Talk:Ellen G. White/Archive 1

message: I wonder how neutral it is to say that [all] Seventh-day Adventists see Ellen G. White as a source of authority and so forth, when she herself stated otherwise? Something to the nature of "If ya'll'd been reading your bible, i wouldnt have been called to do this" and "im not the bible, i make mistakes." please note these arent actual quotes, but gievn the time i could find them for you. User:MilquetoastCJW
:I do not think it is neutral. Personally I have always been aware that she was quoted as saying that, or wrote that, she was not an authority. I don't recall reading the particular statements about her lack of need to come if they had been more diligent. I think it would be quite relevant to have a quote to that effect on the page. Thanks, Ansell 22:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: Here are the "amalgamation" quotes mentioned on this page, where this link is given: http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/amalg.html
"The only passages in Mrs. White's writings that are of interest in this connection are found in Spiritual Gifts, volume 3, already mentioned and republished in Spirit of Prophecy, volume 1, in 1870. The first, in chapter 6, "Crime Before the Flood," is this:
'But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere. God purposed to destroy by a flood that powerful, long-lived race that had corrupted their ways before him.'--Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, p. 64.
Chapter 7 is entitled "The Flood," and contains this statement:
'Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the Flood. Since the Flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men.'--Page 75.
These are Mrs. White's only statements on the subject of the amalgamation of man and beast"  
Maybe she was suggesting dinosaurs, and cavemen where the results of experimental breeding by men who had an average lifespan of around 900 years, and didn't have anything better to do with their time.
Who knows? But I wouldn't try to say Ellen White was racist, because she herself was half black, having a black father.
:Interjection Actually, Robert Harmon was very white. Her nose, which is probably what you are citing, was caused by a full-frontal face assault, by a thrown rock. Her face was mostly shattered, and her nose was never narrow, or caucasian in structure, again. user:MilquetoastCJW
Maybe she was making this statment in a nuetral kind of way.  Like to demonstrate something she believed happened in the past by something we can see today.  For example: we have many races of dogs, that are the result of mankind "amalgamating", or breeding animals.  There are also many races of mankind that are the result of inter-racial breeding.
--Rush4hire 15:56, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
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