Ellen G. White and Her Critics

The Results of Amalgamation

But does simply the amalgamation of different races of men and the amalgamation of different species of animals suffice to measure up to the description of the evil character of amalgamation and the results that followed from it; namely, destruction by a flood? Let us look first at the amalgamation of races of men. Note again the text of the first quotation cited (Spiritual Gifts 3:64), and observe these characteristics of amalgamation: EGWC 309.3

1. It was the “one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood.” EGWC 309.4

2. It “defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere.” EGWC 309.5

3. “That powerful, long-lived race ... had corrupted their ways before him.” EGWC 309.6

Two distinct groups of human beings are presented at the opening of the chapter in Spiritual Gifts, volume 3, entitled “Crime Before the Flood“: (1) “the descendants of Seth” and (2) “the descendants of Cain.” The two groups were distinct in two marked ways: (1) The first group “felt the curse but lightly.” (2) The second group, “who turned from GOD and trampled upon his authority, felt the effects of the curse more heavily, especially in stature and nobleness of form.” “The descendants of Seth were called the sons of GOD—the descendants of Cain, the sons of men.” Here two races are presented which differ both in moral and physical characteristics. EGWC 309.7

Then follow immediately these words: “As the sons of GOD mingled with the sons of men, they became corrupt, and by intermarriage with them, lost, through the, influence of their wives, their peculiar, holy character, and united with the sons of Cain in their idolatry.”—Pages 60, 61. Next comes a description of their evil course of idolatry, particularly their prostituting to sinful ends the gold and silver and other material possessions that were theirs. Mrs. White then observes: “They corrupted themselves with those things which GOD had placed upon the earth for man’s benefit.”—Page 63. From a discussion of idolatry she turns to polygamy and makes this statement: “The more men multiplied wives to themselves, the more they increased in wickedness and unhappiness.”—Page 63. EGWC 310.1

Even in this brief chapter we find sufficient to support the position that the judgment of a flood upon men was because of the amalgamation of races of men. Two races are presented. The amalgamation of the two results in corruption and idolatry, and polygamy only increases the corruption and wickedness. The disputed passage says that God brought the Flood because men “had corrupted their ways before him.” EGWC 310.2