The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

life and death and resurrection.
3. Their insistence (and Ellen White's) that
righteousness by faith is the "third angel's
message in verity" would have to be
abandoned, for "the faith of Jesus" that the third
angel calls for would cease to exist if Christ
took a sinless nature with only the sinless
infirmities of our weakened physical organism.
Adam did not have faith nor did he need it in
his sinless state.
(e) In an effort to show that Ellen White did not
give them "a blank check in theological matters,"
one writer cites three of her statements: their
position was not "perfect" in 1886; "some things
presented in reference to the law in Galatians ... do
not harmonize with the understanding I have had of
this subject," and "some interpretations of Scripture
given by Dr. Waggoner I do not regard as correct"
(Ms. 15,1888). This sounds like we have a "blank
check" for disregarding anything of their message
we may not like. But the contextual evidence gives
quite a different impression. As to whether or not
they were ever "perfect" is irrelevant to the
86