What can you tell me about the Seventh-Day Adventist religion?
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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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Try this website for starters:\n\nwww.religoustolerance.org
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The Unitarin Universalists:\n\n"The living tradition which we share draws from many sources:\n\n    * Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;\n    * Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion and the transforming power of love;\n    * Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;\n    * Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;\n    * Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;\n    * Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature."
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SDA's are "suppose" to teach the keeping of the whole moral law including the seventh day Sabbath which is Saturday, righteousness by faith, perfection in Christ, the refraining from all harmful foods and practices (including all animal products which are diseased), the second coming of Christ, that the Anti-Christ is the Papacy, the state of the dead, the Godhead,the Spirit of Prophecy through EG White. You find that the true SDA's will teach this. There have been some in the mainstream churches who no longer teach these truths which were taught when God gave them to the pioneers of this faith in the 1800's.
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I was raised 7th Day Adventist, Practiced Wicca in my teens, and currently do not consider myself to be of any one religion. \n\nI think that many different religions got part of it right, but not all of it.\n\nI am extremely spiritual and find my sanctuary in the forests among the ferns.
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check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteronomist
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I am glad that you are interested in finding out more about the Church. Typically, an interested person meets with the missionaries to learn about the basic beliefs of the church, attends church, commits to live the Gospel and has an interview with an ecclesiastical leader to help ensure that there are no questions or concerns. \nHere are a couple of links that will be of assistance:\n\nwww.lds.org\nThe Church's official homepage.\nhttp://www.lds.org/basicbeliefs/meetinghouse/0,6017,352-1,00.html\nHere is the address to the meeting house locator. \nhttp://www.lds.org/sharefriend/1,14111,3724-1,00.html\nThis link allows you to request a visit from the missionaries or call 1-888-537-7700.\n\nIf I can be of any further assistance or answer any questions please let me know.
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SDA christians SOuthern Baptists and Mormons.... scary
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Yes, they are. They have been a recognized religion for many years, the world over. Check out their official website below for any accurate information you may be looking for on them and their beliefs.\n\nAn examination of their faith will show unmistakably that their teachings and practices are in complete harmony with the Holy Bible.\n\nThey don't change or revise the scriptures to fit their interpretation. If anything, they put BACK into the Bible what most other religions take out, most notably God's personal name.\n\nNOTE: Ignore the last comment below, as the comments reflect personal bias, prejudice, and just plain ignorance, as evidenced from the start of their ramblings by calling them a "cult". This individual purposely twists and distorts information to fit his own personal prejudice and the comments cannot be taken seriously.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html\n\nQuiz that will ask numerous questions and the relative importance to you of each issue, and return results of what religions your current beliefs are most in sync with.
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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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http://bopedia.com/en/wikipedia/l/la/laestadian.html \n\nHere's a good place to find some info. They are followers of a religous movement founded by Lars Levi Lestadius who was a Swedish-Saami. He lived in the 19th century.
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It is a religious rights organization, mainly focused on issues that impact evangelical Christians.  I believe it was founded by Pat Robertson.
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The Seventh Day Adventists are members of the sectarian movement.  It is a side effect of being sectarian of being especially anti-Catholic.  They hold a number of myths to be true that have no basis in historical fact.  They are anit-Catholic because they inherited the idea and are more extreme because they are more extreme than their predecessor belief group.\n\nIt is important to understand that they believe themselves to be the correct group of Christians.  All others are wrong and Catholics especially as they see Catholicism as the source of all other Protestant errors.
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check out these websites which give information on distance learning programmes : \n- www.iaci-canada.com\n- www.columbiasouthern.edu\n- www.apus.edu\n- www.anthemcollege.com\n- www.classesusa.com\n- www.universityofphoenixdegree.com\n- news.adventist.org/data/2005/01/1108138661/index.html.en\n- www.community.gospelcom.net/Brix?pageID=12213 \n- www.concertinopublications.com/correspond.html \n- www.ecsministries.org
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A quick sketch of the most general classification:\n\nThe most general classification would include 5 groups:\n1. Orthodox types, (such as Catholic, Coptic, East Orthodox) following tradition of various sorts and believing to hold strictly to the Bible, the church is the main authority.\n\n2. Protestant types, (such as Lutheran, ect...) following tradition but rejecting various hierarchy of "orthodox" types, and believing to be more conservatively adherent to the Bible, still focusing on practice as Orthodox types but not practice in the framework of that hierarchy.\n\n3. Independent protestant types, (such as Methodist, Baptist, ...) believing to be more conservative, authority is based on the Bible, not the church leadership, viewed as more liberal.  Pastors are guides with the Bible, not the authority strictly speaking.\n\n4. Charasmatic types, these blend together with the Independent Protestant types today, some believe in speaking in tongues, they generally believe the Bible is true but they will believe that God is bringing messages today independent of the Bible.  Authority shits away from the Bible to an imperceptible degree in some cases and a lot in other cases.  some of these can be cult like, and group 5 can include cult like groups.\n\n5. Fringe groups, The bible is not considered the absolute word of God OR there is additional sacred text (so I am not sure if Mormon should be classified in this group, otherwise it should be in 4), such groups may hold to the Bible  in part to various degrees.  Not all such groups are cults.  Some examples are Jehova's witness (though I do not know this may be grouped in 4), Mormon (maybe), Unitarian-Universalists, 7th day adventists, upperroom tablernacle (again this could be in 4, I am not sure)\n\nAny christian group should be able to be classified in one of these 5 groups.  This is only a general classification of denominations.\n\nThere is also a way to classify Christians acording to particular doctrins but I have not done work in that area.
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If you are just looking for some straight facts about different denominations and what they believe there is a great book called "Handbook Of Denominations" by Mead. It will give you lots of great info.