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Hold the phone Lady. There is a marked difference between loving our Adventist brothers and sisters and loving their doctrines. I rubbed elbows with SDAs for forty years.. I love them dearly. They are some of the most faithful people on Earth. I would and have trusted them with my life. Spiritually wise they are completely off base and as David writes are very accusing of other Christians too the point of the following: It means eternal salvation to keep the Sabbath holy unto the Lord. God says: "Them that honor Me I will honor." {6T 356.4}
But if we turn aside from the fourth commandment, so positively given by God, to adopt the inventions of Satan, voiced and acted by men under his control, we cannot be saved. We cannot with safety receive his traditions and subtleties as truth. {RH, July 6, 1897 par. 4} Both from the "inspired" writings of Ellen White.
The one who wrote that is their prophet and the prophet is revered. Some of them revere her so much they believe her writings should be included in cannon.
We have already concluded that observing old covenant rituals was not for Israel's salvation, yet that woman, supposedly God's mouthpiece, couldn't figure that out. Her lies are being found out by the members and the sheep are leaving quietly, or even if they stay because of bond thy have with each other they do so in unbelief.
Well, as you know, I left the SDA church when I was 23 after a debate with a loving Church of Christ worship leader who took me through the Bible on the law vs. grace. It took till 4 o'clock in the morning, but finally "a light went on" and I got it!
I could name you countless pastors who preach error every Sunday. EGW was not in the Spirit every day, but she was a good woman. She was convinced of her beliefs that the Ten Commandments were for the church, as hundreds of denominations teach, and tried to warn people against what she believed were false traditions from the Roman Catholic Church, the first, namely, changing the Sabbath to Sunday. Those denominations who call Sunday, the Sabbath, and worship on Sunday because of the 4th commandment, are worshiping on that day for the wrong reasons and in error.
If the Sabbath commandment was still in our New Covenant, which is now not once a week, but everyday trusting God and believing in His Son, Jesus Christ, then we should all be worshiping on Saturday. There is no getting around what is written plainly. Saturday is the Sabbath, not Sunday. However, because of Jesus and His resurrection on Sunday, Christians under our New Covenant celebrate His resurrection and the reason for our own hope of resurrection on Sunday. Not out of law, but from our hearts.
The Sabbath was the sign of the Old Covenant, the Ten Commandments (Exodus 34:28, and Exodus 31:13). The sign of our New Covenant, based on the blood of Jesus Christ is the Cup of the New Covenant (1 Corinthians 11:25).
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