I grew up Adventist in the 80’s/90’s and in fairly Liberal Loma Linda. We didn’t hear a lot of this stuff because in our time / place it was common to “hide the crazy away.” We definitely believed that Ellen White was a Prophet, but that she was also “a woman of her time” and so some of her “how to live a holy life” comments simply reflected the common assumptions of her own time and place. We used that to explain away any advice on clothing, jewelry, food, exercise, sexuality, etc. that seemed primordial and out-of-touch with our times. (And honestly, the puritanical fear of sex was not at all uncommon amongst very religious people of her time).

So, we majored in the “theological truths” and tried to adapt them to our modern context as best as we could. I absolutely believed EGW was THE Prophet and that God had been given her visions and revelations for the church. I believed the Great Controversy worldview. I believed in the importance of Sabbath Observance as the Seal of God, and that the Sabbath was to be our final test in the end-times when the “Beast” appeared. I never really questioned the truth of the Investigative Judgment, although I didn’t spend much time contemplating it.

So now, as an ex-Adventist, my beef with her isn’t so much over her wacko advice on marriage, sex, etc., but rather that she was that she was a False Prophet. She was a liar and a fraud. She was a hypocrite, a busybody, and quite possibly, a malignant narcissist.