"Hmmmm. First I've heard that Venden was an apostate. Guess I've been out of touch. I thought what he said made a lot of sense, although I thought it was "righteousness by faith."

Righteousness by faith alone, is Christ alone. Sanctification is not "Christ alone". Sanctification is never "righteousness by faith alone." This is what Venden taught.

Sanctification is by faith in Christ and human effort. Justification before God by Substitution and Representation is "Christ alone" and "faith alone".

Christ alone merited for us the gift of eternal life. But you don't obtain a fitness for heaven "by faith alone."

Like many SDA theologians, Venden simply didn't know what he was talking about. Why discipline Ford, and let people like Venden and Maxwell dump their false doctrine all over the church? 

Church leaders were too ignorant to know the difference and still don't. Adventism is a "Johnny come lately" church that knows very little about basic bible Christanity.