2. Is Part from God and Part from Ellen White?

Ellen White met this question several times. In 1888 she wrote quite plainly to one man:HPEGWW 6.4

You have talked over matters as you viewed them, that the communications from Sister White are not all from the Lord, but a portion is her own mind, her own judgment, which is no better than anybody else’s judgment and ideas. This is one of Satan’s hooks to hang your doubts upon to deceive your soul and the souls of others who will dare to draw the line in this matter and say, this portion which pleases me is from God, but that portion which points out and condemns my course of conduct is from Sister White alone, and bears not the holy signet. You have in this way virtually rejected the whole of the messages, which God in His tender, pitying love has sent you to save you from moral ruin.—Letter 16, 1888.

At another time she wrote:HPEGWW 6.5

I have my work to do, to meet the misconceptions of those who suppose themselves able to say what is testimony from God and what is human production. If those who have done this work continue in this course, Satanic agencies will choose for them.... Those who have helped souls to feel at liberty to testify what is of God in the testimonies and what are the uninspired words of Sister White, will find that they were helping the devil in his work of deception.—Letter 28, 1906.

When we accept part of what has been written and reject other parts, in effect we are setting ourselves up as judges of inspiration. Ellen White put it rather bluntly when she said there are “some professed believers” who “accept certain portions of the Testimonies as the message of God, while they reject those portions that condemn their favorite indulgences” (Testimonies for the Church 9:145).HPEGWW 7.1