14/01/2026
A new organization would be established."
General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists.
Just one year later, prophecy began to be fulfilled.
Today there are lots of mistruths, misconceptions and distortion of truth about our Pioneers and what their system of beliefs were. People became Seventh-day Adventist because of our beliefs in the early days. If they knew what was going on today, they wouldn't even recognize this denomination. Doesn't that seem odd to you? After all, if people in the Lutheran church changed what Martin Luther believed and taught, they couldn't call themselves Lutherans. Well today we have the modern Adventist denomination who are Seventh-day Adventist in name only.
"Adventist beliefs have changed over the years...Most startling is the teaching regarding Jesus Christ.... Many of the Pioneers including James White, J.N. Andrews, Uriah Smith, and J.H. Waggoner, held to an A***n or Semi-A***n view. That is that the Son at some point in time, before the creation of our world was generated by the Father. The Trinitarian understanding of God, now part of our fundamental beliefs, was not generally held by the early Adventists. Even today, a few do not subscribe to it." William Johnson, editor, Adventist Review, January 6, 1994
The above statement by Mr. Johnson is incorrect when he tries to fit the founders of the faith into a box called A***n or Semi-A***n. Trinitarian-ism was definitely not held by the early Adventists for at least 80 years. That should say something.
"Most of the founders of Seventh-day Adventism would not be able to join the church today if they had to subscribe to the denominations Fundamental Beliefs. More specifically, most would not be able to agree to belief #2, which deals with the doctrine of the Trinity." George Knight, Ministry Magazine, October 1993, p. 10
To correct Mr. Knight, all of the founders would not be able to join the church today, not just most. Imagine this being done to Martin Luther. They wouldn't be Lutherans any more. This should be startling to the congregation to learn this fact. And they should be searching why, and asking why.