The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel Quotes

“BLEHM: I see better today than ever before that the meaning of the past is correct. I accept what I believe to be a divine communication through Ellen White. It is our privilege to improve the pillars of the faith, but not to change them. Dr. Ford’s challenge has already borne fruit in the Pacific Union—split congregations, doubts in the minds of pastors leading them to give up their credentials, divided faculties. Anything that divides this church or leads to doubt is wrong.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“I believe that God spoke to Ellen White miraculously. This church would have been ship-wrecked without her.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“The bottom line, of course, is the role of Ellen White in doctrinal matters. This is central. Dr. Sakae Kubo, now president of Newbold College, has identified the great issue that will come before the church during the 1980s as the role of the Spirit of Prophecy. It will be the issue, he says.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“In Alice in Wonderland amazing things, even impossible things, happen. But we do not live in Wonderland. Ours is a world where reason must ultimately have its way, and where error does only damage.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“With God all possible things are possible.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“Dr Syme: Of course He does. I mean obviously anyone, if you create something. If you created a cupboard you would take responsibility for anything that happened to the cupboard. But if your wife came along and put something too heavy on one of the shelves and it came crashing down, unless you’re a man of very amiable temperament, I’m quite sure you would blame your wife for her stupidity. But you’re still responsible for making the cupboard.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“Thus we could say that when she uses the great earthquake of 1755—you go and try to convince people in the world today that Christ’s coming must be near because an earthquake took place over 200 years ago. They’ll think you’re crazy. It was a sign, my friends, for the people who heard the great second Advent movement.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“Look at verse 12. It speaks about: He entered once for all into the holy place [or as most versions give, ‘the most holy place’], taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood. And then in verse 24: Christ has entered, not into a most holy place made with hands, a copy of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered the holy place yearly [that word “holy place” means “most holy” in this context] with blood not his own.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“Adventists have traditionally jumped from Daniel 8:14 to Leviticus 16 on the basis of the word “cleanse.” “Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” The point is, the word “cleanse” isn’t there. It’s a mistranslation.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel

“I believe in a pre-Advent Judgment, with every man’s destiny settled before the coming of Christ. I believe the Day of Atonement has a special application to Christ’s last work, as prefigured by the work in the second apartment. I believe the Seventh-day Adventist Movement was raised up in 1844 by God to do a special work, and that to it was restored the gift of prophecy in the person of Ellen G. White. There, for the record, they are my true convictions.”
― Desmond Ford, The Investigative Judgment and the Everlasting Gospel