Discern Fact from Fiction

A Response to the Video:
Seventh-day Adventism — The Spirit Behind the Church

by Bob Pickle

This book is a response to a video put together by five former Adventist preachers, a video attacking Ellen White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The 200+ replies in A Response to the Video are thorough, biblical, and well-documented. It's all yours for only $9.95, plus shipping (calculated on the Check Out page). 8.5" x 11"; 160 pp.

Do you have questions? Have you seen the numerous allegations against Ellen White on web sites, in books, or on this video? Are you troubled by the accusations made by former Adventist preachers like Mark Martin, Dale Ratzlaff, and Sydney Cleveland, and by the book The White Lie? Want to get the other side of the story as you decide for yourself what is truth and what is error? Then A Response to the Video is for you!

What makes A Response to the Video particularly helpful is the fact that it quotes extensively and directly each accusation. In one volume you get both sides of each question at the same time.

And there is definitely another side to the story. While one would expect these former Adventist ministers to be both experts on Ellen White and accurate in their accusations, A Response to the Video reveals that such is not the case at all.

A Response to the Video contains 239 replies organized into the following sections:

1. Initial Points
2. The Millerite Movement
3. The Role of Mrs. White and Her Writings
4. Her Predictions and Views
5. The Investigative Judgment and Shut Door, and Their Ramifications
6. Bible Versions and Footnotes
7. Other Doctrines; the Jehovah's Witnesses
8. Jehovah's Witnesses, Cont.; Plagiarism
9. Health Counsel, Wigs, and the Reform Dress
10. Salvation, Grace, and Obedience
11. Salvation, Cont.; Conditional Immortality
12. The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast
13. Sunday vs. the Lord's Day, and the Scapegoat
14. Wrapping Up the Case
15. Testimonials, Documentation, and the Video Jacket

A Response to the Video gets right to the point on a host of topics dealing with Ellen White, and Adventist history and teachings. No, Mrs. White didn't plagiarize (and neither did Matthew, Mark, and Luke), and there never was any lawsuit (pp. 75-77). Strangely enough, some of the quotes attributed to her in the video either were from books she didn't write, were altered, or don't exist (p. 13). Sometimes all you have to do is fill in a few ellipses here and read a little context there to discover that the truth is the opposite of the allegation (e.g. pp. 35, 36, 95, 96).

If the critics won't give you a balanced picture, then yes, you have to get the other side before making a decision about Ellen White. And A Response to the Video is the easiest way for you to do it. You'll also get some tools to use if you need to do further research: 1) basic questions to ask the one making allegations, and 2) resources available for finding additional answers.

Some readers have found A Response to the Video so intriguing that they couldn't put it down until they had read it through in its entirety.

From the back cover, hear what one prominent Baptist preacher had to say about Seventh-day Adventists in 1987:

In a special sense the founders of your movement were people to whom God spoke. He wanted to create a special witness so that the rest of His church could look at the faithfulness of your movement. He wanted the rest of the church to say, "We could learn from them. We will be better people. We will be more obedient to our heavenly Father, and our Saviour, because we have watched the walk of the Adventists. We have watched the price they have paid. We have watched as they have been ostracized, as they have been misunderstood, as they have been slandered. But there will come a time when it’s clear why they have had to go through these rather narrow channels and difficult pathways."

And God will say, "Look. See these people? The rest of you take note."

Who said that? You'll have to get the book to find out. Was he right? Get A Response to the Video, read it, and decide for yourself. Don't let someone else do your deciding for you!

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