Ellen G. White claims

This page is a list of claims made by Ellen White that supposedly were based on her “visions” or light shown to her by God. Many people aren’t aware of how devious and pathological Ellen White was. The EGW Estate and the SDA Church have not been able to refute these with much success. They have not even tried to refute many of them. I still extend an invitation to any SDA Church leader who wants to discuss these with me publicly or privately. The fact that they never have says a lot.

 

Note that I am only including primary-source documents, meaning that these are things Ellen White wrote herself. I am not including any secondary attributions, such as the many times people heard her claim the Lord was going to return within a year or two. To learn more, see my book Psychobiography. The following are Ellen White in her own words.

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Everything she wrote was from God

 

NOTE: The 1990 Veltman Report by the SDA General Conference headquarters (published in their Ministry Magazine) admitted that she took from at least 23 books, including fiction, to create the book The Desire of Ages. An excerpt: “Ellen White used a minimum of 23 sources of various types of literature, including fiction, in her writings on the life of Christ.” Keep that in mind as you read the following.

 

1 SM, p. 35, 1906 “These books, giving the instruction that the Lord has given me during the last sixty years, contain light from heaven, and will bear the test of investigation.”

 

Testimonies for the Church “I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before  me in vision—the precious rays of light shining from the throne.”

 

Letter 90, 1906 “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.”

 

5T p. 67 “In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely  my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision – the precious rays of light  shining from the throne.” 

 

3 SM pp. 32, 52 “The testimonies never contradict His Word” … “There is one straight train of truth, without one heretical sentence, in that which I have written.” 

 

4T p. 230 “God does nothing in partnership with Satan. My work for the past thirty years bears

 the stamp of God or the stamp of the enemy. There is no halfway in the matter.” 

 

2 SM p.63 “You think individuals have prejudiced my mind. If I am in this state, I am not fitted to be entrusted with the work of God.” 

 

Letter H-339, Dec. 26, 1904 “These books contain clear, straight, unalterable truth and they should certainly be appreciated. The instruction they contain is not of human production.”

 

3 SM, p. 30 “The Holy Ghost is the Author of the Scriptures and of the Spirit of Prophecy.”

 

5T, p. 63 “When I went to Colorado, I wrote many pages to be read at your camp meeting. . . God was speaking through clay. You might say this communication was only a letter. Yes, it was a letter, but prompted by the Spirit of God, to bring before your minds things that had been shown me.”  

 

Letter 50, 1906 “I am thankful that the instruction contained in my books establishes present truth for this time. These books were written under the demonstration of the Holy Spirit.”

 

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Not following her directives was the same as not following God

 

1 SM p. 46 “If they [her testimonies] are not heeded, the Holy Spirit is shut away from the soul.” 

 

5t p. 661 “When I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the spirit of God.” 

 

5T p. 674 “If you lose confidence in the testimonies you will drift from Bible truth.” 

 

8T, p. 298 “We must follow the directions given through the Spirit of Prophecy [Mrs. White’s writings]. ... God has spoken to us through His Word. He has spoken to us through the Testimonies to the church and through the books that have helped to make plain our present duty and the position that we should now occupy.”

 

Letter 25b, 1895, pp. 1-3, to Brother and Sister Hare, April, 1895 “I beg of you for Christ’s sake to consider what I say; for I say it not of myself. It is the word of God to you.” 

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She claimed she was shown the “Shut Door” theology and later denied it.

 

EGW 1849, Manuscript Releases, 5:93; Present Truth August 1849, LLU Library

Heritage Room  “I was shown that the commandments of God, and the testimony

of Jesus Christ, relating to the shut door, could not be separated … My

accompanying angel bade me look for the travail of soul for sinners as used to be. 

I looked, but could not see it, for the time of their salvation is past.” (41)

 

Ellen White Manuscript 11, LLU Library Heritage Room, pp. 3-4. “Then I saw the

Laodiceans … Dare they admit that the door [of salvation] is shut?  The sin against

the Holy Ghost was to ascribe to Satan what belongs to God or what the Holy

Ghost has done. They said the shut door was of the devil and now admit it is

against their own lives.  They shall die the death.” (42)

 

Ellen White 1883 statement quoted in Arthur L White, Ellen White and the Shut

Door Question (White Estate 1982, revised, p.13) “For a time after the disap-

pointment in 1844, I did hold, in common with the advent body, that the door of

mercy was then forever closed to the world. This position was taken before my

first vision was given me. It was the light given me of God that corrected our error,

and enabled us to see the true position.” (39)

 

 

Ridiculous or blasphemous? Then she denies she said it.

 

Ellen White’s Camden, New York, vision on June 21, 1851 “I saw that Jesus

prayed for his enemies; but that should not cause us to pray for the wicked world,

whom God has rejected. When he prayed for his enemies there was hope for them,

and they could be benefited and saved by his prayers, and also after he was a

mediator in the outer apartment for the whole world; but now his spirit and

sympathy were withdrawn from the world; and our sympathy must be with Jesus,

and must be withdrawn from the ungodly.” (44)

 

“I never have stated or written that the world was doomed or damned. I never have

under any circumstances used this language to anyone, however sinful. I have ever

had messages of reproof for those who used these harsh expressions.” --Letter 2,

1874. Quoted in Selected Messages, book 1, p. 74.

 

 

Assurance of salvation or not?

 

Ellen White’s warnings against saying or feeling you are saved. This was no isolated point by Ellen, like the White Estate tries to portray.

 

EGW-R&H June 17, 1890 [After 1888 Conference] “We are never to rest in a satisfied condition, and cease to make advancement, saying, ‘I am saved.’ … No sanctified tongue will be found uttering these words till Christ shall come….never dare to say, ‘I am saved’ … it is stating a falsehood to say, ‘I am saved.’ No one is saved who is a transgressor of the law of God.”

 

EGW-Misc. Collection, ch. 12 “Sabbath Talk,” 1888 p. 128. “Many will say, I am saved, I am saved, I am saved. Well, have they been cleansed from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit? And can they cleanse themselves by the righteousness of the law?”

 

EGW-Faith & Works, p. 121  “Oh, yes, some say, ‘we are saved in doing nothing. In fact, I am saved. I need not keep the law of God. I am saved by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.’ Christ came to our world to bring all men back to allegiance to God.  To take the position that you can break God’s law, for Christ has done it all, is a position of death, for you are as verily a transgressor as anyone.”

 

EGW-The Youth’s Instructor, August 31, 1887 par. 8.  “There are many who say, ‘I am saved; I am sanctified; I have nothing to do.  Jesus has done it all,’ … Our faith, the hope we claim of one day obtaining immortality, calls for the stretch of every muscle, and the strain of every nerve.  We cannot be saved in sin and in transgression of God’s law.” 

 

EGW-Kress Collection, p. 120  “But those who after being prayed with say, I am saved, have no real understanding of what it means to receive Christ.  No man can say, I am saved, until he has endured test and trial, until he has shown that he can overcome temptation.”

 

EGW-Signs of the Times, December 28, 1891, par. 14.  “All those who say, ‘I am saved!  I am saved’ but do not obey God’s commandments, are resting their salvation on a false hope, a false foundation.” 

 

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Utterly ridiculous

 

1885 letter concerning marriage, Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, 199, 14. “In this age of the world. As the scenes of earth’s history are soon to close and we are about to enter upon the time of trouble such as never was, the fewer the marriages contracted, the better for all, both men and women.”

 

Manuscript 34, 1885, Document File 360A, White Estate July 15, 1934. “The time is an has been for years, that the bringing of children into the world is more an occasion of grief than joy… Satan controls these children, and the Lord has but little to do with them. The time has come when, in one sense, that they have wives be as thought they had none.”

 

Manuscript 1, 1854. Released from White Estate 2014. “God hates unruly children who manifest passion and evil tempers, etc. He can not save them in the time of trouble.”

 

God kills people’s children to make them more religious. Letter 1, 1857, released from White Estate 2014. “God has come very near unto you when you were at a great distance from Him. He took two idols from you that God alone might be exalted and reign supreme in your heart, and that your eye might be single to His glory. These children were snatched away to save you and her… Have not those with you that love not God and that God hates.”

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