The Duplicity of the Critics

[David Conklin]

Here's the latest whopper.

You are told:

"... for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself....

Ellen White, The Spirit of Prophecy Volume Four, p 277"

But, when you look on that page there's no such quote. The reality is:

When the papal bull reached Luther, he said: "I despise it, and resist it, as impious and false. It is Christ himself who is condemned therein." "I glory in the prospect of suffering for the best of causes. Already I feel greater liberty; for I know now that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself." The Spirit of Prophecy Vol. Four (1884), page 117, paragraph 3

This is yet another example of why you cannot trust the critics of either Ellen G. White or the SDA church to tell you the truth. I will.

 

[David Conklin]

Just finished re-doing the work Poirer had done on chapter 5 in SoC ("Consecration"). It is interesting that even when borrowing from herself EGW edited the work and placed the quotes in new settings.

Of course, the critics would tell you that she copied slavishly and wouldn't tell you that putting quotes in new settings was an acceptable literary practice back then.