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SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTIST
DOCTRINE REFUTED
BY SINGLE SCRIPTURE!

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against


us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,

nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities

and powers,

he made a shew of them openly;

triumphing over them in it. Let no man

therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an


holyday,

or of the new moon,

or of the sabbath days;

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of


Christ."

(Colossians 2:14-17)

I've had the opportunity to explore the doctrines of Seventh-


Day Adventism through several personal relationships with
those who adhere to it and from visits to Seventh-Day
Adventist gatherings. Seventh-Day Adventists with whom
I've had contact have been invariably friendly and generous
people who obviously love the Lord but have wandered into
legalism in their zeal to serve him. Many Adventists are saved
and sealed saints who were later led astray by the movement
to observe the Sabbath and are like the believers to which
Paul wrote, "But now, after that ye have known God, or
rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak
and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in
bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and
years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you
labour in vain." (Gal. 4:9-11). Others are longtime
Adventists who, in their study of the Scriptures, are
confronted with the gospel of grace and believe it but
continue to observe the Sabbath. Then there are those
Adventists who still need to hear and believe the gospel (1
Cor. 15:1-4; Rom. 3:28).

Recently, I ran across a manuscript written by Kerry B.


Wynne, a former third generation Adventist, in association
with William H. Hohmann, a former Worldwide Church of
God (also Sabbatarean) member, "Sabbath Impossibilities:
History of Adventism's Long War Against Truth, etc." In their
compelling document, they present evidence for the fact that
Seventh-Day Adventist leaders knew at least 40 years before
1888 that weekly Sabbath-keeping was one of the "ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us," that has been
taken out of the way by Christ, who nailed it to his cross,
completely blotting it out. They were also aware that contrary
to their teaching, worship by Christians on a day other than
the Sabbath began hundreds of years earlier than the formal
establishment of the Roman Catholic Church, at whose door
they lay blame for changing "times and seasons".
Since that time, the authors insist, an ongoing effort has been
made by Adventist leaders to prevent their members from
learning this scriptural truth. Why? Money, for one thing.
Adventism is an international, multi-million dollar industry.
But can't they just give up the idea of Sabbath-keeping but
still hold to their other doctrines? All of their distinctive
doctrines regarding Bible prophecy and their central pillar
doctrine of "the investigative judgment" are based on visions
and messages reportedly received from the Lord by their
founding prophetess, Ellen G. White, in the mid-1800's. If the
legitimacy of her vision regarding the necessity for today's
church to observe the weekly Sabbath is shattered, the rest of
their peculiar doctrines will also fall like dominoes behind it!

It's been a source of wonder to me how the SDA church has


existed for so long despite the fact that it's been proven that
Mrs. White plagiarized much of the content of works she
published, which number well over 5,000 items. Also, the
number of failed prophecies which she made would certainly
qualify her, according to God's test for a false prophet in
Deuteronomy 18:20-22, as someone "deceiving and being
deceived." (2 Tim. 3:13). Adventists, when confronted with
these truths, will quickly insist that they don't consider White
to be a prophet but that by using the Holy Scriptures, she
pointed the church back to honoring the Lord by keeping his
commandments.

As in all cases of cultish doctrines being promulgated by


various "Christian" groups, the answer lies in their failure to
recognize which section of God's word is addressed
specifically to the body of Christ today. Under God's grace,
made known through his apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, we
enjoy the liberty that only adult sons undergirded with grace
doctrine have the authority to exercise. To return to Israel's
law covenants with God is to foolishly bind ourselves with
the cords of a performance system by which even Israel could
not win God's approval. When we realize that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the only person to ever win God's complete approval
and that by trusting in his shed blood, burial, and resurrection
we are imputed with his perfect righteousness that cannot be
improved upon by our own efforts, then we become truly free
to serve him as ambassadors of his grace.

Seventh-Day Adventists and others who seek to serve God by


keeping ordinances which have now been blotted out: you
will find complete rest from all your labors in the Person of
the Lord Jesus Christ, who has done it all for us.

Here's an interesting article refuting SDA's investigative


judgment doctrine with Scripture.

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