Quoting from The Great Controversy pg 483 (1888) Ellen G. White 1888GC,pg.483 “As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come into review before God…..when any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven , their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God’s remembrance.” Spirit of Prophecy page 311, vol. 4, Ellen G. White “Day after day, passing into eternity, bears its burden of records for the books of heaven. Words once spoke, deeds once done, can never be recalled….our acts, our words, even our most secret motives, all have their weight in deciding our destiny for weal or woe. Though they may be forgotten by us, they will bear their testimony to justify or condemn. They go before us into the judgment.” If we take these words of EGW at face value not only here but it dozens of other places, we seem to have a contradiction to the plain teaching of Scripture. How do I deal with this problem.EGW tells us that people will be lost if they do not keep the Sabbath! The visions given to Ellen White at the outset of her mission brought the importance of the seventh-day Sabbath prominently into view as the testing truth, which in the last days would divide the inhabitants of the earth into two classes-those who obey God and will be eternally saved and those who reject his law and will be eternally lost. The attitude of the individual toward the seventh-day Sabbath would be the determining factor. -Selected Messages, Book 3 (1980), page 380, paragraph 2, Chapter Title: Lessons From Meeting the Sunday Law Crisis of the Late 1880's and Early 1890's. To summarize: Ellen G. White wrote many times that our behavior determines our destiny. Our “perfect” or “imperfect” obedience to the “laws of God”, determine our salvation. 1. Both Jesus and Paul said I would never face the condemnation of judgment. (John 5:24, Rom. 8:1, and the believer will not ever perish. (John 10:28) 2. In Jeremiah 31:34, Hebrews 8:12, 10:17, the central tenant for the New Covenant that God makes with His believers is that God will not and cannot remember our sin ever again. 3. If I am made perfect in His sight “once and for all time”, why should any future sin bring any possibility of condemnation and were not all my sins yet future when Christ died for me? 4. If a believer is already “sealed by the Spirit until the day of redemption”……and “blessed with every spiritual blessing” (Eph. 4:30. 1:3) why do I need further review by Jesus at the Investigative Judgment to determine if I am “worthy of eternal life?” 5. Does not Romans 8 say that I am already predestined, called justified and glorified? And then Paul goes on to say that none can bring charges against God’s elect nor separate the believer from God’s love. 6. If Titus 3:5 says that salvation is “not by works of righteous which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us”, how can our works be a factor in salvation as EGW says they are? WWW.Ellenlied.com
