Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: Steve.Hix@eng.sun.com (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath change and History (was a question for those in love ...) Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 03:52:34 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes: > >As for SDA's open view of questioning fundamentals, does anyone have >the story as to why Kellog went his way around the turn of the >century. The story I heard was that Kellog questioned E. G. White's >abilities and was, after some debate, dismissed from the the church, >or left on a strong invitation to do so. As I recall the situation, Kellogg (Dr. John Harvey, brother of Will K. of corn flakes fame) left the SDAs because of his latter-life enthusiastic espousal of pantheism. This was pretty significant deviation from mainstream (not to mention SDA) Christian theology, ending in himself and the SDAs parting company. -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------