![]() Excited, I naively asked my mother if I could go. Once, on a rainy day, my neighborhood non-Adventists (but Christian) friends invited me to go bowling with them. When I finally was old enough to ask a coherent question about our doctrines, I received no biblically backed answers that made sense without quoting Ellen White. Our SDA Bible teachers showed pictures of the pope and pointed out the “pagan-inspired, Devil’s horns of his mitre.” Using only denominationally published theology books, they warned of the dangers of stepping outside of the church. Adventists earnestly work and pray for the pitiful souls who have been deceived by Rome 4. Guess who the Adventist church claims will spearhead this coming barbarity against them? The Catholic Church. Then in a drunken madness this spiritual prostitute will track down, torture, and kill Adventists who do not succumb to her demands of worshipping on the false Sabbath. The disturbing and bizarre twist to their prophecy is that Christians who attend church on Sunday 3 will become the Whore of Babylon, seize national power, and enact laws that force all people to attend church on Sunday. Truly obedient Christians will become Seventh-day Adventists who attend church on the authentic Sabbath- Saturday. Those who fall prey to the antichrist’s strong delusion and receive the mark of the beast are those who worship on Sunday. God’s dramatic test between His false and true people pivots upon which day of the week you go to church. Ellen White’s messages, affectionately dubbed “The Spirit of Prophecy,” teach that very soon laws will be enacted that will force a great crisis between those who only profess to be Christians and genuine Christians. 6-12).įirst and foremost, they must warn the world that Christ’s Second Coming is imminent (which they have been broadcasting since 1844.) After that, the Sabbath issue dominates their doctrines. They are then given the task of proclaiming the three angels’ message (vs. According to her Revelation 14 prophecy, Adventists are the sole remnant of God and the 144,000. According to my childhood church, heaven opened up to her a crucial new addition to the Gospel-called the “Everlasting Gospel.” In fact, White calls it the most important message of all time 2. ![]() Some Adventist doctrines are based on the visions supposedly given by an angel to a 19th-century prophetess and one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist church, Ellen White. My parents would drink a hot, black liquid substance called Postum, which kids would tease was “bad to the last drop.” Any jewelry dangling from your ear or wrist or neck was scandalous, but if it could be pinned onto your blouse it was endorsed.Īdventism, to me, was not only confusingly hypocritical but scary. My mother would spend hours in the kitchen making a gray, gelatinous mass of whole-wheat gluten as fake beef. Adventists are well-known for their substitute meats. However, Adventists evidently believe God sanctioned imitations of evil. Drinking root beer was our family’s version of walking on the wild side (it contains no caffeine but it looks like Coke). A sampling of the list I’ll entitle, Adventist’s Iniquities, (any day of the week) included dancing, drinking, smoking, going to the theater, eating meat, drinking coffee or anything with caffeine in it, and wearing jewelry. On the Sabbath we couldn’t play with the neighbors, swim, go to the store or mall no television or radio. That experience symbolized my frustrations growing up in the SDA church.Īs a cradle Adventist, there were so many unexplainable taboos I had grown up with. To this day, I am baffled as to why the pastor refused the Boy Scout, unless it was the Adventist taboo of riding bikes on Sabbath. ![]() ![]() “Saturday is the Sabbath,” the pastor said with an enlightened smile and began a short homily explaining why the fourth 1 commandment kept us from helping him. Could you catch me up to my group?” Seeing this as a “teachable moment” my pastor responded to the young lad by gently putting his hand on the boy’s shoulder. In a weak, shaky voice he begged, “I lost my group. After crashing his bicycle, the boy had timidly approached our picnic table. In silent horror, I listened to my Seventh-day Adventist pastor’s mini-sermon as I watched blood trickle down the little Boy Scout’s leg. Resources for Non-Catholic Clergy and Ministers.Bible and the Catechism in a Year Reading Plan.Supporting Members of the Coming Home Network. ![]()
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