WAS ELLEN G. WHITE A PROPHETESS?
That which makes Adventism as repugnant and reprehensible as any other feature of it are the claims that Ellen G. White was an inspired prophetess. The publishers of her book, The Great Controversy, in the original preface of the book, have this to say: “We believe that she has been empowered by divine illumination to speak of some past events which have been brought to her attention with greater minuteness that is set forth in any existing records and to read the future with more than human foresight” (Publisher’s Preface, p. (a) of The Great Controversy, by Ellen G. White). They, here, infer that she had divine foresight, and they state that she spoke with “a greater minuteness that is set forth in existing records.” That would include the Bible, the word of God. This is blasphemy! But your attention is now called to her own claim for herself: “Yet the fact that God has revealed his will to men through his Word has not rendered needless the continued presence and guidance of the Holy
