That's what Ellen said though, wasn't it? That Lucifer put God into a pickle by essentially hauling Him into Galactic Court after circulating throughout the Galaxy that God had been too rough on Adam and Eve and that no one really could keep God's Holy law. Its because of that charge that creature christ (AKA Michael the archangel) steps forward and volunteers to come to earth and live as a man animal to prove that God's holy law is not to hard to observe and that mankind can indeed keep God's holy law thereby proving that Lucifer is a liar?
The rub for this pork roast however is saturated with incredible RISK because if Jesus would have sinned Lucifer would have won the Galactic court Battle, creature christ would have eternally ceased to exist and Father God would have had to surrender planet earth along with the milky way - to Lucifer. The above scenario is alien to Scripture.
Charles S Longacre
IF it were impossible for the Son of God to make a mistake or commit a sin, then His coming into this world and subjecting Himself to temptations were all a farce AND mere mockery. IF it were possible for Him to yield to temptation and fall into sin, then He MUST have risked heaven and His very existence, and EVEN all eternity. That is exactly what the Scriptures AND the Spirit of Prophecy say Christ, the Son of God did do when He came to work out for us a plan of salvation from the curse of sin.
IF Christ "risked all," EVEN His ETERNAL EXISTENCE in heaven, then there was a possibility of His being overcome by sin, and IF overcome by sin, He would have gone into Joseph's tomb and neither THAT tomb nor any other tomb would EVER have been opened. All would have been lost and HE would have suffered "eternal loss," the loss of ALL He ever possessed &; His DIVINITY AND His humanity and heaven itself would have been "lost & eternally lost
It was possible for one of the God-head to be lost, and eternally lost - and IF that had happened, and it WAS possible to happen, "God, the Father", would still have remained as the One and only absolute and living God, reigning supreme over all the unfallen worlds, but with all the human race blotted out of existence on this earth.
The Deity of Christ’, paper presented to the Bible Research Fellowship Angwin, California January 1947, page 13 & 14)
Notice how above it says Christ could have "
LOST" His Divinity & how Longacre gloats that what he's there affirming is "EXACTLY" what Ellen White says in her capacity of a Prophet. Could anyone tell me, even in a SCENARIO OF FICTION, how it would be possible for God the Father to "
LOOSE HIS DEITY". I've never seen an Adventist do this because all Adventists (Christadelphians, Jehovah's Witnesses, WWCOG 7th day, SDA's, etc) absolutely believe The Father is ABSOLUTELY GOD but they don't extend the same for Christ. Christ was a husk or "Personality" (AKA a body) that was created in time that the Father actually instilled His own Deity into. Christ was free to test drive this "Deity" as long as He remained Loyal to Flesh Father.
Signs of the Time April 2, 1940
It is VITAL for every Christian TO KNOW that Jesus Christ MIGHT have sinned. The Master was not beyond the clutches of temptation. The Heaven-sent Gift could have been eternally lost and the doom of humanity would have been eternally sealed. Jesus Christ knew the pull of evil. "In that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted."
Signs of the Times Prophetic weekly 1933, Volume 60 No. 4
TO RESTORE MEN
God's plan of salvation was to reclaim a lost, bewildered world. Sin had degraded men, until vice had become a science and every type of evil was incorporated into the mind of man. When the heathen world had run its course of iniquity, when paganism and idolatry had engrossed the world, God sent forth His Son according to the plan, to restore men's rightful heritage as "sons of God." Jesus Christ took upon Himself the weakness, the tendencies, toward sin, that He might prove Himself a brother to His fellow men. His divine glory was hidden in humanity. "He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." Hebrews 2:16, 17. There was the danger of eternal loss in the plan. Jesus Christ MIGHT have sinned and the human race been lost. For He was tempted. He could have sinned!
Ellen White
The King of the universe summoned the heavenly hosts before Him, that in their presence He might set forth the true position of His Son and show the relation He sustained to all created beings. The Son of God shared the Father’s throne, and the glory of the eternal, self-existent One encircled both.
http://text.egwwritings.org/publicat...%22&resultId=7
Notice how one of the two "Beings" is ETERNAL and "SELF-EXISTENT" which one's glory encircled both Beings??? I think everyone knows the answer to that.
Ellen White, Review and Herald, Jan 14, 1909
We are to be partakers of knowledge. As I have seen pictures representing Satan coming to Christ in the wilderness of temptation in the form of a hideous monster, I have thought, How little the artists knew of the Bible! Before his fall, Satan was, next to Christ, the highest ANGEL in heaven