10 Things You Should Know about Seventh Day Adventists

10 Things You Should Know About Seventh Day Adventists

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A lot of people aren't very familiar with the beliefs of Seventh Day Adventists. It's a sect that's pretty similar to what you'd find in conservative Christianity -- They believe in Creationism, oppose gay rights, etc.

But what makes them unique?

-- Jesus is coming back very soon. Like not in our lifetime soon... but like now soon. The word they use is "imminent." And only people who rest on Saturday will be saved.

-- Saturday is their holy day. Most Christians reserve Sunday as their holy day. But SDA's are insistent that it's Saturday. Screw those heretics who disagree!

Remember how God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh? Obviously that was on Saturday.

-- They don't believe that you're going to Heaven when you die. The only way anyone's going to Heaven is when Jesus returns for the Second Coming.

What if you die before that happens? Then you just have to sit there unconscious in your grave until the day comes. Which I hear will be very soon.

-- Bad people don't go to Hell. No, it's much worse.

They're just going to be permanently destroyed. Because God grants us eternal life... so if you don't accept God, you don't get the joy of burning in Hell forever.

When Jesus comes back -- which is soon -- God's gonna commit the biggest act of genocide you've ever seen.

Which also means they don't believe in Hell. Because no one could end up there.

-- God's going to determine your faith through a process called Investigative Judgment. Basically, until the time when Jesus comes back -- which is happening any moment now -- God's investigating your life to figure out your fate.

It's not enough that you believe in him. You also have to live a life in accordance with his rules. He's always judging you...

-- They're health nuts. Which isn't exactly a bad thing.

They abstain from alcohol and tobacco... and coffee and soda... and unclean meat like pork.

Because those things defile your soul. Not bad ideas... but the reasoning is horrible.

-- Their prophet was a woman. Ellen G. White. So that's different. And kind of cool in a way.

But that's the only way she's different. She saw visions in 1844 and the religion sprang from there. Those visions came after she suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child and was in a long coma which many people believe led to epileptic seizures.

But I'm sure that had nothing to do with it.

-- They think the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon and the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

They think less of the Catholic Church than most atheists do!

-- They think masturbation is really horrible. Like, really horrible. Like John Harvey Kellogg was an Adventist who created Corn Flakes because he hoped eating them would prevent kids from touching themselves.

-- Dr. Ben Carson, one of the Republicans running for President, is a Seventh Day Adventist.

So he believes all this stuff.

I have to say, though, given the other things I've heard him say so far, these are probably some of the more sensible beliefs he has.

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[arozeisarozie]

I’d like to give a shoutout to the SDA’s in the comment section who, for the most part, are noticeably making an effort to remain nonjudgemental and cordial. This speaks volumes to me and while I may not believe in what you believe, I can tell that there is something good in there for y’all. Peace! ✌️

[SISKENNIE]

Seventh-day Adventist do not believe that only Sabbath keepers will be saved! LIE

[Godsmasterpiece]

When I was in primary school and learned about the days of the week... we learned that Sunday is the first day of the week. It's not just an SDA thing. My family goes to church on Sunday... but I always believed that Saturday is the seventh day of the week.

[IKeCaribou]

If that is what you choose to believe, then so be it. I’m a happy content Seventh Day Adventist. 😊😊

[iamravyn]

Who said we believe only people who rest on Sabbath will go to heaven.

[jocoolshow]

I'm gonna address all your points. This isn't anything anger related, just clarification as you failed to explain alot. Imma try and keep this simple, so i'll use vague words like good or bad just for simplicity. BTW, I'm not perfect, and I don't have all the answers. I'm just a normal teenager that has his own issues too lol.

.1.) We worship on Saturday's because the 10 Commandments literally say (Exodus 20:9-11) "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.


9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:


10 But the seventh day is the sabbath
of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:


11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

2.) It is true Jesus is coming back, but nobody knows exactly when He's coming back. The point is to be ready before He comes. By be ready, I basically mean live a good life, be a good person, let others know, etc. But the key is actually to *want* to be a good person and such, no to do good just because you want to go to heaven or fear of no going. Where did you hear that only people who rest on Saturday's would be saved? Being saved depends on your knowledge and your heart. No one can be denied their right to go to heaven based solely on ignorance. For example, if you lived a good life, but didn't know anything about God or Christianity and was never given a chance to be exposed to the truth, you can't not go to heaven because of that. Now, if you know and hear the truth and you still refuse to believe it, then that's a different story as it's your own fault for not accepting.

3.) Nobody just goes straight to heaven when they die. When people die, we stay in our graves or whatever state we were when we died, be it cremated, buried, atomized etc. When Jesus comes back, everyone that died, good or bad, will be resurrected. Then a few events will unfold and Jesus will bring the "good" people to heaven and the bad will remain on Earth until the Earth is destroyed. The reason they stay is because God isn;t trying to destroy the people, but He's trying to eliminate sin. If people hold on to that Sin, then they'll obviously be destroyed along with it. But before this happens, everyone that was "bad" will accept that they were wrong during the Judgement, so no one is unjustly destroyed not knowing what sins they held on to.

4.) Hell isn't a place that exists at the moment. Hell is basically the Earth while it's in the process of being destroyed. Hell isn't a place where people burn for all eternity like many people think. "You do the crime, you do the time". That's kinda like how hell works. Each person is punished according to the severity and degree of the sins they've committed. After their time is up, they will die. No such thing as eternal torture or anything like that. Now, the person that will be punished the longest is Satan himself as he's been doing "bad" since before the creation of humanity. Hell isn't someplace "down below" that bad people go when they die. It hasn't been made yet. It's kinda funny as it makes Hell on Earth an ironic phrase.

5.) Yes this is correct. You say this in a negative way. Say some serial killer accepts God and believes in Jesus, but doesn't change their life in any way and keeps on killing. They accept God, worship Him, pray etc, but continue murdering. Does it seem fair that this person goes to Heaven? On the flip side, let's say a firefighter or something who never got exposed to anything related to God, but lived a good life, was a respectful person, helped people in need, etc died on duty saving someone from a fire. Is it fair that they not go to Heaven even though they never believed in God? No. This is just an example of the purpose of the Investigative Judgement. God is fair. In those situations, the serial killer wouldn't be allowed to go to heaven, but the firefighter would.

6.) Well, while we are supposed to care about health, not all Seventh Day Adventists have the same beliefs on health. I can't speak on this subject myself, but I'll just say my parents were Vegan before I was born. Neither of them were even religious when they became Vegan, they just did it for health. Health is not a concrete belief for SDA's. Not much I can say here.

7.) Yea we believe in a prophet Ellen G White.

8.) About the Catholic Church yea. About Atheists, idk where you got that from. But explaining this involves a sort of long explanation. Just gonna say this, when you hear something about the Pope issuing a National Sunday Law, just remember we called it

9.) I've honestly *NEVER* heard this before lol. I literally can't say anything about this.

10.) Yea he is.

Anyways, hope this cleared some things up. Good day to you Hemant Mehta, and anyone else reading this. Peace out fam

[davidmartin]

Their Sabbath is Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, rather than all Saturday.

[akivaallen]

yeah so, i'm a 15 yrs old Seventh-Day Adventist and i just want to clear some things up. So first of all we believe in HELL, that's one place we SDA's try not to end up when Jesus comes again, no one knows the exact time Jesus is coming back but if you read Jude and Revelation in the Holy Bible, its says that when the time of Jesus arrival is near peoples heart are going to get desperately wicked( its happening right now as i speak) there are going to be famine and disasters like you have never seen before, and that's just the beginning, there are a lot of signs in the bible about Christ return. We are not health nuts, some of us eats chicken, some types of fish, goat, cow, sheep, some types of birds, any other meat we don't eat well i don't eat because God said we should not eat it (Leviticus 11) read all of that and you shall understand. Not all seventh-day Adventist will go to heaven some or going start to hell, in the bible its says that "not all who says lord, lord shall enter into heaven" you have to be faith and obedient, keeping ALL his commandments including the fourth one which happens to be Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.I cant explain every thing here or i'm going to be writing a book on YouTube, anyone who actually read this, just like and comment and i will give you my number or gmail account. And why we have these rules are all because its in the bible just read the bible and you see some great things.Oh and one more thing, i personally believe when you masturbate and sperm comes out ur basically killing ur child idk if there are other reasons but i just believe that.

[windaandries]

Sabbath day is for human not human for sabbath day

[MrDzoni]

And I thought my knowledge on Adventists was poor. Dude, you did zero research on the topic.

[horus]

sounds good to me. Thanks dude your convinced me to become a seventh day adventist

[comedianuchenwaba]

I have joined SDA some weeks ago, and I loved everything they do

[elsieacheampong]

I’m a proud Adventist and I can tell u most of the things ure saying are incorrect, especially us not believing in Hell. And our sabbath starts Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Ure uninformed sir!

[luisG]

Only the people that rest on Saturday will be saved? Don't know where you got that info from...

[JoeDirtisawsome]

So they believe that God will destroy your soul if your bad? That's a lot more merciful than making us burn for eternity.

[col.cottonhill]

After going to many churches. And exposed to different tastes of the interpretation of the scripture.

I think the 7th day adventists make alot of sense. I agree with them on nearly everything. Laugh at us if you want.

[robem]

I was born into the Catholic religon as a child (not by choice), and decided to follow the SDA as an adult and this guy needed to do more research on the not expecting much positive info from a "friendly atheists". My experience with SDA is there are some extremists members who do push their beliefs harder than others but that's on the member not on the we oppose the LGBT? No Jesus loved everyone as do we, did Jesus throw stones at the hookers or thief's he came across? NO and neither do we! Do we keep Saturday Holy and worship on it yes we do, you can find videos of catholic priests who agree that the original sabbath day is a Saturday, Do we believe God is coming again? Yes we do ;but again some members will go to the extreme and say he is coming tomorrow but no one knows when that is so we live our lives as Jesus and the Bible tells us to and we wait. Will only SDA members be saved? No we believe others will be saved that have fait no matter what the religon is, Christian, Catholic, Jew all who accept Jesus Christs as their savior will be saved, even the criminals who repent and ask for forgiveness and yes even the non believers can have a change of heart. Are SDA members health freaks? I mean my doctors and even dietitians recommend the same diet some of our church members follow but hey that's on the people who want to live a longer healthier life and avoid diabetes, high blood pressure, and not be over weight but pfft "health freaks" right lol.

[rachaelday]

A "SDA" church lives directly in my backyard basically, they have been inviting me to church for over 15 years- I had a hard night and started reading their gospel, after all these years I think I'm going to church next Saturday 😥

[michaelgeorge]

your information is twisted, get your facts straight.

[LocoMenteClaraOne]

SDA here...

This dude's got many things WRONG about us. God bless his heart. lol