BobRyan said:
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Ellen White predicted that the Northern army would win but that God would not allow a swift victory. She also predicted that the United States would become the singular dominant world super power.
What is the date of publication on the book where you read that? Because it is well known that Ellen White did edit prophecies proved wrong in order to make them align with reality.
1. At the time Ellen White dies (1915) the United States was not yet a super power and world war 1 would not end for almost 3 more years (and even then the U.S. would not yet be the one world super power) -- were you thinking that she would come back from the grave and "edit" something?
2. As for the part about not allowing too swift a victory for the North - August 26, 1861
And in her early writings at least, I was disturbed to find she confessed Arianism:
She was United Methodist and then SDA - and always was Trinitarian.
“The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty.” - Ellen G White
She held to the Phil 2 teaching that while fully God and fully man - Jesus had "emptied himself" and was not appearing on Earth in blazing glory as eternal God -- rather he humbled himself as scripture says.
She stated that Christ had
two natures (human
and divine) as the Son of God on Earth incarnated as Jesus Christ.
BTW that same quote says this "
Who is this that thus announced His purpose of becoming incarnate and visiting a guilty world? {Ms140-1903.18}
We ask Isaiah who He is, and he answers, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” [Isaiah 9:6.] {Ms140-1903.19}
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Be careful of half-truths on some agenda driven websites prone to deleting context and other key details.
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"Desire of Ages" is her commentary on the life of Christ. (DA 663)
“If ye had known Me,” Christ said, “ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.” But not yet did the disciples understand. “Lord, show us the Father,” exclaimed Philip, “and it sufficeth us.” {DA 663.4}
Amazed at his dullness of comprehension, Christ asked with pained surprise, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?” Is it possible that you do not see the Father in the works He does through Me? Do you not believe that I came to testify of the Father? “How sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”
Christ had not ceased to be God when He became man. Though He had humbled Himself to humanity,
the Godhead was still His own. Christ alone could represent the Father to humanity, and this representation the disciples had been privileged to behold for over three years. {DA 663.5}
“Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.” Their faith might safely rest on the evidence given in Christ’s works, works that no man, of himself, ever had done, or ever could do. Christ’s work testified to His divinity. Through Him the Father had been revealed. {DA 664.1}
If the disciples believed this vital connection between the Father and the Son, their faith would not forsake them when they saw Christ’s suffering and death to save a perishing world. Christ was seeking to lead them from their low condition of faith to the experience they might receive if they truly realized
what He was,—God in human flesh. He desired them to see that their faith must lead up to God, and be anchored there. How earnestly and perseveringly our compassionate Saviour sought to prepare His disciples for the storm of temptation that was soon to beat upon them. He would have them hid with Him in God. {DA 664.2}
As Christ was speaking these words, the glory of God was shining from His countenance, and all present felt a sacred awe as they listened with rapt attention to His words. Their hearts were more decidedly drawn to Him; and as they were drawn to Christ in greater love, they were drawn to one another. They felt that heaven was very near, and that the words to which they listened were a message to them from their heavenly Father. {DA 664.3}
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I don't mind addressing these questions - but my purpose was to discuss the more general topic of what the Bible says about prophets and sola scriptura testing of all doctrine.