No need to be sorry. I am happy to be corrected if when am wrong. I saw a post with quotes from Ellen G. White that made me cringe. If that is what they still believe then I would agree with you. I had been told that they had discarded much this baloney. My apologies for misleading anyone.
No apology needed my friend!
Unfortunately the Seventh Day Adventists are bound to the theological affirmations Ellen White made…
…The SDA’s celebrate her as a prophet who was instructed by God to say the things she did.
…It’s sad that her Arianism ( some argue Semi-Arianism ) keeps those people in such darkness.
The most important Doctrine to SDA’s, the one that meant everything to them as a people ( according to Ellen )…
…Was the teaching that God the Father was a flesh and bone hominid God.
…Therefore the Deity that creature Christ had was “gifted” or bestowed to creature Christ.
…It was a “conditional deity” that required constant conditions be met otherwise creature Christ would have rotted in the tomb.
For this teaching to be ingrained into SDA’s they are programmed to accept as fact…
…That Christ had & fought carnal desires of the flesh.
…That He wanted to do sexual stuff to the girl down the street but resisted His own lusts to do it.
To accomplish this SDA’s will gloat that Ellen White had information past that found in the Sacred Scriptures…
…The people who authored the books of the Bible were not God’s pen, Ellen White was.
…Example following:
Ellen White
The Bible is written by inspired men, but it is NOT
God’s mode of thought and expression. It is that of humanity.
God, as a writer, is not represented. Men will often say such an expression is not like God. But God has not put Himself in words, in logic, in rhetoric, on trial in the Bible. The writers of the Bible were God’s penmen, not His pen." (Selected Messages, Vol. 1, Chapter One “The Inspiration of the Prophetic Writers”)
This is a warning shot across the bow for any good Seventh Day Adventist to remember…
…That while the Bible indeed appears to repudiate multiple SDA Dogmas.
…What you read in the Bible is the expression of “humanity”.
After this it is pounded into SDA’s that Ellen White faithfully expresses WORD FOR WORD…
…Exactly what Father God and creature Christ wanted her to say, just like a sock puppet.
…Here are a few examples of that.
Ellen White
Before I stand on my feet, I have no thought of speaking as plainly as I do. But the Spirit of God rests upon me with power,
and I CANNOT but speak the words GIVEN me. I dare not withhold one word of the testimony… I speak the words GIVEN ME by a higher power than human power, and I CANNOT, if I would, recall [retract] one sentence” (1MR 28).
Ellen White
As soon as I take my pen in hand, I am not in darkness as to what to write. It is as plain and clear as a voice speaking to me, ‘I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go’” (2MR 319).
Ellen White
There are those who say, ‘Someone MANIPULATES her writings.’
I acknowledge the charge. It is One who is mighty in counsel, One who presents before me the condition of things” (1MR 30).
Ellen White
If you lessen the confidence of God’s people** in the testimonies **he has sent them, you are rebelling against God as certainly as were Korah, Dathan and Abirum" (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 66).
“Testimonies” is code for Ellen White’s teachings on creature Christ and the Saturday Sabbath.
Ellen White
“How many have read carefully Patriarchs and Prophets, The Great Controversy, and The Desire of Ages? I wish all to understand that my confidence in the light that God has given stands firm, because I know that the Holy Spirit’s power magnified the truth, and made it honorable, saying: ‘This is the way, walk ye in it.’
In my books, the truth is stated, barricaded by a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ The Holy Spirit traced these truths upon my heart and mind as indelibly as the law was traced by the finger of God, upon the tables of stone…” (Letter 90, 1906)
Ellen White
I testify the things which I have seen, the things which I have heard, the things which my hands have handled of the Word of life. And this testimony I know to be of the Father and the Son. We have seen and do testify that the power of the Holy Ghost has accompanied the presentation of the truth, warning with pen and voice, and giving the messages in their order.
To deny this work would be to deny the Holy Ghost, and would place us in that company who have departed from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." (Selected Messages vol. 2, p. 388)
Ellen White
Some are ready to inquire: ‘Who told Sister White these things?’ They have even put the question to me: ‘Did anyone tell you these things?’ I could answer them: ‘Yes; yes, the angel of God has spoken to me.’ But what they mean is: ‘Have the brethren and sisters been exposing their faults?’ For the future, I shall not belittle the testimonies that God has given me, to make explanations to try to satisfy such narrow minds,
but shall treat all such questions as an insult to the Spirit of God. God has seen fit to thrust me into positions in which He has not placed any other one in our ranks. He has laid upon me burdens of reproof that He has not given to any other one." (Testimonies, vol. 3, pp. 314, 315)
It hurts to quote these things!
