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| About the Book | |
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This book is the third in a four-part series written on Ellen White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The first volume, was the award winning Ellen G. White a Psychobiography, which caused great controversy in the church and was highly praised by former Adventists. The book documented the fraud, extreme dishonesty,and pathology in the life of Ellen White and how this has impacted the church as a whole. The second volume, The White Estate Fraud, documented how the White Estate, which Ellen White established to preserve and further her legacy was used by her grandson Arthur White to commit theft, deceit, and to fabricate a book against Ellen White's most famous critic which was nothing more than lies and character assassination. This third volume, Leaving Adventism, contains a great deal of information about Ellen White and Adventism that was not included in the psychobiography or that occurred after it was published in 2020. The book is also auto-biographical to some degree as it traces the author's 35 year journey in Adventism as a university teacher in the fields of history, religion and psychology, a university chaplain, and a senior pastor of the controversial Celebration Center Church, as well as his story after leaving Adventism. But a great deal of the book focuses on why so many people have left the Seventh-day Adventist Church, how the church attempts to hide or deny the extent of these losses, and why the mass exodus out of Adventism is now increasing dramatically. Chapter seventeen is the most comprehensive summary of how SDA claims of membership are grossly distorted both in the United States and world wide, and provides highly documented evidence which shows that the claimed world membership of the church which is now approximately 24 million, is in actuality much closer to about 3 million. The author uses the churches own statistics against them, and demonstrates how the false claims of growth are just one more form of deception that the hurting denomination uses to perpetuate its false claims that it is God's true Remnant Church, has ore Bible Truth compared to all other churches, and has the one true last day prophet from God who was supposedly given more than 2,000 "visions" directly from heaven. These claims are not only used to delude and deceive current church members but to recruit new ones as well. However, there are far more former Adventists in the world than those who actually take Adventism seriously. Finally, the book contains additional information that has not been published in book form before concerning Ellen Harmon White's arrest for abducting a woman into her cult, new information about her demonic and spiritualistic connections as well as unpacking scandals in Adventism that the church has tried to suppress, such as the tragic Miracle Meadows scandal that has cost the church millions in the settlement of costly lawsuits. It is the author's intent to present the true Gospel throughout the book, even as it demonstrates how Ellen White and Adventism have consistently distorted and even condemned this Gospel. It is the author's hope that the book will provide a powerful picture of positive religion and a healthy view of God in contrast to the cultic and unhealthy religion that was modeled by Ellen White and the church that she founded. God is in the business of overcoming evil with good (Romans 12:21) and He calls us to do the same, while the author knows many wonderful people in Adventism the dishonest systems and structures of this deceitful denomination, need to be exposed and they have been thoroughly exposed in this three volume work. It is the author's hope that God will bless you as you read these words!
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| About the Author | |
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Steve Daily is the author of 29 books, a historian, licensed psychologist and ordained minister who is an expert on Seventh day Adventism. He taught history, religion and psychology in Adventist universities for 24 years and was senior pastor of the controversial Celebration Center until he left Adventism in 2010, He has worked for UCLA and pastored Graceway Church since then. He's been married to his loving wife Erlys for 52 years, & they have 3 wonderful children & six great grandkids |