Today I have finished my reading about the history of the most divisive book that was ever written in Seventh-day Adventist Church: Questions on Doctrine. While I was getting closer to its end I was very surprised by a final article in the book written by Herbert E. Douglas. I want to share this short article with you. I hope you will be amazed also as you read the following lines:
The great controversy that the Bible describes is far different than Hollywood’s portrayal of a galactic clash of heavenly warriors with their shining swords. The great controversy is over the question of who can best govern the universe and who presents the best principles by which created intelligences can find hope, health, happiness, and heavenly assurance, while living on a planet still to be sanitized from all the evil for which Satan is responsible. To say it another way, the great controversy is not a spectator sport. It does not give anyone the luxury of sitting in the bleachers. You and I are actors on the stage of the universe. How we play our part will determine not only our eternal futures but also help significantly in vindicating the integrity of God’s order in the universe.
Stephen Hawking, that remarkable Cambridge University mathematician and cosmologist, in his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, wrote that were scientists to discover the long-sought “theory of everything” to explain the varying mechanisms of the universe, “we would truly know the mind of God.”
Seventh-day Adventists have been given just that – the “theory of everything; that truly introduces us to the “mind of God.” We didn’t discover it – it was given to us. We call it the Great Controversy Theme, the unified field of clarity as to what is going on in this wonderful universe. Here we summarize the overall scope of the Great Controversy Theme (GCT):
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