The Reluctant Prophet

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been criticized for teaching the divine inspiration of the writings of church pioneer Ellen White. And yet no one who has read the books Steps to Christ, Desire of Ages, or Ministry of Healing can deny that God used her mightily and even prophetically.

As much as she was a mere human subject to the frailties of humanity, isn't it just like God to use “the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27)?

Doesn't such a bold claim as divine inspiration demand a careful investigation into the evidences?