Editing New Testament (section)

===Seventh-day Adventists===
The [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] holds the New Testament as the inspired Word of God, with God influencing the "thoughts" of the Apostles in the writing, not necessarily every word though. The first fundamental belief of the Seventh-Day Adventist church stated that "The Holy Scriptures are the [[Biblical infallibility|infallible]] revelation of [God's] will." [[Seventh-day Adventist theology|Adventist theologians]] generally reject the "verbal inspiration" position on Scripture held by many conservative [[evangelical Christians]]. They believe instead that God inspired the thoughts of the biblical authors and apostles, and that the writers then expressed these thoughts in their own words.<ref>{{cite book|title=Seventh-day Adventists Believe|author=Ministerial Association, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists |year=2005 |publisher=Pacific Press Publishing Association |edition=2nd |pages=14–16}}</ref> This view is popularly known as "thought inspiration", and most Adventist members hold to that view. According to Ed Christian, former ''[[Journal of the Adventist Theological Society|JATS]]'' editor, "few if any [[Adventist Theological Society|ATS]] members believe in verbal inerrancy".<ref>{{cite web |last=McLarty |first=John |url=http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2001/11/adventist-theological-society-0 |title=The Adventist Theological Society |website=Adventist Today |date=15 November 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225063148/http://www.atoday.com/magazine/2001/11/adventist-theological-society-0 |archive-date=25 December 2007 }}</ref>

How the [[Mosaic Law]] should be applied came up at Adventist conferences in the past, and Adventist theologians such as [[A. T. Jones]] and [[E. J. Waggoner]] looked at the problem addressed by Paul in [[Epistle to the Galatians|Galatians]] as not the ceremonial law, but rather the wrong use of the law ([[legalism (theology)|legalism]]). They were opposed by [[Uriah Smith]] and [[George Ide Butler|George Butler]] at the 1888 Conference. Smith in particular thought the Galatians issue had been settled by Ellen White already, yet in 1890 she claimed that justification by faith is "the [[Three Angels' Messages|third angel's message]] in verity."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=White |first1=E. G. |title=Repentance the Gift of God |journal=Advent Review and Sabbath Herald |date=1 April 1890 |volume=67 |issue=13 |pages=193–94 |url=https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18900401-V67-13.pdf |access-date=30 December 2020|quote=Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel's message, and I have answered, "it is the third angel's message in verity." ... Brightness, glory, and power are to be connected with the third angel's message, and conviction will follow wherever it is preached in demonstration of the Spirit.}}</ref> White interpreted Colossians 2:14<ref>{{bibleverse||Colossians|2:14|NIV}}</ref> as saying that the ceremonial law was nailed to the cross.<ref>White, Ellen (2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=yKqXCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT409 ''Patriarchs and Prophets'']. Start Publishing LLC. p. 365.</ref>