Yes, this is a very disturbing thing to see in male SDA leaders, and for good reason.
In Genesis 1 it is obvious that in number the ‘God(s)’ that created humankind as a ‘parable’ of Themselves wish to be seen as an ideal ‘Family’. So, you might ask, ‘Where’s the kid ?’
The ‘kid’ is the ‘. . . and . . .’ between ‘male . . .’ and '. . . ‘female’. The ‘kid’ is the ‘one flesh’ formed from both ‘male’ and ‘female’ DNA. The ‘kid’ is the ‘marriage’ of ‘male’ and ‘female’ expressed in ‘flesh’, and all together they are ‘ONE’ family ‘UN-IT’ of 3, just like the Creators wished to be understood. So, belittling any 1 or more member of that family unit representation in humanity also belittles the whole, united ‘God Family’. (Leave the 'LGBT. . . ’ issue out of this for now. As you will see, SDA males that claim to abhor such ‘physical’ conditions in others, are themselves more than willing to adopt a ‘spiritual’ condition of the same exact, lonesome ‘image’ of ‘spiritual unisex’ in order to get their own way . . . .)
As a woman, Ellen could not even vote, or in some cases own ‘property’ during her ‘Victorian Era’ lifetime. Women in her times were ‘property’. So, Ellen could not safely come right out and say it, but the ‘Son of God’ or ‘Seed of God’, in the case of the ‘Word of God’ who was ‘made flesh’, was represented in the human family ‘God’-parable by the ‘mother’ of a human family. It is obvious that ‘He’/‘She’ could not be the ‘Father’, since the Christ, ‘Him’-self, on Earth, referred to ‘Our Father, Who is in Heaven’.
( Like Jacob lost his beloved ‘ewe’, ‘Rachel’, near Bethlehem, in order to gain a ‘Son of my right’ (‘Ben -Jamin’), just so the ‘Our Heavenly Father’ of ‘born again’ ‘Christ-ians’ is forever, also, a ‘Heavenly Widower’ after gifting ‘Immanuel’ – ‘God with us’ – to humanity ‘from the foundation of the world’ in ‘spirit’, in ‘promise’, then 2,000 years ago at Bethlehem, and for the rest of eternity. )
So, how did Ellen make it clear that the position of the ‘Word’ of God which accomplished the desires of the ‘Father’ in ‘Creation’ was to be understood as the ‘female’ of a ‘married’ human family, who assisted Adam as an equal partner in ‘being fruitful and multiplying’ ?
See Patriarchs and Prophets page 34, then skip right over to page 46 and compare the 2 pages side-by-side, because they are meant to be. Ellen, the SDA ‘SOP’, uses the exact same ideas and terminology to describe the ideal ‘equal’ relationship between the Father and the Word, as she does to describe the ideal ‘equal’ relationship between the ‘sexes’ in the prototypical human marriage of ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’, and both marriages were for the purpose of re-creating, of ‘multiplying’, images of themselves in the universe. That means that that ‘Holy Spirit’ – which is mentioned in such miraculous Biblical ‘birth’ accounts concerning both DNA reproduction of ‘flesh’, and in the ‘born again’ process of reconceiving ‘minds’ ‘by beholding’ the Cross-scene – can only be represented in a human ‘married’ family ‘un-it’ of a minimum of 3 individuals . . . as being the ‘kid’. ‘Father-Kid-Mother’ – ‘At-one’, ‘as-one’.
So – just as I’ve seen others also refer to the cascading problems that arise among SDAs over a misunderstanding of this ‘family image’ of God – if any one member of a ‘family’ un-it (‘one-it’) is belittled by SDAs, the rest of the family will inevitably be, also.
The recent case of the anti-WO SDA pastor, Daniel Mesa, is living proof of how belittling the ‘mother’ – the ‘Word’ of both Creation and inspired Scriptures that became ‘flesh’ 2,000 years ago, as ‘God with us’ – then leads to belittling the ‘kid’ – the ‘Holy Spirit’ . . . all so that the ‘Father’ must lose not only ‘Rachel’, but his ‘Son of my right’, and ‘reign’ supreme as a Heavenly Widower over no other family at all as the lonesomest type of ‘ONE god’ possible.
The first and only time I witnessed a presentation by Mesa, he was trying to elevate the position of mere created ‘angels’ by twisting the ‘Word’ of Scripture – to make it seem so. . . just like ‘Lucifer’ in the ‘Great Divorce’ battle with the Christ ?
Tell me, where in the current SDA church – from the top, down – is the ‘Omega of Apostasy’ NOT proudly, blindly, destroying the ‘family’ ‘Image of God’ in humanity ?
If Danny Shelton could justly claim ‘Spiritual Adultery’ as an excuse for erasing his equal partner in creating 3ABN – the more talented Linda – from ‘compliant SDA’ circles, then why shouldn’t what SDA male leaders are doing to belittle women – and thereby preventing the Holy Spirit’s ‘born again’ process to make new ‘babies’ for ‘Our Heavenly Widower/Father’ to enjoy – be justly described as 'Spiritual LGBT. . . ’ ?
. . . because that is exactly what belittling women, belittling the ‘Word of God’ – and inevitably the ‘kids’ and the ‘father’ – is, Ted, Mesa, Council of Adventist Pastors . . . .
In attempting to prevent ‘Women’s Ordination’ from ‘infecting’ Christ’s own SDA church with further ‘flesh’-based issues like ‘LGTB . . .’, The ‘strong males’ of the SDA church have in effect become their own ‘enemies’ by bringing ‘Spiritual Unisex’ among ‘strong males’, themselves, upon the very SDA church they claim to want to save !
Be careful when fighting your demons that you do not become your demons. . . .
What a terribly lonesome religion !
