Seventh Day Adventists and Diet

A Gerbil said:

Genesis 1:29 - And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food."



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I only joined this forum today, in the hope of being directed towards a new church. Somebody suggested the Seventh Day Adventists and quite frankly I am amazed by some of the things I have read. My only concern is the eschatology seems a bit too precise to have come solely from the Bible.

As a forty year old man who has done his fair share of drinking, smoking and who is now beginning to suffer for it, I do not find the strict lifestyle disconcerting. On the contrary, it seems like a sign.

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Good point - claiming to have a special message and mission from God the way that Moses did and the way that Paul did - lead to a big leap in doctrinal understanding including health in the case of Moses. The Seventh-day Adventist church makes a similar claim to having that hot-wire connection only for the last days not some other age in Earth's history. So we should expect to see some amazing results if that claim is true.

In Feb of 2015 Christianity Today published an article on Ben Carson (Also a Seventh-day Adventist) where they point out that the Seventh-day Adventist church has gone from a group of about 50 in late 1844 to now being the 5th largest Christian denomination on planet Earth. That is no accident.

SDA doctrine is all based on the protestant principle of "Sola Scriptura" testing of all doctrine and practice.

There is an SDA forum on Christian Forums that is dedicated to answering questions.

A Gerbil said:

Genesis 1:29 - And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food."



Full article: These Americans live seven to eleven years longer. What's their secret?


I only joined this forum today, in the hope of being directed towards a new church. Somebody suggested the Seventh Day Adventists and quite frankly I am amazed by some of the things I have read. My only concern is the eschatology seems a bit too precise to have come solely from the Bible.

As a forty year old man who has done his fair share of drinking, smoking and who is now beginning to suffer for it, I do not find the strict lifestyle disconcerting. On the contrary, it seems like a sign.

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Happy to have you here. Most of what we believe as SDA's was actually believed by the early protestant reformers. It is interesting that when it comes to eschatology, most of the protestant denominations now do not believe what they founders actually believed and there is a specific reason for that. In short this is how it went down. When the protestant reformation began you have guys like Martin Luther, John Wesley and others who all believed that the Beast spoken of in Revelation 13 and the little horn spoken of in Daniel 7, pointed to the Papacy or Papal Rome. Roman Catholicism as you know was the dominant religion of that time. They launched someone known as the counter reformation in which the catholic church did a number of things to combat the reformation. One of the things they did was to commission 2 Jesuit Priest to develop different systems of interpreting bible prophecy. One of this was Futurism championed by Francisco Ribera and the majority of the Christian world follows that system of prophetic interpretation.

Francisco Ribera - Wikipedia

If you subscribe to this system, it would be impossible for the Papacy to be the beast/little horn power the scriptures referred to. If you are interested in some eschatological studies to see the evidence and scriptural basis for our beliefs I have some great videos I can share.

A Gerbil said:

Genesis 1:29 - And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food."



Full article: These Americans live seven to eleven years longer. What's their secret?


I only joined this forum today, in the hope of being directed towards a new church. Somebody suggested the Seventh Day Adventists and quite frankly I am amazed by some of the things I have read. My only concern is the eschatology seems a bit too precise to have come solely from the Bible.

As a forty year old man who has done his fair share of drinking, smoking and who is now beginning to suffer for it, I do not find the strict lifestyle disconcerting. On the contrary, it seems like a sign.

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Could you explain this a little further? Why do you think the Bible isn't precise?

I also need to say congrats on getting your life together and getting away from the self-destructive life of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. I spent more than my fair share of time in that life and understand the consequences very well. That you've gotten out of that life says to me God is drawing you on to better things for it takes the power of God to break that kind of grip on us. It tells me the Holy Spirit is active in your life and heart. Keep on following the influence of God. He truly rewards those who honestly seek Him.