The Pen of Inspiration

[Bravus]

Asking the question because I think it's interesting and important, not to cause trouble. By all means move this topic to another forum if you think it fits better - or delete it if you wish.

Here's A.G. Daniells from August 1, 1919:

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"Yes; and now take that "Life of Paul," - I suppose you all know about it and knew what claims were put up against her, charges made of plagiarism, even by the authors of the book, Conybeare and Howson, and were liable to make the denomination trouble because there was so much of their book put into "The Life of Paul" without any credit or quotation marks. Some people of strict logic might fly the track on that ground, but I am not built that way. I found it out, and I read it with Brother Palmer when he found it, and we got Conybeare and Howson, and we got Wylie's "History of the Reformation," and we read word for word, page after page, and no quotations, no credit, and really I did not know the difference until I began to compare them. I supposed it was Sister White's own work."

So, 'page after page'. The words of a prophet? The Spirit of Prophecy?

[Bravus]

From here: http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RBC/RBC19190801__B.pdf#view=fit

[Bravus]

Please understand: I am *not* making the argument that this copying impeaches any of EGW's other work. My question is quite specifically about the status (prophetic or otherwise) of the passages written by other authors but included in her book.

[Gordon1]

Yes Bravus, it's quite apparent the books have been changed, most susceptible were those issued after 1883 - when the group of five was convened to edit her work.

G.I Butler (chairman), S.N. Haskell. Uriah Smith, J.H. Waggoner, W.C. White.

It seems that Uriah Smith had plagiarized other authors in writing his own works. These passages U. Smith then inserted in EGW's books, and so she is now charged with...plaigiarism. And effectively discredited by her critics.

"I know that Elder [uriah] Smith and Elder [G.I.] Butler and [J.H.] Morrison and [L.] Nicola have been doing a work in their blindness that they will not wish to meet in the judgment..." Letter 109, December 6, 1890.

But most are oblivious, so powerless to discern.

[fccool]

You will find passages of Mark word-for-word copied in other three gospels. You will find other NT and OT writers verbatim copying chunks without any credit given.

The book of proverbs takes chunks out of other writers and records them as "wisdom of Solomon".

The words of a prophet? The Spirit of Prophecy?

[Amelia]

Asking the question because I think it's interesting and important, not to cause trouble. By all means move this topic to another forum if you think it fits better - or delete it if you wish.

Here's A.G. Daniells from August 1, 1919:

Quote:

"Yes; and now take that "Life of Paul," - I suppose you all know about it and knew what claims were put up against her, charges made of plagiarism, even by the authors of the book, Conybeare and Howson, and were liable to make the denomination trouble because there was so much of their book put into "The Life of Paul" without any credit or quotation marks. Some people of strict logic might fly the track on that ground, but I am not built that way. I found it out, and I read it with Brother Palmer when he found it, and we got Conybeare and Howson, and we got Wylie's "History of the Reformation," and we read word for word, page after page, and no quotations, no credit, and really I did not know the difference until I began to compare them. I supposed it was Sister White's own work."

So, 'page after page'. The words of a prophet? The Spirit of Prophecy?

So possibly those other authors works were prophetic but the authors didn't hear God talking to them or resisted the nudge of prophecy? Didn't God pass the word along until it came into EGW's hands?

[wayfinder]

Do you have the original autographs of all the gospels to verify your statement? Luke was not an eyewittness and there is strong evidence that he used Josephus as his source and changed the "Jews" to "Christians" in his account. Luke also has a great many unique elements, some contradicting the eyewitness testimony. So, does God "inspire" men and women to copy/borrow/use noninspired sources?