Judson Sylvanus Washburn was a retired Adventist minister whose 1939 pamphlet became a documented witness in the later Trinity controversy.
The 1939 Trinity Pamphlet
In the October 1993 issue of Ministry, George R. Knight records that Washburn described the Trinity as:
"a cruel heathen monstrosity," "an impossible, absurd invention," "a blasphemous burlesque," and "a bungling, absurd, irreverent caricature."
Washburn further called it a Roman doctrine "seeking to intrude its evil presence into the teachings of the third angel's message." He also claimed that W. W. Prescott could not be a Seventh-day Adventist because he believed in the Trinity.
The article's note 10 identifies the source trail precisely:
J. S. Washburn, "The Trinity" (unpublished pamphlet 1940); Gilbert M. Valentine, The Shaping of Adventism: The Case of W. W. Prescott (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Andrews University Press, 1992), pp. 279, 280.
Look into the original pioneer testimony before accepting a later doctrinal definition. Read the October 1993 discussion and Washburn's primary pamphlet side by side.
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