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Here's an interesting post from another SDA forum:
I grew up an SDA and so did my husband. When were young we scraped the table clean of our parents beliefs and one by one we placed the doctrines back on--only after we had studied each one and understood it for ourselves. The result was that we put everything back on within a few weeks except for EGW. We had heard she said this and that all of our lives. We were not convinced she was a prophet so we didn't put her back on the table for five years. I would say people mis-using her words to scare us or judge us when we were young, was blocking us from having an open mind to explore her writings. Then one day, we were traveling near Elmshaven so we stopped because my grandmother who loved EGW's writings, would be devasted if I didn't stop and tour the house. I did it for Grandma. There I met EGW's great granddaughter, who gave me a book called Stories of My Grandmother and reading that book showed us that she was a real person who laughed and made mistakes and loved kids. That book finally convinced us that she was prophet. During the five years that we didn't believe in her, our pastors were awesome! They told us we didn't have to believe in her to be an Adventist and so we stayed.
http://www.heavenlysanctuary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=47203
Interesting. It seems the actual situation being played out in the local church setting is quite a bit different from the 'eat it all or leave it all/love it or lump it' propaganda the Trads here try and force down our throats.
Red, some of your OWN CLERY are saying this to thier membership.My OWN PASTOR made the same statement to me before my baptism. He told me that EGW was NOT a test of membership and she was NOT supposed to be made one. He said all that was required was that I acknowledge the SDA church believes in the spiritual gifts, prophecy included. I did NOT have to profess allegiance to belief in her prophetic status either before or during the ceremony. Perhaps he left that part out of the vows deliberately, but I never heard it. His position was to just let me search out the issue for myself and come to my own conclusions, just like the woman in the above quote.
Yes, there are many pastors who do not require affirmation of all 28 FBs, including EGW, before they will baptize people.
On a side note, I don't really understand how realizing that EGW was a real person who made mistakes, laughed, and loved kids was convincing evidence of her prophetic status to this woman that you quoted. Those are not the biblical tests of a prophet.
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