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My Beliefs
Things You Need To Know Before Checking Out My Beliefs and Studying The Bible
Sola Scriptura (The Bible Only)
In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love.
Wondering what kind of Christian I am? I'm a Seventh-day Adventist Christian (not to be confused with Latter-day Saints / Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses).
''Seventh-day'' refers to the 24-hour, sundown-to-sundown rest from work and school and the worship and fellowship on Saturday, the Sabbath of the 4th Commandment. ''Adventist'' refers to Jesus' second advent, or coming.
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- Beliefs That Distinguish Us as Adventists
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- Our Beliefs and the Bible Verses They're Based On
- Book: ''Seventh-day Adventists Believe...A Biblical Exposition of 28 Fundamental Doctrines''
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Alternate Views:
- Arminian | *
- Evangelical **
- Credobaptist | #
- Historic Premillennialist | ^ | ^^ (nontribulationist °)
- Historicist | °°
- Nondispensationalist + and
- Noncovenantalist ++
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Even with the beliefs, about the following doctrines, that distinguish us as Adventists...
The Sabbath, the State of the Dead, Jesus' 2nd Coming, Hell, the Gift of Prophecy and the Investigative Judgment
...we have much in common with other Evangelical, Protestant Christians, including our beliefs' roots in the Protestant Reformation.
Question: Why are there so many Christian denominations and views?
Answer: 1) Because we all interpret the Bible's doctrines differently; sometimes because of our preconceived notions and prejudices; other times because we don't clearly or fully understand doctrines that would clarify other doctrines.
And 2) because we emphasize different doctrines and beliefs about them. (There are probably other reasons.) To learn more, get the book ''Why So Many Denominations?''
Our Health Message
We apply and for over 100 years have been teaching the guidelines of this message, which among other things includes a vegetarian or preferably (especially these days) vegan diet, not in order to earn righteousness or salvation, nor even because some verses in the Bible seem to support it...
...but because we believe, and scientific research has confirmed, that the choices we make regarding nutrition, exercise, sleep, entertainment, hobbies, friends, etc., have a very significant effect on our physical and emotional health, and thus on our quality of life, and especially, we also believe, as a result of their effect on our bodies and minds, on our spiritual health.
Such a significant effect, in fact, that making bad choices about these things could cause us to lose interest in God to such an extent that it would result in our losing out on eternal life. This, along with the opportunity for true, lasting happiness in this life, is why we work to educate others about physical and emotional health.
The Investigative Judgement
Perhaps one of the most maligned and misunderstood of our beliefs, the investigative judgement, is believed by many Christians to have been created to explain away the Great Disappointment in 1844, that it's unbiblical, that it's based on the writings of one of our three founders, and that it turns righteousness by faith into a form of righteousness by works.
Again, quite the contrary. When seen in the light of the earthly sanctuary, which God gave the Jews and the rest of us to reveal the workings of the heavenly sanctuary, we can see that Jesus is indeed following the same pattern of ministration in our behalf, in the heavenly sanctuary, that the Jewish priests did in the earthly sanctuary, to deal justly and mercifully with our sins.
We can also see that instead of turning righteousness by faith into a form of righteousness by works, it instead confirms righteousness by faith.
Learn More About Our Beliefs Concerning the Sanctuary and the Investigative Judgement
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