Christ underived unborrowed
In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived. “He that hath the Son hath life.” 1 John 5:12. The divinity of Christ is the believer’s assurance of eternal life. DA 530.3
It is obvious that Ellen White was not for a moment suggesting that Christ received original, unborrowed, underived life from the Father. The very words imply that this life doesn’t come from someone else: it’s original and it is not derived from anyone.
The Lord Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity, a distinct person, yet one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven. He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the adoring homage of the angels was received by Him as His right.36SDA Bible Commentary 5:1126.
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In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived. “He that hath the Son hath life.” 1 John 5:12. The divinity of Christ is the believer’s assurance of eternal life. DA 530.3
Milian Lauritz Andreasen (June 4, 1876 – February 19, 1962), a Seventh-day Adventist theologian, pastor and author. was such a staunch non trinitarian that when he saw that statement in Desire of Ages he couldn’t believe that EGW wrote it. He went to her house in Elmshaven a decade later and only after that visit did he become trinitarian. Here’s his testimony:
“How astonished we were when Desire of Ages was first published, for it contained some things that we considered unbelievable; among others the doctrine of the Trinity, which was not generally accepted by the Adventists then. I was particularly interested, in the statement in Desire of Ages which at one time caused great concern to the denomination theologically: ‘In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived’ (p. 530). That statement may not seem very
revolutionary to you, but to us it was. We could hardly believe it. … I was sure Sister White had never written, ‘In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived.’ But now I found it in her own handwriting just as it had been published.” ML Andreasen
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