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Some media/news reports have presented William Miller as the founder of Seventh-day Adventists.
Miller's preaching was in the 1830's and 1840's. the Seventh-day Adventist church organized in the early 1860's.
Miller's difference with Seventh-day Adventists can be stated as follows.
Suppose you have a Baptist that still retains the classic Protestant historicist model for prophetic interpretation. Well that would be William Miller. nothing more nothing less.
And everywhere - where such a Baptist would claim to differ with SDAs - is exactly where Miller would claim to differ with them during the years he lived after the 1844 "Great Disappointment".
Seventh-day Adventists have great respect for Miller and believe he will be raised in the first resurrection - 'the dead in Christ rise first' - 1Thess 4. But claiming that Miller is the founder of the Adventist church would be almost like claiming that the Pope founded the Lutheran church. (Some differences of course since Adventists have no axe to grind with Miller - just doctrinal differences about the sanctuary in heaven, Sabbath, mortality of man, Prophets etc.)
Miller's preaching was in the 1830's and 1840's. the Seventh-day Adventist church organized in the early 1860's.
Miller's difference with Seventh-day Adventists can be stated as follows.
Suppose you have a Baptist that still retains the classic Protestant historicist model for prophetic interpretation. Well that would be William Miller. nothing more nothing less.
And everywhere - where such a Baptist would claim to differ with SDAs - is exactly where Miller would claim to differ with them during the years he lived after the 1844 "Great Disappointment".
Seventh-day Adventists have great respect for Miller and believe he will be raised in the first resurrection - 'the dead in Christ rise first' - 1Thess 4. But claiming that Miller is the founder of the Adventist church would be almost like claiming that the Pope founded the Lutheran church. (Some differences of course since Adventists have no axe to grind with Miller - just doctrinal differences about the sanctuary in heaven, Sabbath, mortality of man, Prophets etc.)
