A Response to the Video:
Seventh-day Adventism, the Spirit Behind the Church

by Bob Pickle

Answers to Questions Raised by:
Mark Martin, Sydney Cleveland
Dale Ratzlaff, The White Lie
. . . and Others

Discern Fact from Fiction

Bible Versions and Footnotes

#78: "For example in the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel, 300 words have been added to the Holy Scriptures."—Narrator.

#78: 300 words were added. If the reader will peruse Daniel 9 in The Clear Word, he will see that Dr. Blanco's additions are not the words of Mrs. White. He will also see that the additions are in harmony with the method of interpreting Daniel 8 and 9 that has been popular for centuries (see #64). Indeed, many of his "added" words are simply a rephrasing of the Hebrew text.

The documentation package lists this as "Point 40 & 40a." Under these points is a research paper by a minister. The first page quotes page 446 of Great Controversy where it says that "The second commandment forbidding image worship has been dropped from the law" by the Catholic Church. Then the paper goes on to say how this is wrong because the Catholic Church claims that it hasn't changed the second commandment, and that the so-called second commandment is really part of the first.

But the very next sentences in Great Controversy after the one quoted say:

But papists urge, as a reason for omitting the second commandment, that it is unnecessary, being included in the first, and that they are giving the law exactly as God designed it to be understood. This cannot be the change foretold by the prophet. An intentional, deliberate change is presented: "He shall think to change the times and the law." The change in the fourth commandment exactly fulfills the prophecy.

So the author of the research paper says a sentence in Great Controversy is wrong, and to prove it he gives points that the very next sentences in Great Controversy acknowledge to be so!

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