ADVENTIST
BRIEF HISTORY:
Seventh Day Adventism originated in the movement of William Miller who set the time for the end of the world to be 1843. They now claim to be carrying on the work begun by Miller. Miller was a farmer who lived in Low Hampton, New York. When he was a Baptist (1831), he won 50,000 people to his views regarding the coming of Christ in 1843.
When this prophecy failed, he declared he had miscalculated and he then set the time at 1844 which also passed without incident. When he re-set it at 1845, some of his followers divided, and out of those fragments came Seventh Day Adventism. Adding some new doctrines (principally Sabbath keeping – Miller had observed Sunday as the Christian day of assembly), James White and his wife, Ellen G. White, became the leaders of the Sabbath branch of Adventism. She wrote: “I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should be altered; that the figures were as he wanted them; that his hand (was over and hid the mistake in some of the figures” (Early Writings, p. 64). “I saw that God was in the proclamation of the time of 1843” (Spiritual Gift, Vol. I, p. 133). Mr. White also endorsed the Miller movement of Adventism (Life of Miller, p. 6). Mrs. White further wrote: “As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message (Miller’s work), they rejected the light of heaven and fell from the favor of God” (Early Writings, p. 101, quoted in Seventh Day Adventism Renounced by D.M. Canright, p.68-69).
None of those who were later the leaders of Seventh Day Adventism such as White, Andrews, Bates and Rhodes were of any note in Miller’s movement, though they were all in it. Yet afterwards, they claimed to be the only ones who had the right view of it, and all the rest were “in the dark,” “foolish virgins,” “apostates,” etc. (Canright, p. 78-79). The word of Mrs. White came to be regarded as the voice of God. She claimed to have had visions emphasizing the importance of Sabbath observance, and Adventists regard her as a prophetess and her writings as inspired (See The Visions of Mrs. E. G. White, 144 pages. In this her inspiration is defended). Her writings are called Testimonies. “It is God and not an erring mortal, that has spoken” (Testimonies, Vol. III, p. 247. Those who opposed her are “not fighting against us, but against God,” p. 260). Her last book is The Great Controversy.
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• “Law of God” and “Law of Moses”. These are two different laws.
Animal sacrifices and other ceremonies such as incense were in law of Moses and these only were taken away. God gave the Ten Commandments, and Moses gave ceremonies such as incense, etc..
• One and the same law. Ezra 7:6, 12.
• Used interchangeably in Nehemiah 8:1, 8; Luke 2:22-23
• God gave the Law of Moses. Ezra 7:6
• Moses gave the law of God. 2 Chronicles 34:14.
• Animal sacrifice was in the law of God. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Luke 2:24
• The law was changed. Hebrews 7:12
• Christ removed the first that he might establish the second. Hebrews 10:9-10.
• “Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother,” the fifth of the Ten Commandments. Mark 7:10. Jesus said Moses gave it.
• Killing forbidden in the Ten Commandments, which Moses gave. John 17:19.
• The Ceremonial Law only was nailed to the cross; The Ten Commandments were not part of the Ceremonial Law, hence not removed. The Ceremonial Law was the Book; the Moral law was on stone.
Synopsis of Present Truth p. 255
• Only one law in Old Testament. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Nehemiah 8:2,3,8,14,18; Psalms 19:7; Malachi 4:4.
• The “Book of the Law” contained all five books of the Pentateuch. 1 Corinthians 14:34 refers to Genesis 3:16; Joshua 8:31 quotes Exodus 20:25; Ezra quotes Numbers 3:6; Matthew 22:36-40 quotes Leviticus 19:18.
• The “Book of the Law” by the ark quotes the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-22
• Law of Lord contained both moral and ceremonial. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Matthew 22:36-40; Leviticus 19:1-37
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• Moral things have to do with man’s relationship to man and are right within themselves; ceremonial laws or religious laws are made right only by divine commandments and deal with man’s relationship with God. Mark 2:27
• The Commandments done away. 2 Corinthians 3:7-11
• Ten Commandments called covenant. Exodus 34:27-28; Deuteronomy 4:12; 13; 1 Kings 8:9, 18; 2 Chronicles 5:10; 6:11.
• Covenant of the Decalogue abolished. Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zechariah 11:10-14; Hebrews 8:6-13; Hebrews 9:15-17.
• Decalogue done away (consists of laws, statutes, commandments). Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17
• The whole Law done away at the cross. Acts 15:1-11; Romans 6:14; 7:1-7; Galatians 3:23-25; 4:1-8; Hebrews 7:11-12
• The Sabbath is part of the Moral Law hence permanent
• Four of the 10 Commandments are “ceremonial” or “religious” in that they deal with relationship to God; six of the 10 are “moral” in that they deal with man’s relationship with man. Sabbath law is not social, buy religious.
• Done away as part of Decalogue. 2 Corinthians 3:7-11.
• Blotted out. Colossians 2:14-17; Hosea 2:11. Associated with meats, drinks, feast days.
• Sabbath a shadow, supplanted by the
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• substance. Hebrews 4:1-11; 10:1; Galatians 4:10, 11,
• Apostles never taught Sabbath keeping, but did teach meeting on first day of the week. Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
• No meeting of Christians after the death of Christ was recorded as having been on a Sabbath day.
• Paul’s preaching was often to Jews on Sabbath in Synagogue in Acts. He preached, as did Christ, every day and every place.
• All days of equal importance now. Romans 14:5.
• The Sabbath was commanded to Israel. Deuteronomy 5:15; Exodus 31-13-17.
• The Sabbath was a sign between God and Israel (See reference above)
• The spirit in man is only his breath, which passes out of existence at death and is annihilated.
• God is Spirit. John 4:24.
• We are God’s offspring. Acts 17:28-29
• God is totally immortal. 1 Timothy 6:16.
• God is Father of Spirits. Hebrews 12:9.
• Man is made of body and spirit; both mortal and immortal. Ecclesiastes 12:7; Acts 7:59; Luke 23:46.
• Departed spirits still exist and are conscious. Matthew 17:3 – Moses and Elijah; 1 Samuel 22 – Saul’s spirit was brought forth and spoke; Matthew 22:32 – Abraham living; Jehovah is God of living; Revelation 6:9-11 – Souls of the dead seen to be alive.
• Ellen G. White’s Testimonials are inspired like the Bible (See Testimonies, Vol III, p. 257).
• 2 Peter 1:3 “All things” pertaining to life and godliness given in the first century.
• Hebrews 1:1-2; God spoke thought His Son, not through Ellen G. White, in these last days.
• Jude 3: The faith once for all delivered.
• 2 Timothy 3:16-17: “Thoroughly furnished” by Scriptures.
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• Mrs. White made false prophecies: Impossible for slavery to be done away. Testimonials, Jan. 4, 1862, p. 256, 266.
• If the prophecy come not to pass, it came not from God, do not hear him! Jeremiah 14:14ff.
• Teach lies, the TAIL. Isaiah 9:15.
• The Sabbath was kept by God, and that it has been kept by man from the creation
• Sabbath was “made known” to Moses. Nehemiah 9:14.
• Duties of Sabbath: No fire-Exodus 35:3;
No baking or boiling – Exodus 16:23;
No travel – Exodus 16:29;
Offer sacrifice – Numbers 28:9-10;
No work – Exodus 20:9-10
• No record of any man keeping the Sabbath or knowing of it until Moses’ time. It commemorated deliverance from Egypt. Deuteronomy 5:15; 1 Kings 9:9-21
• Not given to the fathers. Deuteronomy 5:1-14.
• Catholics changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
• The Sabbath is still the Sabbath! No one changed it.
• The Law was changed by Christ before the Roman Catholic Church ever existed. Hebrews 7:12.
• Christians were taught not to keep the Sabbath. Colossians 2:16.
• Christ changed the day of worship, Hebrews 10:9-10, at the “time of reformation.”
• Observance of Lord’s Supper at regular intervals is unimportant.
• Early Christians observed weekly on first day of week. Acts 20:7; 2:42.
BRIEF HISTORY:
Seventh Day Adventism originated in the movement of William Miller who set the time for the end of the world to be 1843. They now claim to be carrying on the work begun by Miller. Miller was a farmer who lived in Low Hampton, New York. When he was a Baptist (1831), he won 50,000 people to his views regarding the coming of Christ in 1843.
When this prophecy failed, he declared he had miscalculated and he then set the time at 1844 which also passed without incident. When he re-set it at 1845, some of his followers divided, and out of those fragments came Seventh Day Adventism. Adding some new doctrines (principally Sabbath keeping – Miller had observed Sunday as the Christian day of assembly), James White and his wife, Ellen G. White, became the leaders of the Sabbath branch of Adventism. She wrote: “I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should be altered; that the figures were as he wanted them; that his hand (was over and hid the mistake in some of the figures” (Early Writings, p. 64). “I saw that God was in the proclamation of the time of 1843” (Spiritual Gift, Vol. I, p. 133). Mr. White also endorsed the Miller movement of Adventism (Life of Miller, p. 6). Mrs. White further wrote: “As the churches refused to receive the first angel’s message (Miller’s work), they rejected the light of heaven and fell from the favor of God” (Early Writings, p. 101, quoted in Seventh Day Adventism Renounced by D.M. Canright, p.68-69).
None of those who were later the leaders of Seventh Day Adventism such as White, Andrews, Bates and Rhodes were of any note in Miller’s movement, though they were all in it. Yet afterwards, they claimed to be the only ones who had the right view of it, and all the rest were “in the dark,” “foolish virgins,” “apostates,” etc. (Canright, p. 78-79). The word of Mrs. White came to be regarded as the voice of God. She claimed to have had visions emphasizing the importance of Sabbath observance, and Adventists regard her as a prophetess and her writings as inspired (See The Visions of Mrs. E. G. White, 144 pages. In this her inspiration is defended). Her writings are called Testimonies. “It is God and not an erring mortal, that has spoken” (Testimonies, Vol. III, p. 247. Those who opposed her are “not fighting against us, but against God,” p. 260). Her last book is The Great Controversy.
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• “Law of God” and “Law of Moses”. These are two different laws.
Animal sacrifices and other ceremonies such as incense were in law of Moses and these only were taken away. God gave the Ten Commandments, and Moses gave ceremonies such as incense, etc..
• One and the same law. Ezra 7:6, 12.
• Used interchangeably in Nehemiah 8:1, 8; Luke 2:22-23
• God gave the Law of Moses. Ezra 7:6
• Moses gave the law of God. 2 Chronicles 34:14.
• Animal sacrifice was in the law of God. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Luke 2:24
• The law was changed. Hebrews 7:12
• Christ removed the first that he might establish the second. Hebrews 10:9-10.
• “Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother,” the fifth of the Ten Commandments. Mark 7:10. Jesus said Moses gave it.
• Killing forbidden in the Ten Commandments, which Moses gave. John 17:19.
• The Ceremonial Law only was nailed to the cross; The Ten Commandments were not part of the Ceremonial Law, hence not removed. The Ceremonial Law was the Book; the Moral law was on stone.
Synopsis of Present Truth p. 255
• Only one law in Old Testament. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Nehemiah 8:2,3,8,14,18; Psalms 19:7; Malachi 4:4.
• The “Book of the Law” contained all five books of the Pentateuch. 1 Corinthians 14:34 refers to Genesis 3:16; Joshua 8:31 quotes Exodus 20:25; Ezra quotes Numbers 3:6; Matthew 22:36-40 quotes Leviticus 19:18.
• The “Book of the Law” by the ark quotes the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-22
• Law of Lord contained both moral and ceremonial. 2 Chronicles 31:3; Matthew 22:36-40; Leviticus 19:1-37
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• Moral things have to do with man’s relationship to man and are right within themselves; ceremonial laws or religious laws are made right only by divine commandments and deal with man’s relationship with God. Mark 2:27
• The Commandments done away. 2 Corinthians 3:7-11
• Ten Commandments called covenant. Exodus 34:27-28; Deuteronomy 4:12; 13; 1 Kings 8:9, 18; 2 Chronicles 5:10; 6:11.
• Covenant of the Decalogue abolished. Jeremiah 31:31-34; Zechariah 11:10-14; Hebrews 8:6-13; Hebrews 9:15-17.
• Decalogue done away (consists of laws, statutes, commandments). Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17
• The whole Law done away at the cross. Acts 15:1-11; Romans 6:14; 7:1-7; Galatians 3:23-25; 4:1-8; Hebrews 7:11-12
• The Sabbath is part of the Moral Law hence permanent
• Four of the 10 Commandments are “ceremonial” or “religious” in that they deal with relationship to God; six of the 10 are “moral” in that they deal with man’s relationship with man. Sabbath law is not social, buy religious.
• Done away as part of Decalogue. 2 Corinthians 3:7-11.
• Blotted out. Colossians 2:14-17; Hosea 2:11. Associated with meats, drinks, feast days.
• Sabbath a shadow, supplanted by the
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• substance. Hebrews 4:1-11; 10:1; Galatians 4:10, 11,
• Apostles never taught Sabbath keeping, but did teach meeting on first day of the week. Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
• No meeting of Christians after the death of Christ was recorded as having been on a Sabbath day.
• Paul’s preaching was often to Jews on Sabbath in Synagogue in Acts. He preached, as did Christ, every day and every place.
• All days of equal importance now. Romans 14:5.
• The Sabbath was commanded to Israel. Deuteronomy 5:15; Exodus 31-13-17.
• The Sabbath was a sign between God and Israel (See reference above)
• The spirit in man is only his breath, which passes out of existence at death and is annihilated.
• God is Spirit. John 4:24.
• We are God’s offspring. Acts 17:28-29
• God is totally immortal. 1 Timothy 6:16.
• God is Father of Spirits. Hebrews 12:9.
• Man is made of body and spirit; both mortal and immortal. Ecclesiastes 12:7; Acts 7:59; Luke 23:46.
• Departed spirits still exist and are conscious. Matthew 17:3 – Moses and Elijah; 1 Samuel 22 – Saul’s spirit was brought forth and spoke; Matthew 22:32 – Abraham living; Jehovah is God of living; Revelation 6:9-11 – Souls of the dead seen to be alive.
• Ellen G. White’s Testimonials are inspired like the Bible (See Testimonies, Vol III, p. 257).
• 2 Peter 1:3 “All things” pertaining to life and godliness given in the first century.
• Hebrews 1:1-2; God spoke thought His Son, not through Ellen G. White, in these last days.
• Jude 3: The faith once for all delivered.
• 2 Timothy 3:16-17: “Thoroughly furnished” by Scriptures.
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Adventist Tradition
Word of God
• Mrs. White made false prophecies: Impossible for slavery to be done away. Testimonials, Jan. 4, 1862, p. 256, 266.
• If the prophecy come not to pass, it came not from God, do not hear him! Jeremiah 14:14ff.
• Teach lies, the TAIL. Isaiah 9:15.
• The Sabbath was kept by God, and that it has been kept by man from the creation
• Sabbath was “made known” to Moses. Nehemiah 9:14.
• Duties of Sabbath: No fire-Exodus 35:3;
No baking or boiling – Exodus 16:23;
No travel – Exodus 16:29;
Offer sacrifice – Numbers 28:9-10;
No work – Exodus 20:9-10
• No record of any man keeping the Sabbath or knowing of it until Moses’ time. It commemorated deliverance from Egypt. Deuteronomy 5:15; 1 Kings 9:9-21
• Not given to the fathers. Deuteronomy 5:1-14.
• Catholics changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.
• The Sabbath is still the Sabbath! No one changed it.
• The Law was changed by Christ before the Roman Catholic Church ever existed. Hebrews 7:12.
• Christians were taught not to keep the Sabbath. Colossians 2:16.
• Christ changed the day of worship, Hebrews 10:9-10, at the “time of reformation.”
• Observance of Lord’s Supper at regular intervals is unimportant.
• Early Christians observed weekly on first day of week. Acts 20:7; 2:42.