I find this particular quote to be especially disturbing.
To make a claim that evil doers can't be reconciled with the Living God, in light of God's conclusion that there is "none who does good, no, not one" (Psalm 53) is to reject the entire Gospel message.
That doesn't just show a lack of inspiration. It shows illiteracy in the magnitude of abject stupidity.
What was the Harmon family doing during their time in church before they were kicked out?
From what I understand this concept of Jesus' purpose of vindicating the Holy Law of God comes from "The Great Controversy Theme".
The rubric claims that Lucifer became despondent after Michael was able to attend the councils of God and he wasn't. Lucifer became enraged when he wasn't consulted about the formation of mankind and started communicating his dissatisfaction to other angels. After Adam and Eve transgress the commandment and get removed from Eden Lucifer makes a type of legal charge against Father God, claiming that no one could follow His Holy Law and that He was being unfair and cruel to Adam and Eve. Lucifer broadcasts this charge throughout the galaxies and by doing so puts Father God into a real pickle.
Something has to be done about this - Michael steps forward and volunteers to become man and prove that mankind could follow God's Holy Law thereby "vindicating it". There is real risk in the plan because if Michael fails he will eternally cease to exist after the Deity is extracted from the "Personality" or husk.
Ellen White, Signs of the Times, June 9, 1898
Had the head of Christ been touched, the hope of the human race would have perished. Divine wrath would have come upon Christ as it came upon Adam. Christ and the church would have been without hope.”
Ellen White
Because of sin, his posterity was born with inherent propensities of disobedience. But Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God. He took upon Himself human nature, and was tempted in all points as human nature is tempted. He could have sinned; He could have fallen,
Ellen White
The new tomb enclosed Him in its rocky chambers. If one single sin had tainted His character the stone would never have been rolled away from the door of His rocky chamber, and the world with its burden of guilt would have perished
Ellen White
Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. Then He could not have been placed in Adam's position; He could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. If we have in any sense a more trying conflict than had Christ, then He would not be able to succor us. But our Saviour took humanity, with all its liabilities. He took the nature of man, with the possibility of yielding to temptation. We have nothing to bear which He has not endured. . . . In man's behalf, Christ conquered by enduring the severest test. For our sake He exercised a self-control stronger than hunger or death.--The Desire of Ages, p. 117. {7ABC
Ellen White
The new tomb enclosed Him in its rocky chambers. If one single sin had tainted His character the stone would never have been rolled away from the door of His rocky chamber, and the world with its burden of guilt would have perished
Christ ONLY had ultimate power because He was a good Christ
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He had infinite power only because He was perfectly obedient to His Father's will.” (Ellen G. White, Manuscript 99, 1903, pp. 3, 4. "Christian Education in Our Schools", September 1, 1903, see also Selected Messages book 3, page 141, chapter 19, ‘The incarnation’)
If Christ was BAD and messed up he would
LOOSE the Deity Father God issued him.
Ellen White
Though Christ humbled Himself to become man, the Godhead was still His own. His Deity could not be lost WHILE He stood faithful and true to His loyalty. Surrounded with sorrow, suffering, and moral pollution, despised and rejected by the people to whom had been intrusted the oracles of heaven, Jesus could yet speak of Himself as the Son of man in heaven. He was ready to take once more His divine glory when His work on earth was done http://text.egwwritings.org/publicat...ost&resultId=1
The ramifications with all this looks really bad to me.
Ellen White affirmed it was IMPOSSIBLE for Deity to die or cease to exist and at the same time affirms that had Christ sinned he would have eternally ceased to exist - If Christ had sinned and rotted in the tomb never again to be aware in any sense yet it was impossible for Deity to die according to Ellen it has been proven Christ's deity was UNNATURAL to his Person - it would have had to be gifted - like a motorcycle endorsement on a State Drivers License. This is what the SDA Pioneers all claimed and all of Ellen's statements about this topic are compatible with the SDA anti-Trinitarians statements from 1854 to when Ellen White passed away.