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  • Walter T. Rea (June 12, – August 30, ) was a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor who authored the book, The White Lie ().
  • Early in my ministerial life, which began in central California in the latter s, I compiled two volumes of Old and New Testament Bible.
  • From his research that raised sobering questions as to the official church position on Ellen White.

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    Walter Rea, the author of the block-buster anti-Ellen G. White book, The White Lie (), found himself in an unusual situation where he could monitor the developing financial corruption of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Davenport Scandal. Then, in an amazing set of circumstances, he found himself in possession of a copy of Dr. Donald Davenport's divorce decree. Dr. Davenport's estranged wife happened to attend the SDA Church Dr. Rea was pastoring at the time, and, seeking his guidance in the matter, she showed him the decree. This legal document provided, among other things, a list of Dr. Davenport's many creditors, which included an astonishing number of Church entities, leaders, and other privileged Adventists, including more than one General Conference president and six union conference presidents. The Church and the Church's leaders who invested with Dr. Davenport lost something like 77 million dollars-- a huge sum of money in the late 's and early 's-- in this Ponzi scandal.

     

    Pirates of Privilege,

    which reveals the nearly unbelievable details of this sordid chapter in the history of Adventism, was never published. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, when it fired Rea, took away his r

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    Walter T. Rea

    Walter T. Rea (June 12, &#; August 30, ) was a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor who authored the book, The White Lie (), an account of his research into plagiarism (literary borrowing as defined by church administrators) and uncredited sources in the writings of church co-founder Ellen G. White.[1] His findings created turmoil in the Adventist Church regarding the inspiration and authority of White,[2] whom the church claims possessed the spiritual gift of prophecy.[3]

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    Rea was born in He died in August [4] Rea was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Alhambra, California in the late 's to early s and was in Long Beach, California, when he wrote The White Lie.[5] His church employment ended in after a newspaper article published an account of his findings.[6]

    Ellen G. White

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    See also: Inspiration of Ellen G. White §&#;Sources and plagiarism charges

    While there had been earlier allegations of plagiarism against Ellen G. White, Rea's book, The White Lie, claimed that up to 80 or 90% of White's writings were plagiarized.[7] Rea was the first to document the extent of this borrowing, citing 75 books White depended on.[8] The Adventist denomination h