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    Chapter 4—Sources of Information

    Visions

    In her first account of Christ’s life, written in 1858, Ellen White frequently made such declarations as “I saw,” “I then viewed,” “I was shown,” etc. (p. 10). While she did not lace her later accounts of Christ’s life with these expressions, she may actually have seen in vision all the events in Christ’s life of which she wrote. In 1889, after mentioning the “betrayal, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus,” she commented, “All this had passed before me point by point” (p. 22, par. 3).HDAW 4.3

    However, it is not necessary for us to believe that every single fact mentioned in The Desire of Ages was first seen in vision in order also to believe that the book came from a truly inspired pen. For example, Paul wrote the Corinthians, “There is among you envying, and strife, and divisions” (1 Corinthians 3:3). But he was not shown this in vision. He was informed in this matter by the members of the house of Chloe. (See 1 Corinthians 1:11). Yet we hold that 1 Corinthians 3:3 was written under inspiration. Ellen White states that although “the Lord did not give him [Paul] a new revelation for that special time... the reproof he sent them was as certainly written under the inspiration of the Spirit of God as were any of his other epistles” (The Acts of the Apostles, 302-3). If God could speak to the prophets of old “in diverse manners” (Hebrews 1:1), He could most surely do the same in more recent times.HDAW 4.4

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