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Jan 2020 - Catholic Herald lists Ellen White in -- "Heretic of the Week"
So no doubt they find that the Catholic denomination and the Seventh-day Adventist denomination differ on some doctrines - but the question is do they get "the details right" about what they claim Adventists teach, or what the historic facts of the 1800's were?
Heretic of the week: Ellen G White - Catholic Herald
1. They claim that William Miller (who was never a Seventh-day Adventist BTW) claimed to be prophet. (which of course he did not).
Miller never claimed to be a prophet. He claimed to be able to study the Bible and understand prophecy - much like someone in Christ's day would read Daniel 9 and claim that the time had come for the Messiah to appear. Reading Daniel 9 would not make them a prophet. See that publication does not do well on that particular "detail".
As for "predicting two dates" - Miller never gave any specific date - from his own study .. rather he thought that 1833-1844 spring (any time in that year) was the year that Daniel 8:14 pointed to as the year for the second coming.
(of course we now know that Dan 8:14 was not talking about the 2nd coming).
Samuel Snow then argued for another date - Oct 22, 1844 which Miller rejected but then eventually in the month of October he joined the group that was promoting Oct 22.
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How does that article do on the other claims it makes?
So no doubt they find that the Catholic denomination and the Seventh-day Adventist denomination differ on some doctrines - but the question is do they get "the details right" about what they claim Adventists teach, or what the historic facts of the 1800's were?
Heretic of the week: Ellen G White - Catholic Herald
1. They claim that William Miller (who was never a Seventh-day Adventist BTW) claimed to be prophet. (which of course he did not).
"Adding to the general excitement, a self-described biblical prophet, William Miller, came up with two dates for Doomsday in that fraught decade"
Miller never claimed to be a prophet. He claimed to be able to study the Bible and understand prophecy - much like someone in Christ's day would read Daniel 9 and claim that the time had come for the Messiah to appear. Reading Daniel 9 would not make them a prophet. See that publication does not do well on that particular "detail".
As for "predicting two dates" - Miller never gave any specific date - from his own study .. rather he thought that 1833-1844 spring (any time in that year) was the year that Daniel 8:14 pointed to as the year for the second coming.
(of course we now know that Dan 8:14 was not talking about the 2nd coming).
Samuel Snow then argued for another date - Oct 22, 1844 which Miller rejected but then eventually in the month of October he joined the group that was promoting Oct 22.
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How does that article do on the other claims it makes?
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