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Seventh Day Adventists

Background

Seventh Day Adventists can trace back their history to a Mr. William Miller. He was the one that predicted that Jesus would come back to earth on March 21, 1844, and later changed the date to October 22, 1844. When of course this did not happen, his followers broke up.

Ellen G. White, the actual founder of SDA, was very much influenced by Miller's writings. She claimed to see visions of angels and Jesus. She also believed that you must worship on a Saturday. And so Seventh Day Adventicism was mostly started with this idea. Now, there are over 7 millions SDA's world-wide.


Seventh Day Adventist Doctrine
These are taken from the CARM website from Seventh Day Adventists Doctrines Page.

 

Affirmations

  1. The Bible is inspired and the word of God.
  2. Trinitarian: The Father, Son, Holy Spirit are all one God in three persons.
  3. Jesus is God and has always existed with the Father.
  4. The Holy Spirit is a person.
  5. Jesus' sacrifice was vicarious.
  6. Salvation is by grace, not works.
  7. Jesus rose from the dead physically in his glorified body.
  8. Jesus ascended bodily into heaven.
  9. Baptism is by immersion
  10. The literal, visible return of Jesus.
  11. Jesus will return to set up a millennial kingdom.  They are Premillennial.
  12. Literal six day creation, not long periods.

Denials

  1. Denies the doctrine of predestination
  2. Denies baptism by sprinkling
  3. Denies infant baptism.
  4. Denies the immortality of the soul.
  5. Denies the eternality of hell fire.
  6. Denies any use of alcohol (as a drink) or tobacco.

Aberrant

  1. Our sins will ultimately be placed on Satan - The Great Controversy, p. 422, 485.
  2. Jesus is Michael the Archangel.
  3. Worship must be done on Saturday (the Sabbath).
  4. On October 22, 1844 Jesus entered the second and last phase of his atoning work.
  5. Investigative Judgment - the fate of all people will be decided based upon this event in the future.
  6. The dead do not exist anymore -- soul sleep.
  7. The wicked are annihilated.
  8. Ellen G. White, the "founder" of Seventh Day Adventism, was a messenger from God gifted with the spirit of prophecy.
  9. There is a sanctuary in heaven where Jesus carries out his mediatorial work.


Ellen G. White Contradictions

Ellen G. White:"There He honored Elijah by sending food to him morning and evening by an angel of heaven." Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 288 written in 1873
Bible:"I have ordered the ravens to feed you. ... The ravens brought him bread and meat." 1 Kings 17:4, 6

Ellen G. White:1896:"He was to be like those who belonged to the human family and the Jewish race. His features were to be like those of other human beings, and he was not to have such beauty of person as to make people point him out as different from others." Christ Our Saviour, p. 9, Edition 1896
Ellen G. White:1898:"No one, looking upon the childlike countenance, shining with animation, could say that Christ was just like other children." Questions on Doctrine, p. 649, 1957
Bible:"He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." Isaiah 53:2 NIV

Ellen G. White:"The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty." Letter 32, 1899, quoted in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1129
Bible: Read my section on "Is Jesus God?"

Ellen G. White:CHRIST CHOSE JUDAS: "When Judas was chosen by our Lord, his case was not hopeless." Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 41
Ellen G. White:DISCIPLES CHOSE JUDAS: "The disciples were anxious that Judas should become one of their number. ... They commended him to Jesus." Desire of Ages, p. 294
Ellen G. White:JUDAS CHOSE HIMSELF: "While Jesus was preparing the disciples for their ordination, one who had not been summoned urged his presence among them. It was Judas Iscariot, a man who professed to be a follower of Christ. He now came forward soliciting a place in this inner circle of disciples. ... He hoped to experience this through connecting himself with Jesus." Desire of Ages, pp. 293, 717

Ellen G. White: "At the Suggestion of Herod, a crown was plaited from a vine bearing sharp thorns, and this was placed upon the sacred brow, of Jesus; and an old tattered purple robe, once the garment of a king, was placed upon his noble form." 3 Spirit of Prophecy p.138, 1887 Edition.
Bible: "Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate." Luke 23:11 NIV

Ellen G. White: "In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Men need to understand that Deity suffered and sank under the agonies of Calvary." Manuscript 44, 1898, and the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 907
Ellen G. White: "The Deity did not sink under the agonizing torture of Calvary" Letter: 1899, quoted in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, page 1129

Ellen G. White: "The blood of Christ, while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel sin ... it will stand in the sanctuary until the final atonement." Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 357
BIBLE: "In him we have ("have" is present tense) redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins." Ephesians 1:7


Ellen G. White and Meat

Although Ellen G. White condemned the eating of meat, eggs, and butter ("You place on your table butter, eggs, and meat, and your children partake of them. They are fed with the very things that will excite their animal passions, and then you come to meeting and ask God to bless and save your children. How high do your prayers go?" 2T. p. 362.) yet she ate those very things herself many times. And she obviously did not read 1 Cor 10:25, which says "Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience..."

"When we were down in Texas, and old Brother White was breaking down, (Sister White) just got the most beautiful venison every day to eat, and my wife would cook it, and he would sit down and say ‘O Ellen, that is just the thing!’ She never did hold him up and make him live on a diet of starch!" A. G. Daniells, Spectrum 1919 Bible Conference p. 41.

"Christmas morning we all took breakfast together--James Cornell; Florence and Clara, their two girls; Brother and Sister Moore and their three children; Sister Bahler and Etta, a girl living with them; and Sister Daniells, our cook, Father, and myself. We had a quarter of venison cooked, and stuffing. It was as tender as a chicken. We all enjoyed it very much. There is plenty of venison in market." (Written December 26, 1878, from Denison, Texas, to "Dear Family at Battle Creek--Willie, Mary, Aunt Mary, Edith, Addie and May, and Brother and Sister Sawyer.") Manuscript Releases Volume Fourteen, page 318. Letter 23, 1878.

She said herself: "Mary, if you can get me a good box of herrings, fresh ones, please do so. These last ones that Willie got are bitter and old. If you can buy cans, say, half a dozen cans, of good tomatoes, please do so. We shall need them. If you can get a few cans of good oysters, get them." Letter 16, 1882

There are many more evidences than this that she in fact did eat what she condemned.


Conclusion

If you are holding to the truths of Ellen G. White, then you are not holding to the truths of God's Holy Bible. The Bible should be the authority, not a human. Ellen G. White contradicted the Bible many times and even denied the deity of Christ, while not even holding to her own teachings on the eating of meat, butter, and eggs. Ellen G. White's writings are for sure not equal to the Bible's.


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Written 3/9/03