SDA Baptism

[Gratias_Grace]

Maggie:

You’re going to think I’m silly, but I didn’t take her seriously until she told me she was getting baptized.

:nope: You are not silly! You just happen to be in a situation that is not easy. You have been “raised quasi catholic”. I suppose that means that your mother didn’t know her faith well.

You can’t help the way you are brougth up! It is not your responsibility that she now is becoming a SDA-member. She will of course learn to hate the catholic church.

For the next I am going to write, I hope that you don’t think that I am silly: I think that you can be your mothers blessing. Since she probarly didn’t know her faith before she went to the SDA- church, she is perhaps not to blame (“no fault of their own” CCC 847).

The way you describe her, may be she will never understand the catholic church otherwise than “a set of rules and regulations”. When I say that you perhaps can become your mothers blessing, I think that you are the one that can pray for her together with all the saints (even if she never come back to church). Perhaps your prayers can help her to come closer to Christ and perhaps that will help her recognice Him the day she dyes.

:angel1: Blessings!

G.G.

 

[theresa_bloom]

Maggie,

I am a catholic from birth. I have been married to an SDA for 23 years. He studied SDA theology receiving his BA at Columbia Union College (SDA college in MD) Needless to say he was dyed in the wool SDA. Very opposed to the Roman Catholic Church. At times our marriage was tumultuous. We had two children. Both raised catholic. This was discussed and agreed to before we married. Long story short— He is currently in RCIA. He posts on this forum almost everyday. His username is Patrick Murebil. He would love to help you with your mom. He knows the lure of the SDA faith and the tactics they use to draw people in. Please contact him with a Private message. He would be glad to help you. You can also search his threads for some more information. Peace

 

[happilycatholic]

Maggie,

I am a catholic from birth. I have been married to an SDA for 23 years. He studied SDA theology receiving his BA at Columbia Union College (SDA college in MD) Needless to say he was dyed in the wool SDA. Very opposed to the Roman Catholic Church. At times our marriage was tumultuous. We had two children. Both raised catholic. This was discussed and agreed to before we married. Long story short— He is currently in RCIA. He posts on this forum almost everyday. His username is Patrick Murebil. He would love to help you with your mom. He knows the lure of the SDA faith and the tactics they use to draw people in. Please contact him with a Private message. He would be glad to help you. You can also search his threads for some more information. Peace

I hope you don’t mind, I’ve mentioned to your husband about being a catechist! The Church needs catholics like Patrick.

He has a wonderful way of relating God’s Word.

He’s a blessing.

 

[bpbasilphx]

She never did understand that the church was more than a set of rules and regulations, so now she’s completely closed out any discussion that might lead her to a deeper understanding of the Church.

And just what does she think SDA is if not a bunch of rules and regulations, based on the ravings of the psychic Ellen G. White?

 

[theresa_bloom]

I hope you don’t mind, I’ve mentioned to your husband about being a catechist! The Church needs catholics like Patrick.

He has a wonderful way of relating God’s Word.

He’s a blessing.

Hi happilycatholic,

Of course I don’t mind. He preaches to me all the time so I know what a great catechist he could be. I think it’s time others heard his “homilies”

Being Catholic from birth I began to take my faith for granted. His excitement for Catholicism and his love of our Lord has given me a new-found appreciation for the depth and richness of the RCC. I am so very lucky to have found him and we are truly blessed to reside in Jesus together.

 

[gospelgirl999]

I am sorry that your family is going through this spiritual struggle. For more accurate information on what Seventh-Day Adventists believe, I suggest you check out their homepage at adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html. It gives a list of the denomination’s primary beliefs and the scriptural basis for them.

 

[Nicea325]

Okay, this is a bit of a quagmire for me. I’ve recently finally come home to the church, after being somewhat lackadaisically being raised quasi catholic, and was confirmed the week after Easter. Now my mother, who was actually raised Catholic, has just told me she is being baptized into the Seventh Day Adventist church. Any time during the past nine months, while I was going through the RCIA process, in seeing her deepening involvement with the SDA church when we would try to have discussions regarding it her basic response was that I would reach a point where I would get past it (i.e. my devotion to Catholicism). She never did understand that the church was more than a set of rules and regulations, so now she’s completely closed out any discussion that might lead her to a deeper understanding of the Church. What I don’t know is what to do now. I don’t even know if she still receives Eucharist, but won’t this prevent her from doing so? I do think she still goes to Mass (at least she had up to a month or so ago, and she took communion at my confirmation).

Baptized…again? Why? Anyone baptized under the Trintarian Formula does not need another baptism.

 

[agent_grey]

My heart cries here today. SDA is the single most dangerous cult on the planet.

My sugestion and I hope you have been granted by God the financial ability to follow this one through.

Start by having her agree that the earth as round. Then you need to have her recognise that Christians where given a prime directive to travel the planet to preach of Jesus. Then begin keeping Saturday with her and take a cruise around the world. You leave the east cost and return on the west cost or vice versa.

From there if she is a good person and not mentally defective you should be able to witness her recognising that the true God did not create a flat earth.

If your family is financially well to do you now know why.

Or you could ask her if sliced apples prepared on friday just before the sun goes down will go brown by saturday sun down.

 

[gospelgirl999]

might I ask why you think SDAs are “the single most dangerous cult on the planet?”