Ellen G. White was one of the three co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist movement and played a significant role in shaping their beliefs. She claimed to have experienced over 2,000 visions, including being taken to Heaven multiple times, where she said she spoke directly with Jesus. By the time of her death, her writings totaled nearly 100,000 pages, consisting of 24 published books, 5,000 articles, and more than 200 informational pamphlets, according to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Within SDA theology, she is seen as a New Testament prophet and her writings speak with “prophetic authority,” correcting “inaccurate interpretations of scripture derived from tradition, human reason, personal experience, and modern culture.” The problem is, she fails the pass the biblical test of a prophet (Deuteronomy 18:22). She did not originate any doctrines of the Adventist Church, but functioned as the movements prophetess who served as the divine “stamp of approval” from God when it came to the correct interpretations of scripture.
The Adventist Church promotes a number of myths about her, one of the biggest being that she is the most translated female author in the history of literature—which we have fact-checked here. The Adventist Church circulates this myth to bolster the legitimacy of God supposedly speaking through her and the move of God on their movement.
