The Choice: Islam and Christianity

CHAPTER FIVE

DAMNING CONFESSIONS

Mrs. Ellen G. White, a “prophetess” of the Seventh Day Adventist

Church, in her Bible Commentary Vol. 1, page 14, has this

confession to make about the fallibility of the “Holy Bible."

"THE BIBLE WE READ TODAY IS THE WORK OF MANY

COPYISTS WHO HAVE IN MOST INSTANCES DONE THEIR

WORK WITH MARVELLOUS ACCURACY. BUT COPYISTS HAVE

NOT BEEN INFALLIBLE, AND GOD MOST EVIDENTLY HAS
NOT SEEN FIT TO PRESERVE THEM ALTOGETHER FROM

ERROR IN TRANSCRIBING."

In the following pages of her commentary, Mrs. White testifies

further: "I SAW THAT GOD HAD ESPECIALLY GUARDED THE

BIBLE,” (from what?) “YET WHEN COPIES OF IT WERE FEW,

LEARNED MEN HAD IN SOME INSTANCES CHANGED THE

WORDS, THINKING THAT THEY WERE MAKING IT PLAIN,
WHEN IN REALITY THEY WERE M YSTIFYING THAT WHICH
WAS PLAIN, BY CAUSING IT TO LEAN TO THEIR EST A B ­
LISHED VIEW S, WHICH WERE GOVERNED BY TRADITION.”

DEVELOPED SICKNESS

The mental malady is a cultivated one. This authoress and her

followers can still trumpet from rooftops that “ Truly, the Bible

is the infallible Word o f God.” “ Yes, it is adulterated, but

pure.” “ It is human, yet divine.” Do words have any

meaning in their language? Yes, they have in their courts of law,

but not in their theology. They carry a “poetic licence” in their

preaching.

IN THEIR HEARTS IS A DISEASE;