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It's been my observation. I don't think we've had enough exchanges for you to be familiar with my beliefs. I don't follow theologians much. I have a general idea of what some of them teach and I don't have a favorite.
I've never read an EGW book either. But I have enough familiarity with her theology to recognize it. The same goes with John Calvin as one of several examples. I'm familiar enough with his theology to recognize when someone is posting Calvinism. Which they likely learned from other Calvinists as opposed to reading Calvin himself. There are quite a lot of people who belong to a particular group out of many who say they have the one Truth. The more I hear "we're the ones with the only real truth", the more red flags I see.
That's because it's not a religion to them.
It's new. It's that zero off to the far right with a chevron above it. I just clicked it and gave you an upvote. It seems to be a system no one knows about or uses.
I find this post really disappointing for a few reasons. You seem to be condemning 22 million people that you claim drifted away from its first love with Jesus is judging 22 million people that you do not know. Only Jesus knows the hearts of all people so we need to leave the judging with Christ. The second reason this is disappointing is you claim to be representing the SDA church yet, you seem to condemn it more than support. I already offered a link to the official beliefs, because I have seen too many people who claim to be SDA, but yet have their own doctrine, which essentially makes one a false witness. What separates denominations is doctrine and personally I would not be associated with a denomination if I thought it drifted away from loving Jesus, what would that say about me. My experience for the most part in the SDA church has been finding loving people who love Jesus and seek Him fully and seek His Truth. Are there bad apples in every denomination and in every congregation, yes, we are warned those who claim to be part of our organization will do the most harm.
I also disagree that the SDA church doesn't teach righteousness by faith. Thunder Lauriston lecture on "Why Sunday worship cannot be the Mark of the Beast"
This is just one pastor but do a search on righteousness by faith and you will find 10 pages of various sermons.
Another from YouTube
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From the Official Adventist Sabbath School study
In infinite love and mercy God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might be made the righteousness of God. Led by the Holy Spirit we sense our need, acknowledge our sinfulness, repent of our transgressions, and exercise faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord, Substitute and Example. This saving faith comes through the divine power of the Word and is the gift of God’s grace. Through Christ we are justified, adopted as God’s sons and daughters, and delivered from the lordship of sin. Through the Spirit we are born again and sanctified; the Spirit renews our minds, writes God’s law of love in our hearts, and we are given the power to live a holy life. Abiding in Him we become partakers of the divine nature and have the assurance of salvation now and in the judgment. (Gen. 3:15; Isa. 45:22; Isa. 53; Jer. 31:31-34; Ezek. 33:11; 36:25-27; Hab. 2:4; Mark 9:23, 24; John 3:3-8, 16; 16:8; Rom. 3:21-26; 8:1-4, 14-17; 5:6-10; 10:17; 12:2; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; Gal. 1:4; 3:13, 14, 26; 4:4-7; Eph. 2:4-10; Col. 1:13, 14; Titus 3:3-7; Heb. 8:7-12; 1 Peter 1:23; 2:21, 22; 2 Peter 1:3, 4; Rev. 13:8.)How Do We Experience Salvation in Christ?
Salvation isn’t earned, it’s received. The Bible shows how God reaches us with grace and transforms our lives.www.adventist.org
Hardly any professing Christian church does. Almost all teach we are still in our sin and will sin to the day we die. That is not righteousness through and by the faith that is in and of Christ Jesus. Sadly the church went from sacrificing animals every day to sacrificing Christ afresh and putting Him to open shame, counting the blood of the covenant for nothing, doing despite unto the Spirit of grace.
No for most it is because the world has brainwashed them to think it doesn't matter. Do thine own will and mind your own business.
Some seem a lot more extreme than others.
Sunday church is a matter of recorded church history going back to Apostolic Fathers, and according to them, a practice held by the Apostles themselves. And always the chuch gathered daily Acts 2:46. Interestingly this practice is really only still kept by the Catholic Church which holds daily mass. For the most part it wasn't until the 19th century that a supposed prophet started convincing Christians they have been doing it wrong since the beginning and needed to go back to the old covenant with the Jews format.
It is very problematic to discuss SDA beliefs in the traditional Adventist forum in any kind of critical way.
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SDA theology is first mentioned by the OP in post #6. Ellen is first mentioned in post #37.
Well, it was a bad day to be an Assyrian in the days of Hezekiah... Not so much Jehoshaphat.
But only in America. Since according to the prophet the Mark of the Beast is going to be the result of a "National Sunday Law" that apparently leaves the rest of the world off the hook. A friend of mine moved to Panama a few years ago. Maybe I'll join him just to play it safe.
That's what I thought too, about the rest of the world being off the hook. But apparently some who believe a national Sunday law is something that could realistically happen in the USA say that, for unknown reasons, the rest of the world follows suit.
It hadn't occurred to me until quite recently when I heard "national sunday law" repeated a few times, that that would restrict it to a single nation. And then of course I saw that as a pretty big plot hole. It seems a lot of Americans have seen most or all of it being staged in the US. Or at least that the US will play a highly significant role in those events.
There was a very strong attempt to pass a national Sunday law in 1888. The following link from an enemy of SDAs confirms this.
And here is a link which says Sunday laws exist in several different European nations.
