Born This Way? An Unnatural View of Romans 1 (Part 1)

At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Everyone who is found written in the book.” Daniel 12:1

Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists claim that Jesus Christ is also the Archangel Michael. Both of these denominations came from the Millerite movement so it’s no surprise that they believe the same thing. William Miller, the founder of the Millerite movement, wrote in an exposition of Daniel 12:1

When Jesus did not return in 1844 as William Miller predicted, many of the Millerites returned to their previous denominations or abandoned their faith entirely, but one group continued and later on organized themselves and became known as Seventh-day Adventists, while another group became the Jehovah’s Witnesses. These groups shared similar doctrines; aside from the belief that Michael and Jesus are one and the same person, they also believe in soul-sleep2 and annihilationism 3. And while the official position of the Seventh-day Adventist church today is Trinitarian, (there are some groups within SDA who are non-trinitarians) SDAs too started off as sharing the Arian4 belief that Jesus Christ is not co-equal with God. Some of the SDA pioneers who held this belief include5: James White, Uriah Smith, Joseph Bates, R.F. Cotrell and many more. But SDA belief has some differences about the Arian teaching, hence it was called Semi-Arian6. Semi-Arians believe that Jesus is not the Almighty God, but He is a divine being just not equal with the Father and He has a beginning.