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The White Lie

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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.

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 There is more to it, the White State, has a safe where they hide her "God Ispired" unpublished writings.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?"

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.

Ellen Gould Harmond White, her personal opinions and teachings, are the very foundation of the church. Everything they say, teach, and preach can be traced in someway or the other back down to her. If this foundation remains weak and broken, where does that leave the SDA Church? It leaves it weak and broken, just like their mother Mrs. White. This book makes that clear. Ellen White's "angels" were other books which she copied to an amazing length. What sort of prophetess is this? I fear that Adventists won't get the clue before it's too late, and all they'll hear will be "O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" (St. Matthew 3:7)

The SDA church has tried to counter the plagerism issue by stating that the Bible itself contains copied work from other writers.

This book shows that even Ellen White's "visions" contianed word for word quotes from published authors before her, that she elevated her writings as equal to the Bible by stating that to doubt her was to doubt God himself, and reveals a cover up by the church itself regarding her revelations. Find failed predictions by Mrs. White and how she abandoned the theology of the "Shut Door" after it was clear that Jesus was not coming back in her lifetime.

Mr. Rea was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who was totally devoted to the writings of Ellen G. White. In his devotion he decided to read books that Mrs. White was known to own and read. What he found in these other books was the same sequence of thought, wording, and word for word quotes that Mrs. White claimed as her own.

After further investigation, Mr Rea found incontrivertable proof of extensive plagerism by Mrs. White. Through numerous side by side comparisons, Mr. Rea shows proof positive that instead of being a phophet, Mrs. Whate was a plagerist.

This book is a must read for any one considering joining the Seventh-day Adventist church or for any SDA who s open-minded enough to accept the truth about their church and its founder.

Having read this book as well as the reviews of it, I can only conclude that some people will receive the truth with fury. I personally have great respect and gratitude to Walter Rea for exposing the "prophetess" for what she really was. A careful reading of Rea's book reveals that Ellen G. White was not divinely inspired as she stated so many times, but was a cunning plagiarist, whose stolen work and ideas continues to generate money for the organization to this day.

Walter Rea may have a chip on his shoulder as he writes this book but the information he recorded it true and a hard pill to swallow for Seventh-Day Adventists. I really didn't read this book until I had already left the SDA church. I read it after one of my relatives claimed that their prophet Ellen White had predicted the Sept 11 tradegy, which is not true. So I set off to write a 19 page paper on the top of Ellen White's prophetic claims and I leaned heavily on Walter Rea's book as well as my past experiences in the church. If you want to read it go to: http://customer.wcta.net/sly/egw.htm
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This book is a shocking expose of Seventh-day Adventism's prophetess Ellen White. Walter Rea provides significant documentation revealing Ellen White's plagiaristic activities. This impressive book leaves no doubt as to the massive extent that Mrs. White relied on the writings of other authors for her inspirational books. There is no better documented book dealing with this subject on the market today. A must-read for Seventh-day Adventists and others serious about learning the truth about Ellen White.

That EGW was a plagiarist was well known by leaders of seventh day adventism; Canright gave detailed information about that; it was known more than 100 years ago. What makes his book a great book is that exposes how this facts were covered up and gives details about the church and the White Estate. The book is written in a way that if you read it you will leave the church inmediatelly. If you are looking for a diferent book that also shows plagiarism by EGW you can read Prophetess of Health by Mr. Number.