Resistance and Rejection of Ellen White's Prophetic Writings

Respingerea mărturiilor și a luminii trimise prin Spiritul Profetic este o realitate dureroasă, deoarece mulți aleg să critice, să ignore sau să trateze aceste solii ca fiind simple opinii umane, punându-și astfel sufletele în mare pericolPH117 45.1+2. Cei care se opun acestor avertizări adesea nu cercetează dovezile cu rugăciune, ci aleg să le ridiculizeze sau să le considere „literă moartă”, ajungând să manifeste un spirit de rezistență încăpățânată asemănător cu cel al celor care L-au respins pe Hristos21MR 64.2+2. Această atitudine de a alege doar ceea ce convine și de a refuza restul face ca mărturiile să nu mai însemne nimic pentru ei, fiind interpretate după propria judecată finită și limitată6LtMs, Lt 40, 1890, par. 17.

Yet now when I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sr. White. You have insulted the Spirit of God. You know, Eld. Smith, how the Lord has manifested himself through the spirit of prophecy. Past, pr...— PH117 45.1 (1882)

...do? My brethren have trifled and caviled and criticized—and commented and demerited—and picked and chosen a little, and refused much, until the testimonies mean nothing to them. They put whatever interpretation upon them that they choose, in their own finite judgment, and are...— 6LtMs, Lt 40, 1890, par. 17 (1889)

... path of humility. God has committed to his servants a message for this time; but this message does not in every particular coincide with the ideas of all the leading men, and some criticise the message and the messengers. They dare even to reject the words of reproof sent to them from God through his Holy Spirit— SpTA02b 116.1 (1892)

... spoken against, ridiculed, and rejected: Reference is here made to the attitude which some took in resistance to the emphasis given to the message of righteousness by faith at and following the General Conference session of 1888. S...— TM 533.4 (1923)

There is wickedness that is being made strong through making void the law of Jehovah. Many have regarded the divine precepts as a dead letter; they have not accepted God's law as the rule of their life in all business transactions. And ...— 21MR 64.2 (1993)

...ngerous step. When afterward evidence accumulated that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, they were too proud to acknowledge that they had erred. So with the people of our day who reject the truth. They do not take time to investigate candidly, with earnest prayer, the evidences of the truth, and they oppose that which they do not understand. Just like the Jews, they take it for granted they have all the truth, and feel a sort of contempt for anyone who should suppose they had more correct ideas than themselves of what is truth. All the evidence produced they decide shall not weigh a straw wit...— 5LtMs, Ms 15, 1888, par. 33 (1887)

Rejection of Light Serious—When conviction is disregarded, when evidence is rejected, men are forced to take a position of active opposition and stubborn resistance.—Manuscript 13, 1892— Ev 282.2 (1946)