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lied in her tract entitled.....? ...."A Word to the Little Flock". Is this a common belief among modern Seventh Day Adventists who tend to distance themselves (I've been told) from the more "unusual" things which Ellen White wrote in her later years?
I saw this rather incredible claim in an answer posted in reply to this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110120204758AAtQM1e
I too remember reading that tract where Ellen White talks about how handsomely tall the inhabitants of Saturn were. Mrs. White claimed to quickly "fly" from planet to planet and gave elaborate descriptions of the various moons. So do today SDAs simply dismiss these later tracts which she and her husband published as being deliberate frauds? I had been told by SDA friends that they assumed that she was suffering from dementia in her later "visions" and that they didn't consider them in any way shocking or undermining of her previous ministry when she was of sound mind.
Can other SDA's speak to this? (I assume that most would not agree with "Frankinsense" that Mrs. White and her husband were deliberately writing falsehoods and slandering her previous ministry teachings.)
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As I recall from my undergrad days (religious studies major), SDAs used to proudly tell of Ellen White's supernatural travels throughout the solar system and how she counted the numbers of moons properly for each planet (as they were tallied in the aforementioned tract). But as astronomers started building better telescopes and discovered more moons, Mrs. Whites "journeys" became known for their obvious errors and so those tracts were at first corrected to reflect the proper numbers of moons. But later they simply ceased publication because non-SDA ministers were using the tracts to preach that Mrs. White was a "false prophet" who failed the Old Testament test of a "true prophet" and therefore should be stoned!
I saw this rather incredible claim in an answer posted in reply to this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110120204758AAtQM1e
I too remember reading that tract where Ellen White talks about how handsomely tall the inhabitants of Saturn were. Mrs. White claimed to quickly "fly" from planet to planet and gave elaborate descriptions of the various moons. So do today SDAs simply dismiss these later tracts which she and her husband published as being deliberate frauds? I had been told by SDA friends that they assumed that she was suffering from dementia in her later "visions" and that they didn't consider them in any way shocking or undermining of her previous ministry when she was of sound mind.
Can other SDA's speak to this? (I assume that most would not agree with "Frankinsense" that Mrs. White and her husband were deliberately writing falsehoods and slandering her previous ministry teachings.)
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As I recall from my undergrad days (religious studies major), SDAs used to proudly tell of Ellen White's supernatural travels throughout the solar system and how she counted the numbers of moons properly for each planet (as they were tallied in the aforementioned tract). But as astronomers started building better telescopes and discovered more moons, Mrs. Whites "journeys" became known for their obvious errors and so those tracts were at first corrected to reflect the proper numbers of moons. But later they simply ceased publication because non-SDA ministers were using the tracts to preach that Mrs. White was a "false prophet" who failed the Old Testament test of a "true prophet" and therefore should be stoned!