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A Bitter Pill, July 14, 2004
I found this book to be well written and researched. It takes a hard look at the people and movements that set themselves up as divinely inspired, demanding that all accept whatever "truth" is proclaimed from the mountain top without questioning the backroom manipulations of the message. If you are a Seventh-day Adventist looking for something to boost your faith in Ellen White, the SDA pioneer or "prophetess", be forewarned that this book will prove to be a bitter pill to swallow. Rea exposes the lie that Ellen White wrote her own material. She borrowed liberally from writers of her time. The author provides full documentation of White's borrowings and gives an account of the church's efforts to stifle his inquiry. Readers may find that Rea applies sarcasm too thickly to his subject but that does not detract from its central message.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Book Available for under $20.00, October 17, 2007
Book Available for under $20.00 at Truth Bookstore at www.truthbooks.net, 1-800-428-0121. I bought some of the referenced books (the ones she plagarized) and compared them to her actual books. I did find they did in fact were copied. I got some of the books she copied from. They are very, very old, 1800 - 1900's at several antique stores. I put White books side to side with those antique books and she dis in fact copied from them, in some cases word by word. I do not just rely on the author Rea, I did my own little research and came to the same conclusions. I am an ex-Adventist. Was Adventist since 10 years old, now I am 42 and realize I was deceived by the SDA. There is more to it, the White State, has a safe where they hide her "God Ispired" unpublished writings. If they are inspired from God to the world, why are they hidden in a vault in Washington by the White Estate? Because they contain so many contradictions and will "raise too many questions" they say.
If the book is sold out at store referenced above you can read an almost identical content of the whole book for free at: http://www.bible.ca/7-plagiarism.htm, "E.G. White: The Inspired Prophet?"
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The White Lie tells the ugly truth ..., September 30, 2007
Rea's findings are pretty irrefutable. However, the Seventh-day Adventist church has spent decades refuting them in defense of the "prophetess" upon whose plagiarized writings the church's doctrine is *entirely* based. However clear Rea's books may be, it's not as clear as the scriptural test of a prophet, which Ellen White fails miserably. You have to decide whom you want to believe -- the black-and-white facts, or the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Would you accept as pure and unquestionable truth Scientology's assessment of its beliefs and teachings, or would you do further research? Of COURSE the SDA church is going to go through all kinds of contortions to defend White's "divine" inspiration -- it's the very spine of their church, which has become a multi-billion-dollar corporation with an image that *must* be maintained in order for it to survive. For the TRUTH, you need only consult the Bible, but if that's not enough for you, then you must look beyond what the church says about itself and its "prophetess", and Rea's book is one of the best books available to help you find that truth. The Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that the Catholic church (the "papacy", as they prefer to call it) is a false religion, that the pope is the anti-Christ, and that in the "end times", the Catholic church will take over the world and pass a law that requires *everyone* to worship on Sunday or they will be imprisoned and executed. Then, in defense of Ellen White, they turn to a *Catholic* to "prove" that she was not a plagiarist and claim that *becaues* he's a Catholic -- a "papist" -- then he *must* be unbiased and unquestionably truthful. Their own arguments make no sense at all. In order to be a "good" Seventh-day Adventist, you *must* accept everything the church says about itself and its "prophetess" as *absolute unquestionable truth*, and reject as a satanic deception all information that comes from *any other* source. (To defend White, what do Adventists do? They quote the writings of the very church that *needs* White to be a prophetess of God in order to survive -- and they don't even seem to see the hollow, empty, and senseless nature of what they're doing. How much sense does THAT make?) To be a reasonable, thinking, well-informed individual, you MUST go outside the church to gather the facts about its history and its "prophetess", and when you do that -- whether with the Bible, with Rea's book THE WHITE LIE, or other similar *factual* sources -- the church's claims crumble into pieces. Walter Rea has provided a clear and concise look at a truth that has been carefully, willfully, and actively hidden by the Seventh-day Adventist church for well over a century. It's a shame it's not more readily available -- but if you're an Adventist looking for the truth, or are considering Adventism, it's worth the price of a copy.
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