Post by Brother Ben on Sept 23, 2005 19:28:22 GMT -5
Sister Heather asked about the SDA denomination in the Church of Christ post so I thought I'd write a bit on this for the brethren.
The Seventh Day Adventist movement was originally founded by William Miller. Miller was converted to Christianity and, like Alexander Campbell of the church of Christ, was originally with the Baptists. Miller went to seed on the second coming and started attracting others interested in this topic. He made some prophecies about the Lord coming back in his time which did not come to pass. He died, but his misguided movement lived on.
Later Ellen Harmon married James White and with others they gave the movement the name, The Seventh Day Adventists. Ellen G. White wrote quite a bit and her writings are considered "inspired," and equal with scripture.
One of their teachings is that one must keep Saturday sabbath and that Sunday observation is "The Mark of the Beast." In other words, if you worship on Sunday, you are worshipping the antichrist!
None of their evangelistic literature says, Seventh Day Adventist, it always says something like, Bible Studies, End Time Truth, etc. Here in Murfreesboro they had a billborad on the side of the interstate that said, "In the end times, Sunday worship will be enforced as the Mark of the Beast."
Like the church of Christ and the Mormons, they believe baptism is necessary in order to obtain salvation. Strangely, I find these groups have a link to Roman Catholicism in this deviant teaching. If one has to be baptized in order to be saved, then logically there has to be a "human" priest/agent to baptize you into Christ. But the Bible says, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" I Tim. 2:5 If a human agent is necessary for, in this case, baptism, then the apostle Paul must have been mistaken and there are "TWO" mediators between God and men, Christ AND the baptizer. That's bad doctrine. "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar..." Romans 3:4a
I have said in other posts that error begets error. An example of bad doctrine gone worse is the Seventh Day Adventist Separatist group we all became familiar with in the early 1990's lead by David Koresh called the Branch Davidians. Wow! huh. Be not mistaken, the SDA group IS a cult in the classic sense. Beware!
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 6:16
The Seventh Day Adventist movement was originally founded by William Miller. Miller was converted to Christianity and, like Alexander Campbell of the church of Christ, was originally with the Baptists. Miller went to seed on the second coming and started attracting others interested in this topic. He made some prophecies about the Lord coming back in his time which did not come to pass. He died, but his misguided movement lived on.
Later Ellen Harmon married James White and with others they gave the movement the name, The Seventh Day Adventists. Ellen G. White wrote quite a bit and her writings are considered "inspired," and equal with scripture.
One of their teachings is that one must keep Saturday sabbath and that Sunday observation is "The Mark of the Beast." In other words, if you worship on Sunday, you are worshipping the antichrist!
None of their evangelistic literature says, Seventh Day Adventist, it always says something like, Bible Studies, End Time Truth, etc. Here in Murfreesboro they had a billborad on the side of the interstate that said, "In the end times, Sunday worship will be enforced as the Mark of the Beast."
Like the church of Christ and the Mormons, they believe baptism is necessary in order to obtain salvation. Strangely, I find these groups have a link to Roman Catholicism in this deviant teaching. If one has to be baptized in order to be saved, then logically there has to be a "human" priest/agent to baptize you into Christ. But the Bible says, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" I Tim. 2:5 If a human agent is necessary for, in this case, baptism, then the apostle Paul must have been mistaken and there are "TWO" mediators between God and men, Christ AND the baptizer. That's bad doctrine. "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar..." Romans 3:4a
I have said in other posts that error begets error. An example of bad doctrine gone worse is the Seventh Day Adventist Separatist group we all became familiar with in the early 1990's lead by David Koresh called the Branch Davidians. Wow! huh. Be not mistaken, the SDA group IS a cult in the classic sense. Beware!
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 6:16