text: What you have stated Mr. Abbott is exactly right. The young ladies article is worthless and has no definitive meaning. But this is the whole agenda of the "big tent" concept for the SDA church.
  
  For those of us who know and understand that bible Adventism is a very definitive and articulate system of bible truth, these "big tent" comments are both meaningless and worthless.
  
  As you stated, they can believe anything they want and go start their own church and define it to suit themselves. In the end, they won't change the definition of bible Adventism as EGW has articulated it.
  
  There will always be a minority who won't budge because we know that to alter the truth a jot or tittle is to abandon the truth completely. It was Satan who wanted to "tweak" God's government just a little for a "big tent" theology.
  
  We see what the outcome of all that genders. True Adventism is non-negotiable.