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What’s Wrong with Seventh Day Adventism? Seventh
Day Adventism or SDA, is definitely a false religion. More specifically, it is a pseudo-christian cult. The religion and its followers revolve around
the, “spirit of prophecy” present in a lady in the 19th century
named Ellen G. White. This woman has,
with the inspiration of the Devil no doubt, produced scores of statements
and doctrines contrary to the Holy Scriptures. Among
the most popular, “push” in this cult is for others to realize that all must
keep the Sabbath (Saturday) holy or as the Lord’s Day. It tries to force people under a legal system
that ended with the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the New Testament, one can clearly see that the early disciples
met on a Sunday to show forth and celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection.
So they held regular weekly, church meetings primarily on Sundays. The Jewish Law called for Jews to observe Saturday
as its Sabbath. Technically, there
is no mention of a Sabbath for the Christian although, it goes without saying
that we must keep all days holy but especially the day in which we collectively
worship God as a church body. In that sense of course we ought to keep that
day holy unto the Lord. However, again there is no law that says we cannot
do such and such physical activity on the Lord’s Day as the Jews were strictly
and quite meticulously taught not to on their Sabbath Day observance. Worse
and perhaps lesser known to many is the terribly blasphemous doctrines, Ellen
G. White has taught to her followers. She
has told her followers and critics not to dare to question her teachings as
she wrote in a letter Letter H-339, dated, December 26, 1904: "Sister Hall has just read
me your letter to her. I am glad that you are having success in selling my
books; for thus you are giving to the world the light that God has given me.
These books contain clear, straight, unalterable truth and they should
certainly be appreciated. The instruction they contain is not of human
production". The
Seventh Day Adventists actually believe that Ellen G. White is a prophet like
Samuel and Jeremiah and that her revelations are superior to those taught
in New Testament Scripture! In
The Ellen G. White's Writings, p. 15, her grandson, Arthur White said the
following: "Seventh-day Adventists are uniquely fortunate in approaching the
question of inspiration of the prophets. We are not left to find our way,
drawing our conclusions from writings of two thousand years and more ago, that
have come down to us through varied transcriptions and translations. With us it
is an almost contemporary matter, for we have had a prophet in our midst. It is
generally granted by the careful student of her works that the experience of
Ellen G. White was no different from that of the prophets of old. What is more,
rather than having in our possession only relatively few chapters or a handful
of letters as is the case of the extant records of the Bible prophets, we have
the full range of Ellen G. White's writings, penned through a period of 70
years. She wrote in the English language, so we are not confronted with the
problems of translation..." There
should be no doubt after reading these false doctrines and false prophecies
as to the fact that she was indeed a false prophetess
who founded a false religion followed by SDA’s adherents to this day.
These are some of them: "...instead
of coming to the earth at the termination of the 2300 days in 1844, Christ
then entered the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary to perform the
closing work of atonement preparatory to His coming". The Great Controversy,
p. 422 "As the priest, in removing the sins from the sanctuary, confessed them
upon the head of the scapegoat, so Christ will place all these sins upon Satan,
the originator and instigator of sin". The Great Controversy, p. 485 "Their sins are transferred to the originator of sin". Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 475 "At
the time appointed for the judgment - the close of the 2300 days in 1844 -
began the work of investigation and blotting out of sins". Christ In
His Sanctuary, p. 122 "When the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord,
then the sins of the repentant soul who has received the grace of Christ and
has overcome through the blood of the Lamb, will be removed from the records of
heaven, and will be placed upon Satan, the scapegoat, the originator of sin,
and be remembered no more against him forever". Selected Messages, bk. 3,
pp. 355-356 "Moses passed through death, but Michael came down and gave him life
before his body had seen corruption. Satan tried to hold the body, claiming it
as his; but Michael resurrected Moses and took him to heaven. Satan railed
bitterly against God...but Christ did not rebuke His adversary,...He meekly
referred him to His Father, saying, "The Lord rebuke thee" Early
Writings, p. 164 "In a view given June 27, 1850, my accompanying angel said, "Time
is almost finished....Said the angel, "Get ready, get ready, get ready..."
I saw that there was a great work to do for them and but Iittle time in which
to do it....Then I saw that the seven last plagues were soon to be poured
out upon those who have no shelter..." Early Writings, p. 64 |