What does the Seventh-day Adventist church hold regarding the relationship between the writings of Mrs. White and the Bible?
• We do not regard the writings of Ellen G. White as an addition to the sacred canon of Scripture. • We do not think of these writings as of universal application, like the Bible, but as written particularly for the Seventh-day Adventist church. • We do not regard Mrs. White’s writings in the same sense as the Holy Scriptures, which stand alone and unique as the standard by which all other writings must be judged.[280] But, having said that, we need to say more. Since we believe that inspiration is indivisible, and since the only activity of the prophet is to tell us what Jesus told him (“the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”), there is therefore no basis for a belief in either degrees of inspiration or degrees of authority. Ellen White was inspired in the same manner and to the same degree as were the Bible prophets. And the counsel that Mary gave to the servants at the wedding feast at Cana concerning her Son might well be paraphrased: “Whatsoever he saith unto you [and b
