremost among those who resisted Rome’s attacks were the Waldenses of the southern European Alps, who for hundreds of years preserved the pure Scriptures and honored the true Sabbath.

The church, however, was not to remain in obscurity for ever. Just as surely as it went into the wilderness, it would come out. Christ’s church, the pillar and ground of the truth, had a mission which was to last even unto the end of the world. Therefore we must look for that church to visibly appear again after 1798 in order to complete its work.
But among the hundreds of religious organizations in existence today, how are we to recognize and identify the true church? Fortunately, we are not left to guess. The word of God has supplied a clear description.

To be continued