#1 ELLEN WHITE A PROPHETESS?

Is your town like ours?                                                         

                        

The Seventh Day Adventists have the newest church building with an adjacent school, and you couldn’t wish for better company: friendly, clean living, unworldly, modestly dressed, generous, community-minded, offering disaster relief……even God-fearing, prayerful, devoted, studying the Bible diligently in ‘Sabbath School’, active missionaries….                                   

But what does their General Conference leadership claim?

“The Advent movement was a truly Biblical interconfessional movement centred in the Word of God…that brought them together as God’s remnant.”                          

‘God’s Remnant Church’, hey?  Well there’s no such expression in the Bible so before we sign up as members to receive the ‘right hand of fellowship’ how about we check the current 28 Fundamental Beliefs of this church….              
...hullo…who’s this?...we’ve come to:                                    
Clause 18: “The Gift of Prophecy….manifested in the ministry of Ellen G. White. As the Lord’s messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction….”

That’s odd – I don’t remember seeing ‘The Book of Ellen’ in my Bible…in fact, didn’t the apostle Paul order twice that women were to be silent in church and not teach?  (1 Corinthians 14: 34-35, 1 Timothy 2:11-12)   (Okay, that might sound a bit unreasonable but who am I to argue?)                     

Anyway, let’s see if this Ellen G. White (1827-1915) taught the truth….

Opening her best-seller, The Desire of Ages, we find Pacific Press Publishing claiming it is “written with authority…a source of inspiration and enlightenment to millions of readers all over the world.”  

In chapter 10 of her book she says: “When [Gabriel] came with a message to Daniel, he said, There is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael (Christ) your Prince. Daniel 10.21.”

Hey??  Michael is Christ??                                                   
You might recall that Michael is ‘the great prince which standeth for the children of [Daniel’s] people’ – Israel. (Daniel 12:1)  He is the archangel who contended with the devil about the body of Moses (Jude 9) and at some stage, leads the fight in heaven against ‘the dragon and his angels’ (Revelation 12:7).                          
Wherever would Mrs. White get the idea Michael the archangel is Christ?

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel…” 1 Thessalonians 4:16

No Mrs. White, this does NOT say the Lord Jesus is the archangel.                        
So let’s see what the Bible has to say about our Lord Jesus Christ:

“Being made so much better than the angels…                     

….let all the angels of God worship him…                               

…unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever…                    

...but to which of the angels said he at anytime, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?” Hebrews ch1

What about this one:

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."  Colossians 2:8-9

Wow! “…all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”!  So, beware!

Despite this warning, Mrs. White also taught in 1903:  “The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord Almighty”  SDA Commentary V, page 1129

The General Conference has said: “her writings are consistent, accurate, and in full agreement with the Scriptures”, her predictions “have been fulfilled with an amazing accuracy” and “her balanced expositions [of Christ’s incarnation] fully agree with the Biblical view”.                 

Does her teaching seem like sound doctrine to you?…or more like blasphemy?

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Acknowledgements:  

adventist.org/beliefs                                                                                  

sdanet.org/atissue/doctrines/gc28           

whiteestate.org   

White E.G. ‘The Desire of Ages’, Pacific Press Publishing Assoc., Oshawa, Ontario 1898                                                                                                                                                                   

‘Seventh Day Adventists Believe…27 Fundamental Doctrines’, Ministerial Association, General Conference of SDA, Washington DC, 1988