Larry Geraty on Seeking What They Sought Podcast

 I watched the recent Seeking what they Sought podcast today. It was mostly about Larry Geraty's involvement with the writing of the Fundamental belief on the Sanctuary in the 1980 Fundamental beliefs. Not too important until they asked Geraty about what he believes about the Sanctuary doctrine which to him is that there is someday a future Judgment and Christ is the Judge and 1844 is nothing at all. In other words, he is in line with most all the rest of Christianity. Then he is asked the following:

From the Transcript (edited for clarity):

1:11:40 (Sean speaking) "you know when we talk about it Ellen white, can she be a prophet, Larry and  have gotten things objectively wrong? [skip crosstalk some other interjections of little value] (Larry Geraty) no I think that your question is uh can a 1:12:42 prophet make a mistake and still be led by God and be valuable and I think that we look back in history you know the New Testament and the Old Testament were all those prophets perfect no many of them 1:12:54 made mistakes uh but that didn't mean that they weren't an important part of the building blocks that we build on as we move forward so uh I think it's it's better to admit a mistake than to spend endless hours trying to justify and look for reasons why you were right you know but um um"

So, to Larry Geraty a supposed prophet can make a huge mistake of saying that the Adventist doctrine of the Investigative Judgment, which was supposedly begun with the judgment of the dead saints in 1844, since the anticipated second coming of 1844 did not occur and something big must have happened because they could not have been wrong on their date setting. It was simply not true and just a mistake that the same prophet in the next 70 or so years never corrected. Or if you really believe that the confirmation of that doctrine came from God to Ellen White, that God never corrected it! That doctrine and all the sundry attached doctrines that caused so much distress in Adventism and so much dissension, and still causes dissension today as well as another strange teaching called Last Generation theology, which asserts a generation of sinless people to usher in the second coming was somehow valuable. 

No wonder they pulled the book "Reclaiming the Prophet". If he is an example of one of the authors'  writers' logic, that book would have been a laughing stock inside and outside of Adventism.