It is a well-established fact that Ellen White’s “The Great Controversy" was massively plagiarized, i.e. “stolen,” from "The History of Protestantism" by James A. Wylie. White stole not only entire paragraphs pages and chapters from Wylie, but she claimed to be the author of the writings. She also stole whole illustrations out of Wylie’s books and attributed them in The Great Controversy under an Adventist publishing company’s name, instead of the original writer's names!!! The outright theft of much of The Great Controversy from Wylie is beyond dispute.
Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying)
The massive literary and artistic theft that took place is certainly disturbing and alarming and completely refutes White’s calculated and deceptive statement that she saw the material in “visions.” She simply repeatedly lied about the source of the material. She never had any of the visions that she claimed: It is proven that she simply stole the vast, overwhelming majority of "her" book from Wylie.
Yet that is far from being the most egregious fraud in the Massively-fraudulent "The Great Controversy". The complete absence of the Eastern Orthodox Church and its staunch opposition to the Roman Papacy is a more egregious fraud that has enslaved and deceived generations of Adventists. No Adventist literature has ever mentioned, let alone discussed, let alone refuted the adamant insistence of Eastern Orthodoxy that it celebrated the Resurrection both on Sunday and on the First year birthday (“Easter”
in the first year of Christianity. That assertion stands completely unmentioned and uncontested in The Great Controversy. For a book that purports to be a history of Christianity, this is extremely alarming and disturbing, especially in light of the massive proven literary and artistic theft from Wylie:
"As Robert D. Brinsmead so clearly illustrated in his paper, "Sabbatarianism Re-examined" (1981), by the 1960's a much clearer picture of the Early Church had emerged from continuing scholarly research, and this clearer portrait spelled disaster for Sabbatarians. Church historians found strong evidence that the Gentile churches probably never kept the Sabbath and that the Jewish churches that did cling to Sabbath-keeping slid very quickly into fatal heresies."
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"The Eastern Orthodox churches never kept the Sabbath. For the first 3-4 centuries after the death of St. Paul the Eastern Church greatly eclipsed the Western Church. In fact the Church at Rome was a missionary outreach established by the Eastern Church."
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"An understanding of the overshadowing supremacy of the Eastern Orthodox Churches during the first few centuries after the death of St. Paul is essential to understanding the immensity of the problem these facts pose to Sabbatarians. It is no wonder that Sabbatarian literature never mentions this subject."
Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD
It gets even worse. Leaving the claims of the Eastern Orthodox Church unmentioned and undisputed is horrific in light of The Great Controversy’s central thesis that the Pope unilaterally “changed Saturday to Sunday.” That in itself is yet another horrendous, deliberate falsehood. The willfulness of this deceit can only be comprehended by looking at Wylie’s book itself, which White clearly had and massively stole from. Wylie did not shrink from describing Eastern Orthodoxy’s staunch opposition to the growing power of the Papacy. White had to have seen the following in Wyle’s book as she was stealing from it, but never addressed it in The Great Controversy. Because she did not, she committed most likely the most horrific and stomach-churning fraud of them all: Willfully and deliberately omitting any mention of Eastern Orthodoxy when it is clear that she knew about Wylie’s description of the growing rupture between the Eastern Church and the Roman Papacy. Here are some excerpts from Wylie that demonstrates that Seventh Day Adventism is founded on extraordinarily egregious frauds on several different levels:
“They now began to speak with an authoritative voice, and to demand obedience from all the Churches. Of this the dispute between the Eastern and Western Churches respecting Easter is an instance in point. The Eastern Church, following the Jews, kept the feast on the 14th day of the month Nisan [6] — the day of the Jewish Passover. The Churches of the West, and especially that of Rome, kept Easter on the Sabbath following the 14th day of Nisan. Victor, Bishop of Rome, resolved to put an end to the controversy, and accordingly, sustaining himself sole judge in this weighty point, he commanded all the Churches to observe the feast on the same day with himself. The Churches of the East, not aware that the Bishop of Rome had authority to command their obedience in this or in any other matter, kept Easter as before; and for this flagrant contempt, as Victor accounted it, of his legitimate authority, he excommunicated them. They refused to obey a human ordinance, and they were shut out from the kingdom of the Gospel. This was the first peal of those thunders which were in after times to roll so often and so terribly from the Seven Hills…….
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“Manifestly the 300 Fathers who assembled (A.D. 325) at Nicaea knew nothing of it, for in their sixth and seventh canons they expressly recognize the authority of the Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and others, each within its own boundaries, even as Rome had jurisdiction within its limits; and enact that the jurisdiction and privileges of these Churches shall be retained…….”
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“The Latin race, moreover, retained the practical habits for which it had so long been renowned; and while the Easterns, giving way to their speculative genius, were expending their energies in controversy, the Western Church was steadily pursuing her onward path, and skillfully availing herself of everything that could tend to enhance her influence and extend her jurisdiction.
From: The History of Protestantism By James A. Wylie.
The History of Protestantism – Volume First – Book First – Progress From the First to the Fourteenth Century | doctrine.org 1
To recap,
- White stole most of the Great Controversy from Wylie.
- She devised a cunningly false false fairy tale that the Roman Papacy had unilaterally changed the worship dates from Saturday to Sunday. That has been thoroughly debunked by Seventh Day Adventism's only premier Sabbath Scholar, Dr. Samuele Bacchiochi. .
- White never once mentions Eastern Orthodoxy ‘s undisputed claim that First Year Christianity celebrated the Resurrection on both Sundays and at Easter. Neither does Bacchiochi in his voluminous writings.
- White never once mentions the massive writings of First and Second Christian Fathers who clearly establish that First and Second History Christians were universally worshiping on Sunday, at least 200 years before a Roman Pope even existed. By the time of the later revisions of The Great Controversy,the Church had been blasted and responded to, Dudley Canright's Seventh Day Adventism Renouncedand was very well aware of the writings of the early Christian Fathers, and the clear statements evidencing Sunday commemoration of the Resurrection in the First Century. NOT ONE WAS MENTIONED IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THE SDA CHURCH LEADERSHIP KNEW THOSE EARLY WRITERS DEMOLISHED THE ARGUMENT THAT THE POPE CHANGED THE DATE IN THE 300S.
-White never mentions the writings of First and Second Century Church Fathers and their relentless battle against the early heresy of the Ebionites, which was and is identical to Adventism in both its Sabbath Keeping and Vegetarianism as the path to Salvation.
- And finally, White deliberately withheld Wylie’s description of the growing fracture between Eastern Orthodoxy and the Papacy, even though she plagiarized the vast majority of The Great Controversy from Wylie. She obviously did all of this to deceive Adventists into keeping the Sabbath as part of their paranoid “Remnant Church” fraud.
The massive fraud of the Great Controversy runs at least four or five levels deep. It is the foundational book of Seventh Day Adventism, and spells out its entire paranoid and deceitful ideology of itself as the Remnant Church in opposition to the "monolithic" Papacy’s Sunday worship "heresy." By deliberately and deceitfully withholding any mention of Eastern Orthodoxy’s adamant insistence of Christianity’s first year Sunday worship and Easter Celebration, even with it staring her right in the face in the book she was stealing from – White founded a Church that is based on massive, proven and grotesque falsehoods.
Ellen G. White found guilty of plagiarism (copying)
The massive literary and artistic theft that took place is certainly disturbing and alarming and completely refutes White’s calculated and deceptive statement that she saw the material in “visions.” She simply repeatedly lied about the source of the material. She never had any of the visions that she claimed: It is proven that she simply stole the vast, overwhelming majority of "her" book from Wylie.
Yet that is far from being the most egregious fraud in the Massively-fraudulent "The Great Controversy". The complete absence of the Eastern Orthodox Church and its staunch opposition to the Roman Papacy is a more egregious fraud that has enslaved and deceived generations of Adventists. No Adventist literature has ever mentioned, let alone discussed, let alone refuted the adamant insistence of Eastern Orthodoxy that it celebrated the Resurrection both on Sunday and on the First year birthday (“Easter”
in the first year of Christianity. That assertion stands completely unmentioned and uncontested in The Great Controversy. For a book that purports to be a history of Christianity, this is extremely alarming and disturbing, especially in light of the massive proven literary and artistic theft from Wylie: "As Robert D. Brinsmead so clearly illustrated in his paper, "Sabbatarianism Re-examined" (1981), by the 1960's a much clearer picture of the Early Church had emerged from continuing scholarly research, and this clearer portrait spelled disaster for Sabbatarians. Church historians found strong evidence that the Gentile churches probably never kept the Sabbath and that the Jewish churches that did cling to Sabbath-keeping slid very quickly into fatal heresies."
......
"The Eastern Orthodox churches never kept the Sabbath. For the first 3-4 centuries after the death of St. Paul the Eastern Church greatly eclipsed the Western Church. In fact the Church at Rome was a missionary outreach established by the Eastern Church."
......
"An understanding of the overshadowing supremacy of the Eastern Orthodox Churches during the first few centuries after the death of St. Paul is essential to understanding the immensity of the problem these facts pose to Sabbatarians. It is no wonder that Sabbatarian literature never mentions this subject."
Sabbatatrians Refuted and Sabbath keepers Exposed: 2011 AD
It gets even worse. Leaving the claims of the Eastern Orthodox Church unmentioned and undisputed is horrific in light of The Great Controversy’s central thesis that the Pope unilaterally “changed Saturday to Sunday.” That in itself is yet another horrendous, deliberate falsehood. The willfulness of this deceit can only be comprehended by looking at Wylie’s book itself, which White clearly had and massively stole from. Wylie did not shrink from describing Eastern Orthodoxy’s staunch opposition to the growing power of the Papacy. White had to have seen the following in Wyle’s book as she was stealing from it, but never addressed it in The Great Controversy. Because she did not, she committed most likely the most horrific and stomach-churning fraud of them all: Willfully and deliberately omitting any mention of Eastern Orthodoxy when it is clear that she knew about Wylie’s description of the growing rupture between the Eastern Church and the Roman Papacy. Here are some excerpts from Wylie that demonstrates that Seventh Day Adventism is founded on extraordinarily egregious frauds on several different levels:
“They now began to speak with an authoritative voice, and to demand obedience from all the Churches. Of this the dispute between the Eastern and Western Churches respecting Easter is an instance in point. The Eastern Church, following the Jews, kept the feast on the 14th day of the month Nisan [6] — the day of the Jewish Passover. The Churches of the West, and especially that of Rome, kept Easter on the Sabbath following the 14th day of Nisan. Victor, Bishop of Rome, resolved to put an end to the controversy, and accordingly, sustaining himself sole judge in this weighty point, he commanded all the Churches to observe the feast on the same day with himself. The Churches of the East, not aware that the Bishop of Rome had authority to command their obedience in this or in any other matter, kept Easter as before; and for this flagrant contempt, as Victor accounted it, of his legitimate authority, he excommunicated them. They refused to obey a human ordinance, and they were shut out from the kingdom of the Gospel. This was the first peal of those thunders which were in after times to roll so often and so terribly from the Seven Hills…….
……
“Manifestly the 300 Fathers who assembled (A.D. 325) at Nicaea knew nothing of it, for in their sixth and seventh canons they expressly recognize the authority of the Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and others, each within its own boundaries, even as Rome had jurisdiction within its limits; and enact that the jurisdiction and privileges of these Churches shall be retained…….”
……
“The Latin race, moreover, retained the practical habits for which it had so long been renowned; and while the Easterns, giving way to their speculative genius, were expending their energies in controversy, the Western Church was steadily pursuing her onward path, and skillfully availing herself of everything that could tend to enhance her influence and extend her jurisdiction.
From: The History of Protestantism By James A. Wylie.
The History of Protestantism – Volume First – Book First – Progress From the First to the Fourteenth Century | doctrine.org 1
To recap,
- White stole most of the Great Controversy from Wylie.
- She devised a cunningly false false fairy tale that the Roman Papacy had unilaterally changed the worship dates from Saturday to Sunday. That has been thoroughly debunked by Seventh Day Adventism's only premier Sabbath Scholar, Dr. Samuele Bacchiochi. .
- White never once mentions Eastern Orthodoxy ‘s undisputed claim that First Year Christianity celebrated the Resurrection on both Sundays and at Easter. Neither does Bacchiochi in his voluminous writings.
- White never once mentions the massive writings of First and Second Christian Fathers who clearly establish that First and Second History Christians were universally worshiping on Sunday, at least 200 years before a Roman Pope even existed. By the time of the later revisions of The Great Controversy,the Church had been blasted and responded to, Dudley Canright's Seventh Day Adventism Renouncedand was very well aware of the writings of the early Christian Fathers, and the clear statements evidencing Sunday commemoration of the Resurrection in the First Century. NOT ONE WAS MENTIONED IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THE SDA CHURCH LEADERSHIP KNEW THOSE EARLY WRITERS DEMOLISHED THE ARGUMENT THAT THE POPE CHANGED THE DATE IN THE 300S.
-White never mentions the writings of First and Second Century Church Fathers and their relentless battle against the early heresy of the Ebionites, which was and is identical to Adventism in both its Sabbath Keeping and Vegetarianism as the path to Salvation.
- And finally, White deliberately withheld Wylie’s description of the growing fracture between Eastern Orthodoxy and the Papacy, even though she plagiarized the vast majority of The Great Controversy from Wylie. She obviously did all of this to deceive Adventists into keeping the Sabbath as part of their paranoid “Remnant Church” fraud.
The massive fraud of the Great Controversy runs at least four or five levels deep. It is the foundational book of Seventh Day Adventism, and spells out its entire paranoid and deceitful ideology of itself as the Remnant Church in opposition to the "monolithic" Papacy’s Sunday worship "heresy." By deliberately and deceitfully withholding any mention of Eastern Orthodoxy’s adamant insistence of Christianity’s first year Sunday worship and Easter Celebration, even with it staring her right in the face in the book she was stealing from – White founded a Church that is based on massive, proven and grotesque falsehoods.
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