Neal C. Wilson's compromise

General Conference President--Neal C. Wilson--states under oath in Court:

"Although it is true that there was a period in the life of the Seventh-day Adventist church when the denomination took a distinctly anti-Roman Catholic viewpoint, and the term 'hierarchy' was used in a pejorative sense to refer to the papal form of church governance, that attitude on the church's part was nothing more than a manifestation of widespread anti-popery among conservative protestant denominations in the early part of this century and the latter part of the last, and which has now been consigned to the historical trash heap so far as the Seventh-day Adventist church is concerned."
Reply Brief for the Defendant, p 4, case #C-74-2025 CBR. March 30, 1975.

In 1985, Neal Wilson denied ever making such a statement. He states:

"Our position is not changed. But our work is not to denounce the Roman Catholic church. We speak the truth and let the truth do the cutting. We have not consigned anything to the 'trash heap,' as one publication has charged. We are not watering down or diluting the message. I regret that statements get into print that do not give an accurate picture."
Pacific Union Recorder, Feb 18, 1985.
(See Testimonies, vol 5, p 94-95 regarding perjury, and Testimonies to Ministers, p 304).

(1)Source: http://www.lightministries.com/sda/id1217.htm

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"there is another universal and truly catholic organization, the Seventh-day Adventist Church."
(Neal C. Wilson, General Conference President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Adventist Review, March 5, 1981, p 3).

(2)Source: http://www.sdaapostasy.org/sdaeyes.htm

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