In assessing the old and new views of the Daily, it becomes immediately apparent that there can be no harmony between the two. When we remove all of the fluff that surrounds both views, we are left with two opposing and antagonistic principles. The one—the old view, states that the Daily is of Satan; the other—the new view, states that the Daily is of God.
The fact that the old view of paganism renders the daily as a satanic power, and the new view of Christ’s high priestly ministry renders it as a godly power, should automatically let us know that both cannot be right. In other words, they are as antagonistic to each other as it is possible to be.
And therein lies the principle of the thing—that is, to correctly determine whether something is of God or of Satan.
Almost without exception, Adventism has embraced the new view.
The new view is a result of Protestant methods of interpretation–that is, the historical grammatical and higher critical methodologies, while the old view comes to us from the application of Miller’s Rules.
Please see ‘Samson’s Riddle’ for a more complete and detailed examination of the ‘Daily.’