Seventh-day Adventist

The Adventist church (Seventh-day Adventist Church) or "SDA" church was started in early 1800's during a reform movement of people from several Protestant churches. We became a formal church about 1865. The Adventist church has no official creed, but instead has a group of basic beliefs which can be changed or added to (at official church meetings) based on new light. Some of those basic beliefs are: we hold the Holy Bible as the word of God as expressed through the writings of His messengers. Our goal is to tell the Good news of the Gospel of Christ to the world before he returns. The Judgement is now underway, and when complete Christ will return. Before the wicked are cast into the fire they will be shown their lives and why they cannot enter the holy city.

"Adventist" refers to the second "advent" of Christ, the soon coming return of Christ A literal visible return and taking of the saints to heaven, including the resurrection of the righteous dead at that time and their joining with the saints and Christ in heaven. The wicked will die at his coming and they will not rise again until the end of the 1000 years when "Hell and Death will be cast into the lake of fire to be consumed." Sin and sinners will never again return they will be like "ashes under our feet" .

"Seventh-day" refers to keeping the Sabbath Holy, "Saturday - is the seventh day" as kept by Jesus and his disciples and still kept by other Sabbath keepers today, including, among others, Seventh Day Baptists, Church of God Seventh Day, and practicing Jews. We were introduced to the seventh-day Sabbath by a Seventh Day Baptist, Rachel Oakes. In many ways our faith is similar to that of Baptists and Methodists. Our early leaders were mainly Methodist. New light about the soon coming of Christ (thought to be in 1844) and in believers cleansing our lives from all sin brought reforms in clean living, healthful dress and diet as well as a renewed importance in keeping all the 10 Commandments, as given by God from the mount. A strong reform regarding Righteousness by Faith started in 1888, was renewed in 1988, and still continues today.

While some individual members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church may practice things that are not accepted officially by the church, the church as a whole does not approve of public nudity or things akin to it, like body painting. In a somewhat related issue, makeup is generally frowned upon to varying degrees, but where it is somewhat accepted (e.g. parts of the US), natural-looking makeup is preferred. Many Adventists, at least in the US, would probably consider face painting at public fairs or for Halloween to be a harmless diversion, however.

I think they do, but they believe it is produced by Satan who uses our sight and makes us relate the images with UFO beliefs. It is also supported by saying that most people who see this are in new age's field or something related to it.

If a Christian trusts in God, he/she will see it and will know it is the sinful actions of the devil.

No, Robert H. Schuller is an ordained minister of the Reformed Church in America.

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The world headquarters of the Seventh Day Adventist Church has been located in Silver Spring, Maryland since 1989. The headquarters building is known as the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist.

What an absurd and misinformed question!! Please get your facts strait before asking such a question.

The short answer: No. Adventists believe in the birth of Christ, and most celebrate that event on December 25. Many Adventists (perhaps even most) send Christmas cards to each other.

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That depends on the attitude of the sender and the recipient. If the card was sent out of kindness and caring, and received with the understanding that the sender means well, it certainly wouldn't be an insult. It could, however be misunderstood, so its better to send a greeting for the holiday season.

If your concern is over whether or not SDAs celebrate Christmas, don't worry; I'm not sure where the idea to the contrary came from, and perhaps there are some groups that don't celebrate Christmas (I'd imagine this would be based on the over-commercialization of the holiday.) However, Adventists do indeed believe in the birth of Jesus Christ as accounted in the Gospels.

To create a favorable image of the church, it's mission, life, witness and related activities by using the most effective means of communication.

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Yes. Seventh-day Adventist claim to use the tithing system established in the book of Leviticus as a template. In Bible times, the tithes the Israelites paid were placed in a storehouse and then distributed to each Levite and the workers according to his need (Nehemiah 13:12:13). The Seventh-day Adventist church aims to emulate this by having all tithes paid to a conference instead of the local church, and then having those monies paid out in salary fashion to all pastors.

There is no doctrine or even generally accepted practice in the Seventh-day Adventist Church regarding waiting a certain number of days before burying the dead. If practical considerations require it, a wait of seven days might occur, but generally, they are buried much sooner, usually within a few days.

Church services are usually held on Saturday (referred to by Adventists as "Sabbath"), generally in the morning. Typically, Adventist churches have what is known as Sabbath School starting at 9 or 9:30 AM, with the church service itself starting around 10:45 or 11 and ending at around noon. This is often followed at least once a month (in some cases, every week) by a potluck lunch.

The records show the Whites moving to Australia and not exiled to Australia. Later on they returned to the United States.

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YES! much better because the education is much higher than what effort is put in public schools.

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No fed or state law prohibits - or can prohibit - workplace prayer. Employment laws prohibit conduct by EMPLOYERS.

As long as prayer does not consume significant amounts of paid work time, and is not imposed upon the patient by the employee, it is not harm.

Yes, there is one SD Adventist high school in Cairo (called Nile Union Academy), see at http://www.adventistmission.org/article.php?id=121 . "Union" is a level of teritorial Church organization, and Academy is used to mean a high school (private) in Adventist circles.

Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9%, (2001 census) See the related link for further information.

Yes. In the 1970's a case on equal pay for equal work, don't even remember the name of the lady right now, but it was historic, and changed the pay scales in the church. She had been a writer and editor for several major Church publications for many years.

well of course you can but you probably should not, since it breaks the Sabbath