Ellen White's Hypocrisy

Jesus warned about religious Pharisees who would bind heavy burdens on the backs of others but would not practice what they were preaching others to do (Matt. 23:3-4). This describes Ellen White. She made numerous laws on top of the Bible that she expected the SDA people to follow. In fact, if they didn't follow her rules, she berated them. However, she secretly ignored many of the rules she made for others. For example:

• Told others not to eat meat and butter while she ate them most of her life 1
• Told others not to wear jewelry while she wore it when she felt like it
• Told others not to drink alcohol while she drank it most of her adult life
• Told others not to use drug medicines while she kept drugs in her home
• Told others to burn novels while she read them and kept them in her library
• Told others not to spend money on photographs while she spent plenty on them
• Told others they must send their tithe to the conference but she didn't at times
• Told others it was a sin to be depressed while she was depressed most of her life
• Told others not to wear fancy hats but she wore them when she wanted to
• Told others not to drink hot drinks while she and her family drank them
• Told others not to visit art museums with nude pictures while she and her family visited them
• Told others not to go to phrenologists while she took her sons in for phrenology readings
• Told others to be nice and not judge others while she treated others harshly

The question this raises is: Did she really believe her own testimonies? Or did she know what we are now finding out: That her testimonies were not inspired by God but were the product of her own mind?

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Brother Anderson, moderator, www.nonegw.org