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Seventh Day Adventist compatibility with Baptists?

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Good evening :)

So I am just curious about this as I have been led to believe that Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) are comparable to Jehovah's Witness' or the Latter Day Saints.

Is there any truth to this? Can this claim be accurate? Because I know that JWs and LDS do not hold to Sola Scriptura, however I have read the basic beliefs of the SDA church on their website and it seems pretty sound to me with regards to who Christ is. The only discrepancies I came across was with their eschatology, mainly soul sleep and annihilationism. Though with keeping Saturday as the Sabbath day was not, in my view relevant to my internal debate.

Could anyone therefore advise me, could a Baptist attend a service one Saturday at an SDA church without compromising his faith in the Lord? Does the SDA church hold to an "exclusive" form of salvation like the Catholic church does in which there can only be salvation found within it's sect?
 

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Good evening :)

So I am just curious about this as I have been led to believe that Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) are comparable to Jehovah's Witness' or the Latter Day Saints.

Is there any truth to this? Can this claim be accurate? Because I know that JWs and LDS do not hold to Sola Scriptura, however I have read the basic beliefs of the SDA church on their website and it seems pretty sound to me with regards to who Christ is. The only discrepancies I came across was with their eschatology, mainly soul sleep and annihilationism. Though with keeping Saturday as the Sabbath day was not, in my view relevant to my internal debate.

Could anyone therefore advise me, could a Baptist attend a service one Saturday at an SDA church without compromising his faith in the Lord? Does the SDA church hold to an "exclusive" form of salvation like the Catholic church does in which there can only be salvation found within it's sect?

The reason for classifying the SDA with the JWs and LDS is twofold: 1) soul sleep denies the nature of Man and 2) the writings of Ellen G. White are put on a par with the Bible. Both are taken to be marks of cults by people who research and write in that field. If this is accurate to say, soul sleep is not an incidental as you seem to be saying...and the church is not Sola Scriptura. Some SDAs do not say that Ellen G. White's revelations are prophesy but that they are simply important insights, however even they seem to me to treat what she had to say as if it were divine revelation.
 
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