The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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either Adam's or ours?" To what extent were<br />
her ideas of the nature of Christ taken from<br />
Anglicans Henry Melville and Octavius<br />
Winslow?<br />
<strong>The</strong> evidence is clear that she borrowed ideas<br />
and expressions from them, but she never<br />
recommended or endorsed their writings as she did<br />
those of Jones and Waggoner. In an excellent<br />
article published in the December 1989 Ministry<br />
Tim Poirier prints in parallel columns Ellen<br />
White's and Winslow's statements. Both Melville<br />
and Winslow were very perceptive in their defense<br />
of the perfect sinlessness of Christ. But neither of<br />
these godly Anglicans at that time could<br />
understand the relationship between Christ's<br />
righteousness and the cleansing of the sanctuary—<br />
a preparation for the coming of the Lord. Ellen<br />
White discerned that added light in the message of<br />
Jones and Waggoner, and rejoiced. She could<br />
gather all the help possible from the Anglican<br />
theologians in defining the sinlessness of Christ,<br />
and also embrace a more complete view than they<br />
could have understood.<br />
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