{"id":9079,"date":"2026-04-20T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/answers\/tsei-uryvok-iakyi-tobi-vyslav-pereklady-na-ukr-movu-same-z-oryhinalu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:38:10","slug":"iak-pravylno-zrozumity-uryvok-ellen-uait-about-potrebu-sviatoho-dukha","status":"publish","type":"answers","link":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/answers\/iak-pravylno-zrozumity-uryvok-ellen-uait-about-potrebu-sviatoho-dukha\/","title":{"rendered":"How should we correctly understand Ellen White\u2019s passage about the need for the Holy Spirit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ellen White often spoke about the danger threatening not obvious sinners, but faithful people who know the truth yet gradually lose a living sense of Christ\u2019s presence.<\/b> One of the strongest images she uses is Mary at the empty tomb.<\/p>\n<h2>The image of Mary: seeking the living among the dead<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWoman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?\u201d <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+20%3A15&amp;version=UKR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John 20:15<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mary comes to the tomb with love and faithfulness \u2014 but she is looking for a dead body where the living Lord has already risen. She weeps before the empty tomb, not understanding that Christ is alive and standing nearby.<\/p>\n<p>White uses this image as <b>a mirror for the church<\/b>: one may know every doctrine, attend worship services regularly, repeat the right words \u2014 and at the same time lose the living, transforming presence of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<h2>White\u2019s main idea: superficial use of spiritual opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>In her warnings, Ellen White points to a specific danger: <b>people use spiritual opportunities superficially<\/b>. Prayer \u2014 by habit. Reading the Word \u2014 without expectation of an encounter. Worship \u2014 without a real encounter with God.<\/p>\n<p>The result: the form remains, but the power disappears. The church resembles Mary weeping at the empty tomb \u2014 although the risen Lord is ready to reveal Himself to the one who seeks the living.<\/p>\n<h2>How to read such a passage correctly<\/h2>\n<p>When you encounter in White a warning about formalism and the loss of the Spirit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Do not read it as a condemnation of outsiders.<\/b> White always writes to the church \u2014 to those who have already come, who already know.<\/li>\n<li><b>Read it as a personal invitation.<\/b> The question is not \u201cwho are these formalists?\u201d but \u201cam I today Mary, weeping before an empty tomb, not recognizing the One who is standing nearby?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Pay attention to the solution she offers:<\/b> a deeper dependence on the Holy Spirit \u2014 not a new program, but a new quality of prayer and expectation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Practical meaning<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUnless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.\u201d <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+3%3A5&amp;version=UKR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John 3:5<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White does not call us to abandon knowledge and doctrine. She calls us not to stop at them, but to go further, to a living encounter with the Lord, whom the Holy Spirit makes real in the heart.<\/p>\n<p><b>The best way to understand such a passage is to read it not as theological analysis, but as a personal question: \u201cWhere is the living Lord for me right now \u2014 and am I seeking Him where He is no longer found?\u201d<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"faq_question":"\u042f\u043a \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e \u0437\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0443\u043c\u0456\u0442\u0438 \u0443\u0440\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043a \u0415\u043b\u043b\u0435\u043d \u0423\u0430\u0439\u0442 \u043f\u0440\u043e \u043f\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0431\u0443 \u0421\u0432\u044f\u0442\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0414\u0443\u0445\u0430?","bible_refs":"John 20:13, 2 Timothy 3:5, John 16:13, Acts 1:8, Joel 2:17, Revelation 14:6-12","answer_lang":"uk","source_question":"\u0446\u0435\u0439 \u0443\u0440\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043a \u044f\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0442\u043e\u0431\u0456 \u0432\u0438\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0443\u043a\u0440 \u043c\u043e\u0432\u0443 \u0441\u0430\u043c\u0435 \u0437 \u043e\u0440\u0438\u0433\u0456\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0443"},"answer_topic":[150],"class_list":["post-9079","answers","type-answers","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/answers\/9079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/answers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/answers"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"answer_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advent-ug.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/answer_topic?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}