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I am privileged to be able to offer an alternative insight into the complicated world of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) theology. I will rely heavily on the Bible, but will also consider history and use logic in exposing deficiencies in SDA teachings. I would ask anyone who is considering becoming a SDA or if you are already in the SDA church, but are searching for the truth, to please allow me to offer a different explanation for the claims of the SDA. Remember : "The truth will set you free" (John 8:32). I can answer your questions pertaining to the beliefs and history of the SDA. I am not able to answer questions concerning spirituality or church discipline.

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I have extensively studied the theology of the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) for a number of years. I have many books and tape sets produced by experts in this field of study. I have debated current members of the SDA church. I have a great desire to help these people see the truth.

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M.S. degree in Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics

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Seventh-Day Adventists - Piggyback on "Why is the Sabbath Bondage"

Expert: Sal - 11/1/2009

Question
If the Sabbath is bondage, and the entire Ten Commandment Law for that matter, then why is it that the "love of God [is] that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."?

We're also told that "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD"

Sal, do you believe God made the Sabbath to be bondage? Could it be that man in our selfish and imperfect nature made it a bondage it was never intended to be?

Answer
Hello Eddie:

I hope all is well with you. It's nice to hear from you again.

Your quote of 1 John:5:3 refers to the New Covenant commands of God not the Sabbath command which is Old Covenant. For John, a New Covenant Christian, God's commandments are summed up is the central commandment of His Son, ie to love one another unselfishly. Earlier in the same letter John tells us what these commands are: 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 23And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.---3:22-24.

You say, "We're also told that..." and then you quote Isaiah 58:13-14. We were not told that, the Israelites were. Isaiah was speaking to the Israelites not to the Christian Church. What he said to Israelites in the Old Covenant does not apply to what Christians must do in a totally different covenant.

God Bless You,
Sal

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