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Not rejecting the EXISTENCE of the spirit. Just denying its existence as a THIRD divine being. Only TWO divine beings are worshiped in Scripture. If you can point to even ONE passage which commands either directly or by example that we worship, pray to, sing to, praise, thank or serve a third divine being - please give me the reference. Revelation 5:13 "And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I [John] heard saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, [Being #1] And to the Lamb, forever and ever!" [Being #2]

I wouldn't say SDA's are denying th existence of the HS as much as they are denying the explicit personhood of the HS. The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit exists; but (to me at least) it is also clear that the HS in the Spirit of Christ, or the Spirit of God. "You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ." (Romans 8:9) "And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you." (Romans 8:11) "And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." I Cor. 6:11) "You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, (II Cor.3:3) "for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance." (Phil 1:19) "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." (Gen. 1:1) See also Gen. 41:38, Ex. 31:3 and 35:31, Numbers 24:2, 1 Sam. 10:10 and 11:6, 2 Chron. 15:1 and 24:20, Job 33:4, and Psalm 106:33 for just a small sample of scriptures pointing to the HS being the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Christ.

I'm sorry Jackson but this argument that prophets have no ecclesiastical authority is a fairly recent myth that has formed. 1 Corinthians 12:28 gives the Ecclesiastical hierarchy : And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. The highest authority is of course Jesus. Then come the Apostles; People who actually heard Jesus, studied with Jesus, people who had memory of Jesus and who were also witnesses to his resurrection. This included 11 of the 12, the 70 and potentially the group of over 500. So we have over 500 people who were Apostles and next to Christ themselves they had the highest ecclesiastical authority. By the time of the writings of John most of the Apostles were dying off, so we find in the books of John more emphases on the second highest ecclesiastical authority; the prophets. While there was the Aaronite priesthood, there was also the office of Judge which united the offices of Prophet, Priest and King. The major separation of these offices were in the Samuel compromise and did not meet together again until Jesus. Thus Deborah was a Judge who's job was the union between Prophet and Priest and King. The book of Judges gives one judge from each tribe and we know that there were more than these 12 Judges (Samuel for example being one) so the indication of the book of Judges was that each tribe submitted a story (or that the compiler of the Deuteronomic history picked one story for each tribe.) and since there is evidence that their were more than the 12 and one of the 12 who we have the record of was a woman and it was taken for granted that a woman could be a judge opens the possibility that there could have been other women judges besides Deborah. In the Samuel compromise the Prophet had the highest ecclesiastical authority. The New Testament continues this authority except that they had something greater than the visions, dreams and ways God gave information to prophets, that was when God lived among us and the people who got to experience that situation were thus given a higher form of ecclesiastical authority. And when the Apostles died the prophet's ecclesiastical authority became only secondary to the written records of the Apostles.

while I understand someone's desire to have a biological child, it does seem sad to use a surrogate when there are so many children waiting to be adopted...