Anne88:
Actually we don’t believe that.
1. Lucifer and Michael were both archangels in heaven.
Ellen White, Signs of the Times, Sept 14, 1882 Paragraph 9
Rebellion originated with Satan. Notwithstanding the exalted position which he occupied among the heavenly host, he became dissatisfied because he was not accorded supreme honor. Hence he questioned God’s purposes and impugned his justice. He bent all his powers to allure the angels from their allegiance. The fact that HE
WAS an
ARCHANGEL, glorious and powerful, enabled** him **to exert a mighty influence. His complaints against God’s government, at first met with no favor; yet being urged again and again, they were finally accepted by those who had before been loyal and happy subjects of the King of Heaven.
SDA’s, believe, that prior to the coming to earth to try and eek out Salvation for humanity…
…Creature Christ existed in heaven as “Michael” the archangel.
…That adds up to Lucifer AND Michael existing as “archangel’s” at the same period of time.
According to Ellen White Lucifer & Michael weren’t the ONLY archangels flying around up there either…
…She claimed there were countless archangels.
…While there may be countless archangels & while Lucifer may have been one - Christ NEVER was one.
2. Christ loosing the title archangel after He was able to eek out His own salvation.
In SDA theology Christ WASN’T the Christ until He became the Christ “by not sinning”…
…Up until His death & Resurrection Ellen White gloated that “He could have sinned & lost His Salvation”.
**Ellen White, Desire of Ages, page 49 unto you a savior **
Satan in heaven had hated Christ for His position in the courts of God. He hated Him the more when he himself was dethroned. He hated Him who pledged Himself to redeem a race of sinners. Yet into the world where Satan claimed dominion God permitted His Son to come, a helpless babe, subject to the weakness of humanity. He permitted Him to meet life’s peril in common with every human soul, to fight the battle as every child of humanity must fight it,
at the risk of failure and eternal loss.”
Ellen White, ST, June 9, 1898
Had the head of Christ been touched, the hope of the human race would have perished.
Divine wrath would have come upon Christ as it came upon Adam. Christ and the church would have been without hope.”
SDA Deity of Christ, Longacre, pages 13 & 14
IF it were impossible for the Son of God to make a mistake or commit a sin, then His coming into this world and subjecting Himself to temptations were all a farce AND mere mockery. IF it were possible for Him to yield to temptation and fall into sin, then
He MUST have risked heaven and His very existence, and EVEN all eternity. That is exactly what the Scriptures AND the Spirit of Prophecy say Christ, the Son of God did do when He came to work out for us a plan of salvation from the curse of sin.
IF Christ “risked all,” EVEN His ETERNAL EXISTENCE in heaven,
then there was a possibility of His being overcome by sin, and IF overcome by sin, He would have gone into Joseph’s tomb and neither THAT tomb nor any other tomb would EVER have been opened. All would have been lost and HE would have suffered “eternal loss,” the loss of ALL He ever possessed &; His DIVINITY AND His humanity and heaven itself would have been "lost & eternally lost
It was possible for one of the God-head to be lost, and eternally lost - and IF that had happened, and it WAS possible to happen, “God, the Father”, would still have remained as the One and only absolute and living God, reigning supreme over all the unfallen worlds, but with all the human race blotted out of existence on this earth.
Christ’s “Deity” wasn’t by nature His according to Ellen White, it was “conditional”, it was something “issued”…
…And Christ was free to keep it provided He didn’t screw up.
…Otherwise it ( the Deity ) would have been extracted and returned to the One who issued it.
God bless.