THE GREAT CONTROVERSY in Baltimore, Maryland

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This evening National Public Radio carried a lengthy news item about Baltimore having been inundated with hundreds of thousands of copies of a book titled "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY". It seems that the book was mailed to every address in Baltimore.

As many of us here at CF know, "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY" was authored by Ellen White, the prophetess, and chief founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. This thread is primarily directed toward members of that denomination. I have a number of questions as follow:

1. Why? Why deluge a large city with your denomination's key text, if in actual fact, you really believe that the Bible alone is the basis of all of your beliefs, as many of our SDA friends here at CF assert.
2. Why Baltimore (and Philadelphia, I understand)? Why not Denver or San Diego or Moscow or Nairobi?
3. Why go to the very significant expense when, in fact, there are many more less expensive and probably more cost-effective methods of member recruitment?

The people of Baltimore will have a preponderance of tissue paper now.

-CryptoLutheran

 

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Considering you said you never read the GC not sure how you came to that conclusion. I disagree she points back to the Scriptures and what she teaches is from the Bible.

I understand you don’t like the Adventist church, nothing will change your mind. That’s okay we can agree to disagree.

We have been drifting here and I apologize for being part of the drift. Perhaps you can share with us your understanding as to why the SDA went to the extreme action of mailing copies of THE GREAT CONTROVERSY to every postal address in Baltimore. What was the primary purpose?

 

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The people of Baltimore will have a preponderance of tissue paper now.

-CryptoLutheran

Very true. According to the NPR program many of the folks in Baltimore have been depositing their copies of THE GREAT CONTROVERSY in their recycling bins. Paper of all sorts which is recycled is frequently converted into the lovely toilet tissue we use.

 

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I think in this case these books were sent by Remnant Publications, which is an independent ministry. They have done such projects for some time in major cities.

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There have also been General Conference campaigns over the years. You can read some of these articles for more information.

The Great Controversy Project: An interview with Delbert W. Baker

By distributing The Great Controversy, we say to the world, “Here’s a simple message that we want you to read, and it’s one of the best you’ll find anywhere!”

www.ministrymagazine.org

“The Great Controversy” Project – North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists

www.nadadventist.org

8 Million Trees - Adventist Review

Is The Great Controversy project still worth it?

adventistreview.org

The Great Controversy 2.0 Project Reaches Prisons in Taiwan

The official news channel of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

adventist.news

 

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I think in this case these books were sent by Remnant Publications, which is an independent ministry. They have done such projects for some time in major cities.

Partner With Us to Spread the Gospel!

Remnant is a ministry that specializes in Christian books, Bibles, and resources that help a person walk with God.

remnantpublications.com

There have also been General Conference campaigns over the years. You can read some of these articles for more information.

The Great Controversy Project: An interview with Delbert W. Baker

By distributing The Great Controversy, we say to the world, “Here’s a simple message that we want you to read, and it’s one of the best you’ll find anywhere!”

www.ministrymagazine.org

“The Great Controversy” Project – North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists

www.nadadventist.org

8 Million Trees - Adventist Review

Is The Great Controversy project still worth it?

adventistreview.org

The Great Controversy 2.0 Project Reaches Prisons in Taiwan

The official news channel of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

adventist.news

Thank you. It seems that the purpose, when the dust all settles, is member recruitment, pure and simple. The SDA has unlimited faith in the power and efficacy of THE GREAT CONTROVERSY and apparently not the Bible.

In the first article there was the peculiar sentence, "She (Ellen White) had to have prophetic insight." Do you know why she needed to have prophetic insight?

In the third article is the really odd boast, "Third, the project will impact the planet when more than 8 million trees are felled to create the paper for the books." In light of the ecological havoc going on in places like the Amazonian rain forest which is steadily disappearing, I would not be boasting about the impact on the planet "when more than 8 million trees are felled to create the paper for the books."

In any event, this effort seems to be similar to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic as it was sinking. The SDA membership statistics worldwide are certainly no cause for rejoicing.