 But when we consider that he sank his nature in our human nature to all eternity—that is a sacrifice.”

Though Jones gave particular emphasis to the eternity of Jesus, Ellen White is probably the first to point to Jesus’ eternity as during the 1870s she described Jesus as the “eternal Son of God.”

Before the 1890s Ellen White made no explicit anti-Trinitarian or semi-Arian statements.However, in "Desire of Ages" (1898) she made the shocking, to some, statement, "In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived," which brought about the development on the view of the Godhead.She also affirmed the personhood and divinity of the Holy Spirit who was “the Third Person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power.”

In 1899, as editor of the Review and Herald, A. T. Jones wrote of the Godhead in a Trinitarian way