Adventistische Schriften über: "Dangers of Fixed Creeds"

Fixed creeds carry the danger of preventing the reception of new light from God's Word and the effectiveness of spiritual gifts, as they freeze doctrine at a certain level. They often lead to spiritual tyranny and division by excluding people who wish to follow the Bible more faithfully than human tradition. Ultimately, such creeds can subtly displace the Bible in its authority and pave the way back to a falling away from the faith that resembles the system of Rome.

Blockade to Spiritual Growth and New Insight

»If someone's faith is bound to a creed, I do not see how one can be able to receive new light from God's Word.«

1 - Signs of the Times [J.V. Himes], The Advent Herald, and Signs of the Times Reporter [Himes], vol. 2 (HST March 20, 1844, page 51.34)

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Creeds as Exclusion of Spiritual Gifts

»It is evident that the gifts, if received, would destroy human creeds, and that creeds, when adopted, exclude the gifts. The message of the second angel brought the Adventists out of the creed‑bound churches, where they could be reached by the gifts, united, and prepared for the Lord's coming.«

2 - Merritt E. Cornell, Miraculous Powers (MIRP 27.2)

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Danger of Spiritual Tyranny and Apostasy

»But they have made a fatal mistake by fixing their teachings in creeds, thereby taking the first steps back toward the spiritual tyranny of Rome. Thus the good promise they gave to a free religion and an unshackled conscience is already broken. For if the right to private judgment is permitted by the Protestant church, why then are people condemned and excluded from this church for no other crime than honestly trying to obey the Word of God...?«

3 - Uriah Smith, The United States in the Light of Prophecy (USLP 105.1)

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Displacement of the Bible by Human Creeds

»The Protestant evangelical denominations have bound each other and themselves so tightly that among them a person cannot become a preacher anywhere without accepting another book alongside the Bible. ... There is nothing imaginary about the statement that the power of creeds now begins to forbid the Bible as realistically as Rome did, albeit in a more subtle way.«

4 - Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) (GC88 388.2)

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Creeds as an Obstacle to True Christian Unity

»But the popular churches have introduced another means of preserving unity, namely human creeds. These creeds secure a kind of unity for each denomination; but they have all proven insufficient... These sects do not stand on the foundation of unity laid by Jesus Christ and taught by Paul ...«

5 - Merritt E. Cornell, Miraculous Powers (MIRP 27.2)

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