The 1919 Bible Conference

[Gregory Matthews]

The 1919 Bible Conference dwelt with a critical issue related to the writings of Ellen White.  The following link takes you to a short written discussion of that issues.  It also lists a Zoom Conference what will take place on that issue on June 5.  Feel free to join, if you wish. 

Denis Fortin: Lessons from the 1919 Bible Conference | Adventist Today (atoday.org)

[Kevin H]

The 1919 Bible Conference's issues do not only apply to the writings of Mrs. White but inspiration in general, including the Bible. Sadly the rejection of this message made the 1922 General Conference the worst in our history, and most of the church's problems over the 20th century stems from our rejection of this message, and our healing will come from once we finally accept the 1919 Bible Conference message. 

[Gustave]

On 6/11/2021 at 7:39 PM, Kevin H said:

The 1919 Bible Conference's issues do not only apply to the writings of Mrs. White but inspiration in general, including the Bible. Sadly the rejection of this message made the 1922 General Conference the worst in our history, and most of the church's problems over the 20th century stems from our rejection of this message, and our healing will come from once we finally accept the 1919 Bible Conference message. 

is "the 1922 General Conference" the equivalent of how other Christians view "the Council of Nicaea"? 

If most of the SDA Church's problems can be attributed to the 1922 General Conference (SDA Conference Council of 1922) that would indicate that whatever was "the worst in history" was, at the end of day, believed to be infallible, right? I'm not understanding how it is a council can be called by the same entity with the message and the message is rejected? 

What specifically out of the 1922 General Conference is considered to be infallible? 

[Kevin H]

In the 1922 Bible Conference Elder Daniels and W. W. Prescott was demoted, Willie White got to "Keep" his job but many of his duties and his authority was removed, he was basically able to work with his mother's writings, and have an office to come to and a paycheck, otherwise he was basically fired. 

Elder Spicer, the new General Conference president, was seen as almost as bad as Elder Daniels, but while Elder Daniels believed that Fundamentalism would be dangerous, Elder Spicer felt that it was harmless. Elder Spicer believed in two forms of inspiration, one being what the Fundamentalists thought about inspiration, and Elder Spices believed that this inspiration applied to the Bible writers, but that Mrs. White had a different type of inspiration that did not fit the Fundamentalist view. ( understand there to be just one form of inspiration, the non-Fundamentalist approach that Spicer held for Mrs. White. ) And there were witch hunts in our schools and churches throwing out anti-fundamentalists.