AboutSal Expertise 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.
Experience 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.
Education/Credentials M.S. degree in Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics
Question Surely throughout your supposed indepth study of the SDA doctrine you would have stumbled upon some truth which has probably enlightened you in certain areas of the Bible. how can you be so very sure that anyone who is apart of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is snared in some kind of trap? how do you know whether or not the denomination which you follow is God's real church? if you you follow a protestant denomination then surely you will know that Saturday is the true Sabbath and that Sunday has only become a day of rest through roman catholic rule? being an expert you would know that Sunday is the 1st day of the week and Saturday is the 7th, it does say that God rested on the seventhday and made it holy. has God given man the authority to change the day hallowed by himself? or was it 'experts' who claim to know what God is thinking and that God no longer cares which day we rest and devote to him? it does say in Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not. (KJV)
enlighten me with your 'expertise'
Answer Dear Ray:
Let me assure you that I have found much good and correct doctrines in the SDA Church. However, mixed in with these are false doctrines such as Sabbath keeping being the Seal of God, Ellen G. White (EGW) as a true prophet, and the Investigative Judgment (IJ). I can be sure that SDAs are ensnared in a web of false doctrines because their views of the Sabbath and the IJ are unbiblical. Also their belief in EGW has been disproven by history.
I completely agree that the 7th day is the Sabbath. I do not hold, as some do, that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath. Sunday was not meant to be a day of rest, but a day of praise, worship, and fellowship.
I completely agree that God never changes (Mal. 3:6, cf. Heb. 13:8). However, exactly what does that mean? It cannot mean that if God says something that it must always remain. A simple reading of Scripture disproves that quite easily. For example, God has changed His Laws concerning the Passover, circumcision, and sacrifices. Indeed God has changed the entire Law Covenant of Sinai and replaced it with the New Covenant (Hebrews 8:6-13). God even inspired Paul to write that God does change His Law. “For when there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law” (Heb. 7:12). So clearly God never changes cannot mean that His Law never changes. Note carefully that Mal. 3:6 doesn’t say God never changes His Law, but that God Himself never changes. In other words, God is and will always be just, trustworthy, all-knowing, etc. that is what God never changing means.
