Mythes au sujet d'Ellen White : Elle a écrit 'Le Meilleur Chemin'

Steps to Christ [Le meilleur Chemin] est un merveilleux livre au sujet de l'expérience chrétienne. C'est le livre le plus vendu d'Ellen G. White, et des millions d'exemplaires ont été imprimés en différentes langues. Des Adventistes parfois mettent en avant ce livre comme preuve du ministère prophétique d'Ellen White.

Malheureusement, il y a peu de probabilité que Madame White ait effectivement écrit le livre. Il n'existe de sa main aucune page manuscrite de Steps to Christ. Selon le White Estate, le livre a été assemblé par les "assistants éditoriaux" de Madame White. L'auteur le plus vraisemblable du livre serait en fait Fannie Bolton. Mademoiselle Bolton a rejoint l'équipe d'Ellen White en 1888, et Steps to Christ a été publié en 1892. Plus tard, Mlle. Bolton devait revendiquer la rédaction du livre, alors Madame White prit le manuscrit et le publia sous son nom (pour examiner cette preuve, cliquez ici).

La paternité du premier chapitre de Steps to Christ est particulièrement controversé. Le premier chapitre fut ajouté quand l'Eglise SDA racheta les droits d'éditions du livre en 1896. Le Steps to Christ original publié en 1892 n'avait pas de premier chapitre intitulé "L'amour de Dieu pour l'Humanité".

Partie de textes utilisés dans Steps to Christ venaient d'écrits antécédents déjà publiés de Madame White (par exemple, paragraphe 1, p.12 de RH 12/16/1884 ; paragraphe 1, 2, p.15 de 4T 563, 46 ; le chapitre sur la "Confession" de ST 3/16/1888 et 5T 635-641 ; page 83 de 3T 246, 247 ; pages 121-123 de RH 2/3/1885). Parties du livre furent plagiées d'autres auteurs chrétiens.

Walter Rea, dans son livre révolutionnaire Le Pieux Mensonge [White Lie], a noté que certains éléments de Steps to Christ ont été copiés des scènes de nuit de Daniel March's Night Scenes in the Bible, et Almon Underwood's God's Will Known and Done. Voici quelques autres exemples où les paroles d'autres auteurs ont été copiées dans Steps to Christ sans donner de crédit aux vrais auteurs. Ce qui suit est un exemple qui se retrouve dans le livre :

Steps to Christ, 1892 God's Will Known and Done, Almon Underwood, 1860
Another element of prevailing prayer is faith. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Heb. 11:6 . . . But to claim that prayer will always be answered in the very way and for the particular thing that we desire is presumption. (p. 96) Anotherrequisite of prevailing prayer, is faith. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Heb. 11:6 . . . You are not to expect it to come in a particular way, nor necessarily at just such a time. (p. 291)
Steps to Christ, 1892 Other Authors
The Father loves us, not because of the great propitiation, but He provided the propitiation because He loves us. Christ was the medium through which He could pour out His infinite love upon a fallen world.
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 13)
...the father loves us, not in consequence of the great propitiation, but that he provided the propitiation because he loved us; because he was bent on obtaining a medium through which he could pour out the ocean-fulness of his love upon us.
(John Harris, The Great Teacher, (1837) pp. 105-106)
Jesus said, "Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again." John 10:17. That is, "My Father has so loved you that He even loves Me more for giving My life to redeem you. In becoming your Substitute and Surety, by surrendering My life, by taking your liabilities, your transgressions, I am endeared to My Father..."
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 14)
'Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again because I lay down my life for the sheep;' in other words, 'My Father loves you with a love so unbounded, that he even loves me the more for dying to redeem you. ... by sustaining your liabilities, by surrendering my life as an equivalent for your transgressions...the Father loves me...
(John Harris, The Great Teacher, (1837) p. 106)
In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who choose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 68)
He gave Him, to encircle the world with an atmosphere of grace, as real and universal, as the elemental air which encompasses and circulates around the globe itself; and whoever chooses to inhale it, hath eternal life.
(John Harris, The Great Teacher, (1837) p. 112)
There is nothing more calculated to strengthen the intellect than the study of the Scriptures. No other book is so potent to elevate the thoughts, to give vigor to the faculties, as the broad, ennobling truths of the Bible.
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 90)
...the study of the Bible, even when supposed without influence on the heart, is calculated far more than any other study, to enlarge the mind and strengthen the intellect. There is nothing so likely to elevate and endow with new vigor our faculties, as the bringing them into contact with stupendous truths.
(John L. Waller and Chas D. Kirk, eds., The Christian Repository, (1853), page 228)
Never should the Bible be studied without prayer. Before opening its pages we should ask for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, and it will be given.
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 90)
Never then, should the Bible be opened except for prayer for the teachings of the Spirit.
(Henry Melville, Sermons vol. 1 (1853), page 134)
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend.
(Steps to Christ, (1896) page 93)
By prayer the Christian can open his heart to God, as to a friend.
(John Bunyan, The Whole Works of John Bunyan, "On Praying in the Spirit", (1862), p. 623)

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