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I'm Roman Catholic. I realize I'm the odd man out here.

EGW did say that there were some errors in D&R, however, she still recommended it.

There is a lot of good material in Great Controversy. The chapters dealing with the state of the dead and spiritualism would benefit a lot of people. Years ago, on my bicycle, I noticed a member of the Hell's Angels working on a truck in his driveway. I offered him a copy of the Occult Explosion booklet printed by the VoP. It had an eye-catching cover. After looking at the purple and black cover, with its occult symbols, for a moment, he took it and thanked me. Some eye catching art work on a smaller book containing the chapters on the state of the dead and spiritualism could be a better option, much more economical. It is Written published a series of pamphlets years ago. Titles such as Psychic Cinerama, A Star in the Night, and Rescue from Orion, with some eye catching artwork, graced the front page. People liked the look of those tracts and many gladly accepted them. I Can't say that many people's lives were changed by what they read but it was a lot of fun handing them out.

This is what Ellen White wrote about the book, "The Great Controversy": "The Great Controversy," Above Silver or Gold.-- The Great Controversy should be very widely circulated. It contains the story of the past, the present, and the future. In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth's history, it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth. I am more anxious to see a wide circulation for this book than for any others I have written; for in The Great Controversy, the last message of warning to the world is given more distinctly than in any of my other books.--Letter 281, 1905. {CM 127.1} So why all the fuss against this book?

Previously reference has been made to Doug Batchelor which may not have been totally clear. In an effort to clarify I am posting the following: Doug Batchelor: Is an authorized SDA pastor serving in the Northern California Conference. Granite Bay SDA Church: Is an authorized SDA Congregation, in the Northern California Conference. Doug Batchelor is their senior pastor. it is a large congregation and has some distinctive aspects of its ministry. Amazing Facts: Is a television ministry, of which Doug Batchelor is the President. For most of its organizational life it was an official ministry of the Northern California Conference. However, in late 2018 or early 2019, Amazing Facts officially separated from the Northern California Conference and it became an independent ministry that is not organizationally attached to the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.

Gustave, The Great Controversy correctly spoke against the movement of certain Protestants toward Rome. Protestant historians of the era were simply reminding people that the papacy was not all warm and fuzzy, however welcoming they might seem. The Oxford Movement in England was just as real as the attempt to establish Sunday laws in America. EGW warned against both.

Gustave, RC allies both inside and outside of Adventism have been dismissing the Great Controversy as typical Anti-Catholicism of the times. I have heard this from a Jesuit scholar as well as read it in publications catering to SDA. In those times there was the Oxford Movement. Its purpose was to reunite Roman Catholicism and the English church. Some of the things EGW wrote about in GC were actually taking place in those days, e.g., the reuniting of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. John Henry Newman converted to RC, as did other members of the Church of England. This was not just anti-Catholic nonsense EGW was spewing. The great Protestant historians who wrote in that general era, such as D'Aubigne [a Presbyterian], specifically mentioned being opposed to J. Newman. Obviously, the opposition to Roman Catholicism went beyond grammar school educated visionaries and the ill-informed working class.

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