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Hi everyone. What are some of the main beliefs of the Seventh Day Adventist Church? What do they get wrong and what do they get right? I know that they believe in worshiping only on the sabbath which they believe is Saturday. Catholics have services both on Saturday and on Sunday. Also, why did the Catholic Church change the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday? 🤷:confused:
 
I’ll answer the last question. You might also want to search the forum for previous posts on this topic.

Catholics worship on Sunday because that is the day Jesus rose from the dead.
Matt 28:1 “After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.” (NIV) SDAs believe in honoring the Sabbath as the Jews did which is Saturday. They also follow a diet of vegetarianism or at least the same dietary practices as Jews.

SDA (Seven Day Adventism) came out of the Adventism movement in the 1800s. Jehovah’s Witnesses and a few other groups also came out of this movement. SDA theology is largely hinged on what they believe Catholicism gets wrong. Here’s an official listing of what they believe : adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html.
 
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.

Romans 14 is a real blessing to me, and is a bridge for me to all Christians. See Romans 14:5-6 14:23. I have convictions in my heart, but I don’t feel that everyone will interpret scripture the same way I have or have the same traditions. Sabbath to me is a date with God. I’m blessed to have that time. As for vegetarianism, I think God was way out in front with some of the Levitical guidelines - I do these things because they make good health sense. We are all at different places in our walk with Him.

We believe by accepting God’s grace, we can have salvation. Accepting that gift and loving Him, brings about a change in our hearts. For these reasons we trust Him and seek to be in harmony with His will as revealed to us through the Bible.

God bless you,
paul
 
phummel said:
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.

Romans 14 is a real blessing to me, and is a bridge for me to all Christians. See Romans 14:5-6 14:23. I have convictions in my heart, but I don’t feel that everyone will interpret scripture the same way I have or have the same traditions. Sabbath to me is a date with God. I’m blessed to have that time. As for vegetarianism, I think God was way out in front with some of the Levitical guidelines - I do these things because they make good health sense. We are all at different places in our walk with Him.

We believe by accepting God’s grace, we can have salvation. Accepting that gift and loving Him, brings about a change in our hearts. For these reasons we trust Him and seek to be in harmony with His will as revealed to us through the Bible.

God bless you,
paul
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Bless you Paul you words are inspiring. I have SDA views but am not a SDA.
 
phummel said:
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.

Romans 14 is a real blessing to me, and is a bridge for me to all Christians. See Romans 14:5-6 14:23. I have convictions in my heart, but I don’t feel that everyone will interpret scripture the same way I have or have the same traditions. Sabbath to me is a date with God. I’m blessed to have that time. As for vegetarianism, I think God was way out in front with some of the Levitical guidelines - I do these things because they make good health sense. We are all at different places in our walk with Him.

We believe by accepting God’s grace, we can have salvation. Accepting that gift and loving Him, brings about a change in our hearts. For these reasons we trust Him and seek to be in harmony with His will as revealed to us through the Bible.

God bless you,
paul
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You have great joy, but is it true that the SDA teach that Jesus is not GOD contrary to what the Bible teach “and the Word was GOD”, “before Abraham was I AM (YHWH)”, “you being a man make yourself to be GOD”,“I am the First and I am the Last”, “thomas replies, My Lord and My GOD”. Jesus refers himself as the Lord of the Sabbath, YHWH of the Sabbath. he is refer to as the Lord of GLORY, Lord of Lords, King of Kings and many, many more which are all trates and names of GOD the Father.

Just your thoughts, GOD BLESS. 🙂
 
phummel said:
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.

God bless you,
paul
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What a shame, SDA’s believe that anyone who worships on Sunday is worshiping the Beast and his whore of Babylon. They teach that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon. I have watched several of their “seminars” on line and have an acquaintance that is SDA. The lies and filth that they spew about Gods church are unbelievable. They teach that the Catholic Church in the near future will put to death any Christian who refuses to worship on Sunday. They brainwash their followers with a twisted interpretation of several scriptures, and have re-written the history of the Church to suit their propaganda.
The only scriptures they care about are the ones they can twist into lies to make traps for the unwary. I have little charity for this group, for I do not believe they are at all Christian, and I welcome the chance to debate with them any time.
 
Hi, Paul,

Thank you for responding. I went to the following links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventists to get a general over-view and then on to the official site that came up when I Googled the name: adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html I did not find the Pine Knoll site quite as helpful…but, thanks for providing this link.
phummel said:
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.
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Now, I am not sure if this represents ‘traditional’ or ‘progressive’ Adventism, but I did have a question concerning Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

adventist.org/beliefs/fundamental/index.html
  1. Baptism:
    By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk in newness of life. Thus we acknowledge Christ as Lord and Saviour, become His people, and are received as members by His church. Baptism is a symbol of our union with Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, and our reception of the Holy Spirit. It is by immersion in water and is contingent on an affirmation of faith in Jesus and evidence of repentance of sin. It follows instruction in the Holy Scriptures and acceptance of their teachings. (Rom. 6:1-6; Col. 2:12, 13; Acts 16:30-33; 22:16; 2:38; Matt. 28:19, 20.)
There is no specific reference to Original Sin here - is this implied?
There is a requirement for ackinoledging Christ as Lord - something that infants can not do (but, of course their Baptismal sponsors can…:D) Is infant baptism prohibited? If so, why?
Finally, there appears to be only an acknowledgement of immersion as a method of Baptism. Is this correct? There is no direct reference to Christ actually being immersed although it is quite possible. And while St Paul using immersion as a re-birth in Christ analogy, it is difficult visualizing Peter immersing 3,000 new converts to Christ on that First Pentecost Sunday.
  1. Lord’s Supper:
    The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him, our Lord and Saviour. In this experience of communion Christ is present to meet and strengthen His people. As we partake, we joyfully proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes again. Preparation for the Supper includes self-examination, repentance, and confession. The Master ordained the service of foot washing to signify renewed cleansing, to express a willingness to serve one another in Christlike humility, and to unite our hearts in love. The communion service is open to all believing Christians. (1 Cor. 10:16, 17; 11:23-30; Matt. 26:17-30; Rev. 3:20; John 6:48-63; 13:1-17.)
I am not really sure what the term “emblems” mean. As Catholics we believe Christ’s Body, Blood, Human Soul and Divinity are present and hidden under the appearance of the Bread and Wine after the Consecration. The John 6 reference really does spell out Christ’s requirement that we eat His Flesh - and this (not an analogy) is what causes the Jews to leave Christ because they can not accept this doctrine of His. What is it that Adventestis believe about the Lord’s Supper that is different from Catholic belief.

Looking forward to hearing back from you. 🙂

God bless
 
Holly3278 said:
Hi everyone. What are some of the main beliefs of the Seventh Day Adventist Church? What do they get wrong and what do they get right? I know that they believe in worshiping only on the sabbath which they believe is Saturday. Catholics have services both on Saturday and on Sunday. Also, why did the Catholic Church change the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday? 🤷:confused:
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Hello Holly:

I don’t know if anyone has addressed this. A quick glance at the thread and I don’t see anything.

The Church didn’t change Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday and will always be Saturday. Just a little technical glitch in your post. 🙂
 
phummel said:
Hi Holly3278,

I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.

You’ll find several flavors of Adventism - from progressive to traditional. I am of the progressive variety. Honestly, traditional Adventism scares me a bit. Please take a look at “What We Believe”, pineknoll.org/adventist/. Our theology comes from the Bible, and far less weight is given to Tradition.

Romans 14 is a real blessing to me, and is a bridge for me to all Christians. See Romans 14:5-6 14:23. I have convictions in my heart, but I don’t feel that everyone will interpret scripture the same way I have or have the same traditions. Sabbath to me is a date with God. I’m blessed to have that time. As for vegetarianism, I think God was way out in front with some of the Levitical guidelines - I do these things because they make good health sense. We are all at different places in our walk with Him.

We believe by accepting God’s grace, we can have salvation. Accepting that gift and loving Him, brings about a change in our hearts. For these reasons we trust Him and seek to be in harmony with His will as revealed to us through the Bible.

God bless you,
paul
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You do know that SDAism is a pro-abortion cult don’t you? Several of us on Catholic Answers Forum were SDAs for many years. Personally I thank God daily for delivering me from SDAism and EGW. Please, please pray very hard before you reject Jesus and become an SDA.

WHy don’t you go visit the blog Seventh Day Adventist to Roman Catholic?
 
I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.
How were you led from the simplicity of the Gospel to follow the neo-Arian, neo-Jezebelian mystery of iniquity?
 
bpbasilphx said:
I am converting to SDA now. I love sharing the blessing I have received from this church.
How were you led from the simplicity of the Gospel to follow the neo-Arian, neo-Jezebelian mystery of iniquity?
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Hi bpbasilphx:

Are you prepared to give up the Eucharist?? I’m sad. :o

I went to an SDA “camp meeting” with someone who played in a band there for worship and praise and they actually had crackers and juice just lying out on a table for anyone to go up and “take”.

Are you okay with that?

I was so hurt by that. It seemed like mockery to me. I just prayed that all who were “taking” felt something when they did.

God Bless You.

HC

**Edit: I don’t mean to say the were mocking the Eucharist, I just mean that having received Christ’s Body and Blood in the catholic Church, I was truly hurt seeing that. I think, at least I hope they are sincere in their intentions.
 
Holly3278 said:
Hi everyone. What are some of the main beliefs of the Seventh Day Adventist Church? What do they get wrong and what do they get right? I know that they believe in worshiping only on the sabbath which they believe is Saturday. Catholics have services both on Saturday and on Sunday. Also, why did the Catholic Church change the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday? 🤷:confused:
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It is well documented both in the NT and in early Church writings that the 1st century Christians changed their day of worship to Sunday. Remember, it wasn’t only the Romans who were persecuting the early Church. The Jews who worshiped on Saturday did as well. The Church made it offical in the 4th century. This is when the SDA’s say it was “changed”.
 
I was very close to this married couple, Catholic, who went to chiropractic school.

In the meantime, I began making full use of the rosary. They came to visit me on the West Coast to share with me ‘the truth’ about the Catholic Church and how they joined the Seventh Day Adventists. They started out if I believed that the Bible was the Word of God and said yes.

(The mother of the bride was so upset. She went to visit their church. The minister knew who she was. She got so agitated listening to the talk by the minister, she got up and walked out. As she was going out, he publicly insulted her before her daughter, son-in-law and congregation.)

Then, they said, well, the Catholic Church contradicts the Bible in many passages. It threw me because I wasn’t grounded in our history. I attended a secular university. I felt the practice of the Rosary securing my place in our Church.

Later they left after they discovered the practice of numerology by their woman founder.

I find that certain personality types are drawn to such persuasion, not trusting in human institutions because of the scandals. Catholicism and the Sabbath Masses are not emotional.

I also have noted the more fundamentalist a person is, the greater inability they have to read Catholic church history and the origin of our practices. They are just simply closed minded. I live in a state that has a very bigoted Adventist population that put a big sign on the interstate that John Paul II is the anti-Christ. Really pains me to see Catholics leave to go into sects like this.

Like if they believe Jesus is God, He was very imperfect in establishing His church…taking Him 1800 years to get it right. Alot to catch up on with the opaque human condition. I mean, look at the Apostles and how much time it took them to understand Him, and the work of the Holy Spirit to complete the work at Pentecost…
 
cides23 said:
You have great joy, but is it true that the SDA teach that Jesus is not GOD contrary to what the Bible teach “and the Word was GOD”, “before Abraham was I AM (YHWH)”, “you being a man make yourself to be GOD”,“I am the First and I am the Last”, “thomas replies, My Lord and My GOD”. Jesus refers himself as the Lord of the Sabbath, YHWH of the Sabbath. he is refer to as the Lord of GLORY, Lord of Lords, King of Kings and many, many more which are all trates and names of GOD the Father.

Just your thoughts, GOD BLESS. 🙂
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Oh, not at all. We fully believe in the trinity and accept Jesus as being divine. You are correct, Jesus said, “I Am” and also from John and 1 John. I agree with everything you have written.

blessings,
paul
 
Hello Tom,
tqualey said:
There is no specific reference to Original Sin here - is this implied?
There is a requirement for ackinoledging Christ as Lord - something that infants can not do (but, of course their Baptismal sponsors can…) Is infant baptism prohibited? If so, why?
Finally, there appears to be only an acknowledgement of immersion as a method of Baptism. Is this correct?
There is no direct reference to Christ actually being immersed although it is quite possible.
And while St Paul using immersion as a re-birth in Christ analogy,
it is difficult visualizing Peter immersing 3,000 new converts to Christ on that First Pentecost Sunday.
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We accept original sin - that man is in a fallen state.
However, we believe that infants are protected by God until they have knowledge of right and wrong.
Correct, we believe immersion is a valid symbol of death and ressurrection and do not baptize via sprinkling.
Baptism for us is not a salvation issue but rather a public testimony of being born again.
I tend to think of baptisms as being similar to RC baptism+confirmation, although I’m not sure if baptism is considered by the RC church as a requirement for salvation due to original sin.
We sometimes have large baptisms in South America in such where hundreds are baptized at once.
I am not really sure what the term “emblems” mean.
As Catholics we believe Christ’s Body, Blood, Human Soul and Divinity are present and hidden under the appearance of the Bread and Wine after the Consecration.
The John 6 reference really does spell out Christ’s requirement that we eat His Flesh - and this (not an analogy) is what causes the Jews to leave Christ because they can not accept this doctrine of His.
What is it that Adventestis believe about the Lord’s Supper that is different from Catholic belief.
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We do not accept the Eucharist and see the Lord’s Supper as symbolic of His flesh and blood. In fact, I personally, am even more heretical. To me, the blood is just a symbol of His life on this earth which He gave up. I.e., there are no magical qualities to the hemoglobin of Christ.

God bless you,
paul
 
greggy53 said:
What a shame, SDA’s believe that anyone who worships on Sunday is worshiping the Beast and his whore of Babylon. They teach that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon. I have watched several of their “seminars” on line and have an acquaintance that is SDA. The lies and filth that they spew about Gods church are unbelievable. They teach that the Catholic Church in the near future will put to death any Christian who refuses to worship on Sunday. They brainwash their followers with a twisted interpretation of several scriptures, and have re-written the history of the Church to suit their propaganda.
The only scriptures they care about are the ones they can twist into lies to make traps for the unwary. I have little charity for this group, for I do not believe they are at all Christian, and I welcome the chance to debate with them any time.
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Hello greggy53, please say a prayer for the SDA church. There are many fine souls worth saving even if that same charity has not been extended to you as a Catholic.

blessings,
paul
 
katgee said:
I was very close to this married couple, Catholic, who went to chiropractic school.

In the meantime, I began making full use of the rosary. They came to visit me on the West Coast to share with me ‘the truth’ about the Catholic Church and how they joined the Seventh Day Adventists. They started out if I believed that the Bible was the Word of God and said yes.

(The mother of the bride was so upset. She went to visit their church. The minister knew who she was. She got so agitated listening to the talk by the minister, she got up and walked out. As she was going out, he publicly insulted her before her daughter, son-in-law and congregation.)

Then, they said, well, the Catholic Church contradicts the Bible in many passages. It threw me because I wasn’t grounded in our history. I attended a secular university. I felt the practice of the Rosary securing my place in our Church.

Later they left after they discovered the practice of numerology by their woman founder.

I find that certain personality types are drawn to such persuasion, not trusting in human institutions because of the scandals. Catholicism and the Sabbath Masses are not emotional.

I also have noted the more fundamentalist a person is, the greater inability they have to read Catholic church history and the origin of our practices. They are just simply closed minded. I live in a state that has a very bigoted Adventist population that put a big sign on the interstate that John Paul II is the anti-Christ. Really pains me to see Catholics leave to go into sects like this.

Like if they believe Jesus is God, He was very imperfect in establishing His church…taking Him 1800 years to get it right. Alot to catch up on with the opaque human condition. I mean, look at the Apostles and how much time it took them to understand Him, and the work of the Holy Spirit to complete the work at Pentecost…
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Hello katgee,
It always saddens me to hear such stories. I’ve seen the sign you are referring to - it is embarrassing to the SDA church. There are several independent ministries that call themselves SDA and in fact are closer to the historical roots of the church. In 1957, the SDA church published Questions on Doctrine which moved us closer to the evangelical center, some folks were left behind and reject this.

Anyway, I am sorry, I am sorry whenever any Christian acts in an uncharitable manner and does not behave in a Christ-like way. It’s even sadder when entire Christian organizations behave poorly.

God bless you,
paul
 
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