What does adventist mean?

Answer 1

Advent means waiting for some thing to happen. an adventist in religious terms means anyone who is waiting for Jesus to return according to scripture. John 14 v 1-3. Another answer:

The word "advent" refers to the coming of something or someone (as in "the advent of the personal computer"). An Adventist (in theology) is someone who believes in the soon return of Jesus Christ at the Second Coming. The connotation is often that he or she is also waiting for that event with anticipation, but the word itself only denotes the belief in it as a real future event. The largest Adventist denomination is the Seventh-day Adventist Church, often referred to as simply the "Adventist Church".

Answer 2

Adventists believe in the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, the Creation Week Sabbath, the same day God rested. Adventist means believing in Christ's second coming. Their name is a reflection of this.

Answer 3

"Adventist" is generally short for Seventh-Day Adventist, which is a protestant religion originating from the Millerite Movement in the 1800's. Like the name describes, they believe in the seventh-day sabbath as well as the second advent (second coming) of Jesus.

For Adventists, the sabbath starts at sunset on Friday and ends at sunset on Saturday. During the sabbath day, Adventists refrain from secular entertainment such as music and television, and they attend church Saturday morning.

Most Adventists are vegetarians, but some will eat chicken, turkey, and fish, because they are considered "clean beasts" in Leviticus 11.

The Seventh-Day Adventist church is also known for belief in a prophetess from the 1800's, named Ellen G. White. Her writings are studied and taught in the church today. Contrary to false accusations from anti-Adventists, all Adventists believe that the Bible, God's Word, is more important than the many books Ellen White wrote in her lifetime. They do believe her writings were inspired by God, but to a lesser extent than The Bible. Anything she has written must be backed up by Scripture before anyone believes it.