Ellen G. White the Great SDA Plagiarist
By Robert K. Sanders
 

Question? What do you call a person that takes the words and thoughts of other authors without giving credit and then claims the words come from God? Answer. A plagiarist, a literary thief and a liar.

Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary
Main Entry: pla-gia-rize
Etymology: plagiary
Date:1716
transitive verb : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

EGW plagiarized the Rev. John Cummings who wrote Sabbath Evening Readings in 1856 into her book, The Desire of Ages, p. 530 in 1898.

  Rev. John Cumming, who wrote Sabbath Evening Readings in 1856: "In him was life,"— that is, original, unborrowed, underived.

Ellen G. White: Wrote in The Desire of Ages, p. 530 in 1898: In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived. "He that hath the Son hath life" (1 John 5:12). The divinity of Christ is the believer's assurance of eternal life. "He that believeth in me," said Jesus, "though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." . . . Christ here looks forward to the time of His second coming. The Desire of Ages, p. 530 in 1898

In the 1985 debate on the John Ankerberg show between Dr. Walter Martin and SDA Dr. William Johnsson; one of the points of discussion was EGW's plagiarism.  Johnsson used the above EGW quote she plagiarized from Rev. Cummings without even being aware she had plagiarized it and used it as her own. http://www.truthorfables.com/Martin_Johnsson_Debate.htm

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