The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

spotless as when He left the courts of glory (Christ
and His Righteousness, pp. 28, 29).
The verbs Waggoner used were synonyms of
Ellen White's of seven years later: she said "rested"
and "yielded," and he said "harbored" and "waver,"
in the same syntax of expression. She said in 1895
that "not for one moment was there in Him an evil
propensity," and he wrote in 1889 that "not for a
moment" did His "Divine power... waver." It is
almost as if Ellen White were advising Baker that
if he stuck to Waggoner's precise 1889 expressions,
he would be safe.
4. Does the 1888 view of Christ's nature
make Him "altogether human, such an one as
ourselves; for it cannot be" (5BC 1128, 1129)?
Ellen White's expression is clear: she does not
object to making Christ "human" per se, for she is
not a Docetist. The key thought in this expression
of hers is "such an one as ourselves? Christ was
divine as well as "human," but we are merely
"altogether human" and not divine. The context of
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