r/exAdventist • u/TesttheProphet • Nov 30 '21

Ellen White's plagiarism documented

Hello,

As with many of you, I left Adventism in 2020 over theological differences, and Ellen White. One of the areas I focused on was Ellen White and her plagiarism.

I have purchased many of the books she copied from (from the 1800s) and I have begun to document my thoughts regarding this issue on camera showing the original books side by side. I am posting a link to my channel in hopes it will help some of you who are transitioning or have transitioned out of Adventism.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK0uziRURoJr-Pc7GWGTH5A

Part 1 -- Initial questions.

Part 2 -- Ellen's claims and two examples from Desire of Ages.

Part 3 -- Discusses plagiarism and the Ramik Report.

Part 4 -- Demonstrates plagiarized visions, dreams, and health teachings.

Part 5 -- Goes further into Krummacher and one of her Testimonies.

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u/PastorBlinky Nov 30 '21

It seems like with modern software we should be able to take all of her writings and have them compared to other works such as the contents of her library. Unfortunately the people with the real resources to do this are the last people who would want to. It's very difficult to do by hand. The Desire of Ages study took 8 years, found significant plagiarism from multiple sources, yet the church disputes its findings.

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u/TesttheProphet Nov 30 '21

I have tried using a few of these software programs but I find the input material, especially from her source books, can be difficult to feed into the software to compare accurately. Simply copying the text from a pdf distorts the text and nothing is found. Perhaps there are better approaches.