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Ellen White & the Pioneers

Everything the institute has written about Ellen G. White and the Adventist pioneers — their platform on the Godhead, the gift of prophecy, the gospel they recovered, and the questions raised about them — gathered in one place.

Library · bookThe Old LandmarksThe pioneer platform on the Godhead, set forth landmark by landmark in the founders’ own words — every quotation traced to its source.
Free courseEllen White and the GodheadDid Ellen White become a Trinitarian? An eight-lesson study of what she actually wrote, in her own words and in context.
Free courseThe GodheadThe One True God and His only begotten Son, recovered lesson by lesson from Scripture — the doctrinal companion to the pioneers’ confession.
Doctrine studyThe God of IsraelThe historic Adventist witness on the identity of the true God — the founders named, the 1888 message, and the twentieth-century pivot.
Doctrine studyEllen White and the Hard QuestionsThe “failed prophecy” and plagiarism charges against Ellen White, answered one at a time from primary sources.
LibraryEllen White on the Shape of the EarthWhat she actually wrote on cosmology — and what she pointedly did not — with her own stated view of her mission.
DoctrineThe Spirit of ProphecyThe gift of prophecy as Scripture frames it and as it was manifested in Ellen White’s ministry — pioneer position and modern shift side by side.
DoctrineThe GodheadThe Father, the only true God; His begotten Son; and the Spirit — the pioneer platform the church later left, in their own quotations.
Answering Modern AdventismChrist, the Only Begotten SonThe pioneers’ begotten-Son confession weighed against the modern Adventist position, from Scripture and the founders’ writings.
Answering Modern AdventismWho Is the Holy Spirit, According to Ellen White?Her own published statements on the Spirit, gathered and weighed — read in her words rather than through a later compilation.
Answering Modern AdventismThe Triad Before the TrinityThe pagan triads behind the creed the pioneers refused — the historical backdrop to their anti-trinitarian stand.
Free courseRighteousness by FaithThe gospel the pioneers recovered — the 1888 message of Waggoner and Jones that Ellen White called “the third angel’s message in verity.”
Prophecy studyThe Three Plucked HornsReclaiming the pioneers’ much-maligned “Arian” label from the documented record of Daniel 7.
Common misconceptionsWhich Ship Is Going Through?Ellen White’s ship vision and her warning of an alpha-and-omega apostasy — and what they mean for the church today.