what is the seventh day advantist church about?
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What Adventists Believe   \n \n\nAs a Christian church, Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures \n\nAs a Christian church, Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures. Adventists describe these beliefs in the following ways:\n\nGod's greatest desire is for you to see a clear picture of His character. When you see Him clearly, you will find His love irresistible.\n\nFor many, "seeing God clearly" requires that they see God's face. However, how He looks is not the issue. Seeing and understanding His character is what's most important. The more clearly we understand Him, the more we will find His love irresistible. As we begin to experience His love, our own lives will begin to make more sense.\n\nGod most clearly reveals His character in three great events. The first is His creation of man and woman--and His giving them the freedom of choice. He created humans with the ability to choose to love Him or to hate Him! The death of Jesus Christ, God's only Son, on the cross as our substitute is the second great event. In that act He paid the penalty we deserve for our hateful choices toward God and His ways. Jesus' death guarantees forgiveness for those choices and allows us to spend eternity with Him. The third event confirms the first two and fills every heart with hope: Christ's tomb is empty! He is alive, living to fill us with His love!\n\nJesus' disciple John wrote that if everyone wrote all the stories they knew about Jesus, the whole world could not contain them. Our knowledge of God helps us understand His love, character, and grace. Experiencing that love begins a lifelong adventure in growth and service. This knowledge and experience powers our mission to tell the world about His love and His offer of salvation.\n\nScripture is a road map. The Bible is God's voice, speaking His love personally to you today.\n\nThe Bible speaks the Creator's directions to us, like a detailed road map that clearly shows the exit ramp directly into heaven. It is also much like an owner's manual for a life ready to be lived on the cutting edge of liberty.\n\nSometimes His voice speaks through stories, such as those of David and Goliath, Ruth and Boaz, Naaman's little servant girl, Christ on the cross, and fisherman Peter learning how to tend sheep. Some of these stories teach us how to handle the troubles we face each day. Others fill us with hope and peace. Each of them is like a personal letter from God to you.\n\nPortions of Scripture are direct instructions and laws from God such as the Ten Commandments, recorded in Exodus 20. These tell us more about God and His expectations for us. When people asked Jesus to summarize these commands, He focused on the way God's love affects the way we live. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul," He said. "And love your neighbor as you love yourself."\n\nOn other pages the Bible gives God's practical advice and encouragement through parables, lists, promises, and warnings. Amazingly, though many different writers throughout thousands of years wrote the Bible, each page describes the same God in ways we can understand and apply in our lives today. This book is always His voice talking personally to anyone who is willing to read and hear.\n\nGod loves us even when we choose to reject His love. In those times He allows us to walk away into the life of our own choices. Yet He is still there, always ready to redeem us from the results of our decisions.\n\nJesus is the one who never changes in a universe that always does. Jesus is Creator, Sustainer, Saviour, Friend, God's Son, and God Himself!\n\nEverything in this world is always changing, even our desires, interests, skills, and body shapes. But Jesus? He's consistent. He's always the same. Sure, He's always surprising us and
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Jason M - That has to do with months, not weeks.\n\nThe 7 day week is because of creation.
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One could say the universe was created in 7 days.  A day is one rotation of the world.  How is it that God created some of these things when there was no globe in which to register this amount of time.  The bible also says that 1000 years are not even a day to god.  If god was the only one around then time was mostly on his own watch, most likely that is.  So no I don't believe the whole 7 days thing.\n\nI like biblical literalist.  I wonder if the first guy believes the sun rotates around the world as it states in the bible.
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This is what I know.  I worked with a guy who was one once.  We were on mandatory 12 hours a day 6 days a week, with voluntary o.t. on Sundays.  He got to leave work an hour before sundown on Friday, and didn't have to work until after daybreak Monday morning.  Great deal isn't it?\n\nAnd, this is the best part, he was dating an underage girl.  He would race from work at noon to go to her home for a "nooner".  So one day he was being an a** about not having to work the weekends\n\nI said, "so, let me get this right, a Seventh-Day Adventist, cannot work the weekends to honor God.  But they CAN screw their underage and illegal girlfriend in her parents home.  Great Religion!\n\nSo really, they are like all Christians, some are devout and truly believe, some are the "feel gooders" that only go to church to hedge their bets, and some are scum.  See just like every other type.
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The Sabbath, or day of rest, is a common feature of Jewish and Christian religions.  Jews preserve the original Sabbath of the Hebrew and later Jewish faith, Saturday (dusk Friday to dusk Saturday), the 7th day of creation in the Genesis narrative.  Jews are enjoined by Jewish Law to observe specific practices on the Sabbath including avoidance of work in favor of reflection, prayer, and study.  For most Christians (other than Seventh Day Adventists), the belief that Jesus' resurrection occurred on a Sunday shifted the Sabbath to Sunday, and the Christian Sabbath is more about a period of time when it is obligatory to attend church services than a separate way of daily living, as seen in the Jewish faith.  Both Christians and Jews vary widely from sect to sect and individual to individual as to the importance and strictness of Sabbath-keeping customs.\n\nHope this helps.
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Never heard of it, But I run a home based church about 1 hour from Cleveland. If ever interested in attending you can contact me through my website below. Very anti denominational but pro God. Would love to have you show up. No tithing or offering wanted.
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A Direct quote from an Anglican minister:\n\n"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."
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The Sabbath was part of the Levitical covenant with Israel. If you read about the prophetic feasts, the feast which prophecies the church was to be celebrated the day AFTER the Sabbath. So the church was prophesied to meet on that day. However, I worship all seven days.
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Your final statement is quite telling. You still need someone else to prove you wrong! \n\nHow many more unanswered questions must you have about the church that you belong to before you make the cognitive decision, once and for all, to get the hell out of Dodge anyway? If I were you I'd skedaddle outta town before high noon!\n\nI know I did.
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The Bible speaks of 6 creative days.  It does not say that the days lasted 24 hours.  A day can indicate a period of time (in Noah's day, for example).  The Bible also says that a 1000 years is a day to God.  On the seventh day he rested from his creative works.  We are still in the seventh day of rest.  (we see this seventh day is longer than 24 hours, and longer than a 1000 years)  Scientific evidence supports that the earth is 4 billion years old.
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6 day creation is true.  Your scientists need a Prozac.\n\nIf a day equals 1000 years and 1000 years equals a day, then since Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, does this have significance for His Second Coming? \n\n Let's see some things that really do seem to have significance, first of all from Ha'aretz "Small Quake Hits Dead Sea; Experts: Big One On The Way." And from Templemount.org "Israeli President asks Vatican to Reveal List of Temple Treasures, Vessels and Judacia they Hold." \n\nI guess they had some things right there in the Vatican that they would like to know about and they would like to have. First of all,   \n\n the Rabbis said that there would only be seven days in world history because a day was like 1,000 years, Psalm 90:4, and it was patterned after creation. He created the world in six days, Genesis 1:31 and rested on the 7th day, Genesis 2:2. And since each day represents 1,000 years, and we Christians also set that according to II Peter 3:8, we then have four days of Old Testament time and three days of New Testament time for the total of 7000 years, So let's just deal with the three days of New Testament time. \n\nHere is proof that this is correct, Hosea 6, verse 2. The Jews didn't have their own land for a couple thousand years and they say after two days, 2,000 years, He'll revive us - that happened in 1948, almost after 2,000 years, then on the third day which just started in the last number of months, He will raise us up that we may live in his sight, the Jews are raised in Daniel 12, when the Messiah comes and sets his foot upon the earth. Now here are two exciting signs that , They're expecting the greatest earthquake ever and it's right there at the Dead Sea fault and when Jesus Christ returns His Feet hit the Mount of Olives and it splits down the center and they say, we are waiting for that big one and that could be the return of Christ. But the most exciting thing, beyond that, is that the Jews are asking for all of the things the Vatican has from the old temples. Why? Because they have built the replica of the exact temple 269,000 square feet by the dead sea! And they are putting everything in it and getting all the Cohen's. For they are the Levites, they're prepared to do sacrifice so that when the real one is built, the one in which antichrist sits, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 and says he's god, Daniel 11:36, it will be ready. It's that close. Then Christ comes and sits in it permanently. Ezekiel 40 to 44.
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The Seventh Day Adventist church is in 209 of the world's 236 nations (more than any other Christian church) they have the second largest system of Christian schools 85 universities, 953 secondary schools, 148 hospitals, 354 clinics, they make use of 713 languages.  Revelation teaches that the remnant church keeps all of God's commandments including the 4th and they teach the Gospel to all the nations.  There are almost 4000 people joining the Adventist church second only to Catholocism I believe.  The Mormon church teach a lot that the Bible doesn't they say the Book of Mormon is superior to the Bible,  people are in heaven right now, baptism services for the dead, polygamy, no divorce, if you're not Mormon you will be servants of them in heaven, eternal hell, etc... I still haven't found a scripture that supports most of their beliefs.  Not trying to force you to do anything just giving facts, if you have any questions about anything you can contact me anytime. peace out brother
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Yes. But the real question is what are you doing with your seven days a week, starting today. Remember the Lord (God) has given you this day. So live it.
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The true church (Eph.5:27; Acts 20:28) still exists today! Only a few (Matt.7:14; Eph.4:14)people are in the one flock today. Yes, many have wandered away from the truth(Acts 20:29-30; Col.2:8) and established their own righteousness(Rom.10:3). The few(Matt.22:14) that God called out (2Tim.1:9)of 2nd Babylon(confusion) are in (Eph.4:4; 1Cor.1:25-29))God's Church today. The gospel is being preached today, but only few will accept it!\nLook what Matt.7:21-24 says!\n\nThe true church isn't the Catholic Church. It doesn't preach or teach the true gospel of Rev.14:7-12. Mostly it is called the Beast or Anti-Christ in Revelation. The protestants came out of her, but still follow her(Rev.17:5). \nClues: "sits on 7 hills"= Rev.17:9;  "claims to be God"=Dan.7:8; Rev.13:1; 17:3; 2Thess.2:4; \n"has thought to change law of God"=Dan.7:25(General Catholic Catechism) and "cast all truth to the ground"=Dan.8:12.\n\nIn Encyclopedia--I looked up the Catholic Church or Roman Catholic Church or Sunday---I forgot. But anyway; it tells you that it destroyed the 3 Arian tribes which are spoken in Daniel 7:24. But anyway there's alot of clues that the Catholic Church is the Beast of Revelation and not God's True Church. I have tons of information on these subjects in-\nhttp://community.webshots.com/user/morrisonmcdf1
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Seventh Day Adventists believe that we should observe the same day of rest and worship as the Israelites, whose days began from sundown til sundown, and Sabbath was from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday. Most folks today recognize Sunday as the last day of the week (or as the first ) and the one that is reserved for most religious services. For 7DA, it's about whether you are a Sunday keeper or a Sabbath keeper.
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The keep the sabeth on Saturday from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday similiar to Jewish. Christ rose again on Sunday so Christians switched to using Sunday.\nI know Seventh Day Adventists tend to be vegitarians, rather strict/serious about their beliefs such as no working(or play) on the sabeth.
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The seventh Article of Faith explains that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe in various spiritual gifts:\n\nWe believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.\n\nMembers of the church believe that these gifts are bestowed upon those who desire to serve God, through the power of the Holy Ghost. We do not hold all of these gifts at the same time. We are given these gifts at times when they are needed to fulfill God’s purposes upon the earth, and when they can be used to benefit and bless the lives of others.\n\n“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.\nAnd there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.\nAnd there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.\nBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.” (1 Corinthians 12:4-7)