When did the SDA Cult realise that Ellen G Whites Investigative Judgement and Sabbath doctrines were false?>

The SDA Cult relies on three main doctrines to support their money making enterprise.  ( around 136,000,000vt in tithes out of Vanuatu each year in fact - according to a to the tithe envelope that fell into my hands.)

1. The teachings, writings and visions of Ellen G White as God given truth
2. The observance of the Sabbath
3. Investigative Judgement / Heavenly Sanctuary 

What many SDA members do not know is that the SDA leadership has known and kept hidden the fact that they admit that EGW was in fact a fraud in regards to her teaching on theSabbath and Investigative Judgement.  

The following brief highlights are copied from 

LYING FOR GOD:  What Adventists Knew And When They Knew It! 

7th Edition – July 17, 2012 Revision By Kerry B. Wynne, William H. Hohmann, Robert K. Sanders

The publication is available for download for free Here and I encolurage those of you serious enough to understand the lies that exist in the SDA cult take timeto read it.  The publication is a well researched and scholarly article.

1873 – The Church publishes a revised edition of J. N. Andrews’ classic, History of the Sabbath and the First Day of the Week. In this edition, Andrews quotes a respected very early historian, Joachim Neander (1650–1680): Now let us read what Neander, the most distinguished of church historians, says of this apostolic authority for Sunday observance:

“The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday.  Perhaps at the end of the second century a false application of this kind had begun to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered laboring on Sunday as a sin. (Emphasis by authors)

1887 – A powerful SDA leader, D. M. Canright, apostatizes from the Church and begins writing articles and papers against Adventism, including proof from historical and biblical sources that the Sabbath doctrine is impossible. By this time Canright is well aware of Ellen White's plagiarism, in addition to her failed prophecies and aberrant teachings.

1893 – The General Conference exiles Ellen White to Australia. From what the 1919 Bible Conference minutes later reveal  about what Adventist leaders knew about her, and from what we now know they knew about her as early as 1863 from the paper  by  Snook and Brinkerhoff,  there is  circumstantial  evidence that  the Church was aware of  the fact  that  their prophetess was causing a lot of trouble for Adventism at the time.  According to Arthur L. White, (Ellen G. White: The Australian Years, Review & Herald,  1983,  p. 16),  she sailed September  9,  1891.  [The facts for this event,  but  not  the  interpretation of  this  incident,  came from the paper,  “When the Visions Led:  an Adventist  Anomaly,” by  Douglas Hackleman, March 25, 2006.]

1905 – A. F. Ballenger, a prominent SDA leader in England, discovers there is no biblical support for the Doctrine of the Investigative Judgment.  Furthermore,  he finds that  the doctrine is  squarely  against  what  the Bible  teaches about  the concept of judgment and the Gospel. He writes of his concerns to Ellen White. Soon he is defrocked at a hearing held at the General  Conference headquarters in Washington, DC. During his presentation he is bombarded with questions from the“jury” from the writings of Ellen White, but no one can provide Bible proof for the doctrine. He is deprived of his SDA income; he is forced to live in near poverty as he attempts to find a way to feed his family back on the farm. (See “On Trial  for Heresy―The A. F. Ballenger Story,” by Dirk Anderson at Ellen White Exposed: www.ellenwhiteexposed.com/egw13.htm

1911 – The Church spends $3,000 to revise Ellen White’s book,  The Great Controversy, due to anger over the fact that she had plagiarized extensively. The revisions were demanded by Church leaders because she had copied from so many sources without giving credit to the original  authors while she, in general,  claimed that her work was directly inspired by God. It is this version of the book that has been sold world-wide ever since.   Dr. Stewart had done extensive research on Ellen’s plagiarism for  his 1907 booklet,  which placed her  plagiarisms alongside of  the original  sources she had not  credited.  Until Walter Rea discovered extensive plagiarism in the writings of Ellen White in the early 1980’s, Seventh-day Adventist leaders denied any knowledge of significant or extensive plagiarism by her as late as 1979.  This deception is 

incredible in view of the fact that it was an official Church action, taken under extreme public pressure, to correct her blatant copying in the single most important book to Adventism, The Great Controversy. (See Canright, Life of Mrs. E.G. White.)

1916 – On July 16,  1916,  Ellen White died deep in debt  from over-extending herself  to pay for  the personal  care and editorial staff she retained at her mansion at Elmshaven, California. The Church was forced to borrow money to settle her estate and acquire ownership of her publications. During her life-time she made more than the equivalent of two million dollars in today's dollar value (calculated in 2005) from her ministerial salary, which was paid from tithe funds, and from the royalties she received from the publication of her books. She had advised everyone else to follow the biblical principle of shunning debt, but apparently she felt that since she was writing books for God, she was entitled to be an exception to the rule.  No wonder she taught that it was wrong to use the tithe money for anything else but to pay the ministry!

1919 –  Top Adventist  leaders meet  secretly  for  several  days at  the 1919 Bible Conference to discuss their  growing realization that Ellen White was a fraud. They discuss her failed prophecies, historical errors, and her plagiarism, as well as other problems. They discuss whether to tell the truth about her at the time or to cover-up the whole thing. Special concern is expressed as to how to keep the truth about Ellen White from the Church's seminary students. You can access the portion of the transcripts that specifically deal with the fraudulent claims of Ellen White at its posting at Spectrum magazine at: http://www.spectrummagazine.org/files/archive/archive06-10/10-1couperus.pdf [ED: This link is broken now due to site redevelopment]

You can access the entire set of transcripts the General Conference Archives at:

http://www.adventistarchives.org/documents.asp?CatID=19&SortBy=1&ShowDateOrder=True [ ED: You will need DjVu reader to open these files.  The list of minutes is long and you will need to spend some time scanning the contents.

The stenographer's transcript of these meetings is ordered by General Conference president, A. G. Daniells, to be locked up in the vault and made inaccessible for 50 years. It will later be discovered in 1974.1919 – Top Adventist  leaders discuss the prophecies of  Daniel  7,  8,  and 11 at  the  1919 Bible Conference,  secretly conceding that  the little  horn of  Daniel  7 was a reference to Antiochus Epiphanes. They conclude that  this  fact  is  so dangerous to Adventism that knowledge of it should be kept from Seventh-day Adventist students.

1919 – In the 1919 Bible Conference discussion of the problems with Ellen White and specifically with her book, The Great Controversy, W. W. Prescott diminishes the 1911 assessment of the divine element in this book by stating:

You are touching exactly the experience through which I went, personally, because you all know that I contributed something toward the revision of Great Controversy. I furnished considerable material bearing upon that question . . . When I talked to W. C. White about it (and I do not know that he is an infallible authority), he told me frankly that when they got out Great Controversy, if they did not find in her writings anything in certain chapters to make the historical connections,  they took other  books,  like [Uriah Smith's]  Daniel  and the Revelation,  and used portions of them...

1961 – The General Conference president gives Dr. Raymond F. Cottrell the task of solving the Investigative Judgment problem. Cottrell sends a questionnaire out to a large number of Adventist scholars and theologians to poll their opinions. The analysis of Cottrell's survey indicates there is widespread concern that the doctrine cannot be supported from the Bible alone. The General Conference orders the formation of a top secret committee. The committee's task is to meet until it can find  the  biblical  support  the  Church  needs  to  validate  the  Sanctuary  Doctrine/Investigative  Judgment  concept.  The committee includes an elite group of SDA Bible scholars and theologians. (See Cottrell, “The Sanctuary Doctrine: asset or
liability?”).

1968 –  The secret  Sanctuary Doctrine committee disbands without reaching any conclusion.  The committee studied 48 papers by competent SDA Bible scholars and theologians. The total failure of the committee to find support for the doctrine is kept secret. The existence of this secret committee will not be known until Dr. Cottrell retires from the Church and can write and speak what  he wants without  fear  of  losing his  employment  with the Church.

1974 – (Some authorities say 1975) – Dr. F. Donald Yost receives special  permission to do research in the vault  at the General Conference in Washington, DC. In the very back of the vault he finds a brown package hidden under a pile of dust. He opens it up and finds the stenographer's transcript of a secret meeting of top SDA leaders at the 1919 Bible Conference.  He removes the package from the vault. In reading it he discovers that almost without exception, each key Adventist leader expresses his or her conviction that Ellen White is essentially a fraud. This amazing document will be published 5 years later (1979) in Spectrum, Volume 10, No. 1. (Spectrum is a liberal Seventh-day Adventist related independent publication that is barely tolerated by the Church.) These leaders discuss whether the Church should tell the truth about her or continue  the cover-up including the pros and cons of either choice. If a cover-up plan is to be implemented, they wrestle with the problem of how they would keep the truth about her from their seminary students.

1979 (MAY)  –
Spectrum Magazine publishes the  1919 Bible Conference Minutes in its May issue.  This event  provided
absolute proof that Adventist leaders had known for certain that Ellen White was a fraud for a very long time. The Church admits nothing and continues to present her as a true prophet.

1979 (SEPTEMBER) -  Robert  Olson,  Secretary of  the White Estate,  publishes a short  paper  about  the 1919 Bible  Conference Minutes. (See Olson, Robert W., “The 1919 Conference and Bible and History Teachers' Council.” Washington, DC: Ellen G. White Estate, September 24, 1979. 10p. Heritage Room DF [BIBLE CONFERENCE – 1919]).

After 1979 there is no excuse for the SDA Church to continue to promote Ellen White as a true prophetess, to continue to deny that she was guilty of plagiarism on a massive scale, and to evade the issue that whether she plagiarized or not,-- she lied about the sources of her material.   While we are not  certain when the  1919 Bible Conference Minutes fell  into Dr. Olson's hands between the time of its theft from the vault in 1974 and its publication by Spectrum in May of 1979, Dr. Olson's 1979 article proves that he had full access to it by no later than 1979.

Meanwhile, the SDA cult continues to make huge money from those it has deceived.

1Tim 6:3-5 If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions, and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.