The Ellen G. White Estate's own published treatment of the shut door question, the denomination's official custodian of White's writings addressing the doctrine and her early role in it directly. States that after the Great Disappointment she and other early believers held for a time that no more sinners would be converted, that a series of visions from November 1848 redirected the movement, and quotes White's own later statement that she was never shown in vision that the door of mercy was shut to the world.
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The denomination's own official custodian body for Ellen White's writings, addressing a doctrine her early ministry shared and that the church no longer holds. Institutional and not independent of its subject, so used here alongside, never instead of, Numbers and Butler's outside academic account. NotesPrimary citation for the live fact and for Ellen White's own explanation of her role.
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AuthorEllen G. White Estate
PublisherEllen G. White Estate
URLhttps://whiteestate.org/legacy/issues-shut-alw-html/
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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