15. After the Great Disappointment in 1844, Ellen White was shown in vision that salvation had closed for the world (the "Shut Door").


Answer: While Ellen White believed for a time that no sinners would be converted after 1844, she was never instructed in a vision that the door of salvation was shut for the world. For a detailed analysis of the changing understanding of the expression "Shut Door," see the references given next.


Resources:

Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, vol. 11, 1996 ed., pp. 249-252.

Francis D. Nichol, Ellen G. White and Her Critics, 1951, pp. 161-252.

Herbert E. Douglass, Messenger of the Lord, 1998, pp. 157, 500-509, 549- 550, 554-568.

Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, bk. 1, pp. 59-64, 74.

P. Gerard Damsteegt, Foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Message and Mission,1977, 1988, pp. 149-155.