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Today, in the mail, we received a copy of Ellen White’s book, The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan. Now, I’ve spent a great deal of time reading that book in the distant past. It was also the chapters in it that describe the investigative judgment that helped propel me out of the SDA denomination. When I submitted my resignation letter to the pastor, he asked to visit me three times. He did, but never used scripture, not even once. He only used the GC which made no sense to me since those were the chapters which convinced me of the error of the IJ and of Ellen White herself.

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Anyway, back to today’s delivery of a copy of the GC in my mailbox. Though I couldn’t see it, I was fairly certain that is what it was which my wife confirmed.

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It’s arrival triggered a memory from my days as a theology major at PUC (Pacific Union College). I was browsing the bookstore when a fellow browser said, “Did you know the White estate forgot to renew the copyright on the GC? It’s now in the public domain.”

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“Huh,” I thought. “Well, maybe that’s in God’s plan to get it out to more people.” I was right. The publisher of this copy is in one of the upper-Midwest States. They must send out thousands of these. I’ve heard of whole towns being blanketed in them. Some on doorsteps and some in mailboxes.

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I firmly believe that God has each of us in a place where we can be best benefitted and where we can best benefit, so I’m not opposed to people becoming SDAs, but I still cringe when I think of that horrific doctrine being included into someone’s theology. It only engenders fear and destroys the meaning of the cross of Jesus. I wish neither on friend or foe.

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