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    Ellen White and distinctive Seventh-day Adventist doctrines

    During her early ministry as the pioneers were hammering out the distinctive doctrines of what would become Seventh-day Adventism, she often did not fully understand what was being studied. In 1904, she recalled her experience: “During this whole time I could not understand the reasoning of the brethren. My mind was locked, as it were, and I could not comprehend the meaning of the scriptures we were studying. This was one of the greatest sorrows of my life.” 15EGW, Selected Messages (Washington, DC: Review and Herald®, 1958), 1:207. She went on to explain that sometimes when the brethren were at a standstill in their study, she would have a vision to confirm the understanding of some texts they had arrived at or to point out a mistake in an interpretation. It was only after the participants at these meetings had reached a dead end, so to speak, that her visions played an influential role, and that role was limited to guidance and confirmation, not to the formation or generation of new ideas or beliefs. This divine guidance was usually practical and did not alter the theological core of the doctrine.UEGW 113.2

    The distinctive doctrines of Adventism form the heart of Adventist beliefs; they are what make us a distinctive group of Christians, but they are not all the doctrines we believe. Adventists share many doctrines with other Christians, including the Trinity, the authority of Scripture, creation ex-nihilo, the substitutionary atonement of the death of Christ, salvation by grace through faith in Christ, justification and sanctification by faith, the church and its ministry, believer’s baptism by immersion, the Lord’s Supper, and the new earth as the inheritance of the redeemed. Ellen White affirmed all these doctrines in her writings.UEGW 113.3

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