Hello Bob.
I need to supply the background of the SDA to reach the CAC.
Background and history of the SDA. Christianity Protestantism, Anabaptists Restorationism, Pietism, Millerism, then the Great Disappointment.
Young Ellen White was converted at a Methodist camp, age 9. (Wikipedia)
Then Ellen was baptized within the Millerite movement, age 12. (Wikipedia)
Millerism (followers of the teachings of William Miller)
Miller first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur in roughly the year 1843. Though Himes did not fully accept Miller’s ideas until 1842, he established the fortnightly paper
Signs of the Times to publicize them. The first edition was published on February 28, 1840, with Himes as editor.
It continues to be published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a monthly evangelistic magazine under the same
name. (Wikipedia)
Ellen White's visions started at age 17.
Now we can proceed to the present era.
Yesterday the leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church, with world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a membership of almost 30 million, voted on an article of
reorganization, based on a decade of long-standing differences and numerous lawsuits between regional church leaders in the United States, Canada, Western Europe and the rest of the world church. The preliminary agreement of reorganization, reached late Tuesday night, would separate the church into two distinct entities with no formal ties to each other.
This would be only the second time in its 161-year history that a major split has occurred. The world church would retain the name Seventh-day Adventists; the new church would be called the Christian Adventist Church (CAC). The first major split occurred about a decade ago with the formal separation of the SDA church in China from the church’s Maryland headquarters.
The tension started in earnest in 2009 with disagreement over issues of interpretation of biblical creation, women’s ordination, tithing, the gift of prophecy, and the relevancy of some of its doctrines;
namely the doctrine of the Investigative Judgment, which has had a long history of detractors. Failure to come to any consensus eventually led to many church districts moving out on their own against the guidance of the church’s administrative body, known as the General Conference. (Christian News Media)
Other movements associated with the SDA.
Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement
True and Free Seventh-day Adventists
Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Branch Davidians.
It is not difficult to see the various doctrinal layers adopted from previous movements, that Ellen carried into the SDA organization. Though the Millerites seemed to have the greatest influence on young Ellen.
