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Ellen White described the early SDA beliefs regarding the "personality of God" as one of their pillar doctrines. Even though we commonly use the word "personality" to refer to character traits, the early SDAs used it to refer to what we might call "personhood." Their focus was on these two questions:

1) Is God a person?

2) What does it mean to be a person?

Their answer to the first was, "Yes!" Their answer the second was, "It means to be a material being consisting of a real body with real parts and passions."

As you can hear in this episode, the early SDA doctrine of the personality of God was that God is a physical entity whose shape is humanoid (we were made in his image after all).

Original Blog Article: http://www.bdsda.com/2022/03/19/what-...

Podcasts Version: https://trentwildeblog.libsyn.com/wha...

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MORE LINKS:
◆ The personality of God is a "foundation truth" - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ This truth is "everything to us as a people" - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ The is a pillar of our faith - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ The personality of God was revealed in some of Ellen’s earliest visions
👉🏼 Broadside1 April 6, 1846, par. 7 - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...
👉🏼 Early Writings pages 54-55, 77, and 92) - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ "Personality of God" by James White - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ "God Is" by J. H. Waggoner (not James White) - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...
(original scan) file:///C:/Users/cookh/Downloads/RH18560424-V08-02.pdf

◆ "The Hope That Is In You" by A. C. Bourdeau - http://www.bdsda.com/the-hope-that-is...

◆ "The Image of God: Is God A Person?" by Uriah Smith - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ "The Personality of God" by D. M. Canright (James and Ellen White personally assisted him with this series of articles.) - http://www.bdsda.com/the-personality-...

◆ "Man Made in the Image of God" by R. F. Cottrell - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ "Is the Soul Immortal? Is God A Person?" by J. N. Loughborough - https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...

◆ The early SDAs taught that God occupies both time and space and thus, has a definite location as does every other material being. -
👉🏼 https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...
👉🏼 https://legacy.egwwritings.org/?ref=e...
👉🏼 https://legacy.egwwritings.org/?ref=e...

◆ (This is a tiny sample of what they wrote):

📝 Now what is the meaning of the word person? … It does not and cannot mean an immaterial, intangible, shapeless, formless essence. It always means an intelligent being, having a body, shape and form. … The God of the Bible is not a mere principle, an essence or soul of the universe, but he is a real, personal being, having a body, form, shape, and local habitation… ─ D. M. Canright [LINK = http://www.bdsda.com/the-personality-...]

📝 …God is a material, organized intelligence, possessing both body and parts. — A. C. Bourdeau [LINK = http://www.bdsda.com/the-hope-that-is...]

📝 …Christ is said to be “the image of the invisible God.” …Christ has a body composed of substance, flesh and bones; and he is said to be, “the image of the invisible God.” … God is a person with a body and form. — J. N. Loughborough [LINK = https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...]

📝 God is a person, for he made man in his own image; so is his only begotten son … they both exist with body and parts … the ancient of days, or God, has a head, and hair on his head, and a body… – James White [LINK = http://www.bdsda.com/the-faith-once-d...]

So there you have it. This is the SDA doctrine of the personality of God! He is a real material person; not an essence – not a bodiless spirit, but a person like you and me, composed of body, parts, and passions. Sadly, most SDAs have long forgotten this truth. Even while Ellen White was still alive this pillar truth was being covered over. In Testimonies for the Church Volume 8, p. 291 Ellen said,

📝 "Already there are coming in among our people spiritualistic teachings that will undermine the faith of those who give heed to them. The theory that God is an essence pervading all nature is one of Satan’s most subtle devices. It misrepresents God and is a dishonor to His greatness and majesty." [LINK = https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p...]