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Subject : SDAism
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dear jill,
a little over a year ago, I met a boy in my summer school class. he was a
seventh day adventist. having heard it was a cult I took to the web to
research adventism and read CRI's evaluation of Adventism based on the
written report of Walter Martin. reading that SDAism was a heterodoxical
Christian denomination made me relieved: if he was Christian everything
was ok. (I am a Christian). so we ended up dating for a year.
but it turns out it's not like it was written on paper. the SDA church
and its members do not fully accept other Chrstians unless they 'convert'
to SDAism and accept all their 'heterodoxical' doctrines, which
incidentally come from Ellen G. White whom they take on par with Scripture
and continually support as divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. they
want all christians to accept their doctrines which are theologically
unsound (according to hebrew and greek exegesis). not to mention their
socially isolated systems of private schools from pre-school to graduate
school.
it turns out that the boy I came to love, the very same one that help
plant dreams of marriage and children rejected me outright because I would
not accept Adventist doctrine ... how could I? It wasn't biblical. true,
Adventists may be Christians, but what other Christian denomination would
do that? would a presbyterian reject a baptist over sprinkling versus
immersion?
I beg, with all my heart, that the Walter Martin site do something to
further clarify the current SDA position because I hate to see anyone else
so deceived by this denomination. my friend who decided to leave
adventism has a wife who is divorcing him because he doesn't want to be
adventist anymore. he is still a Christian, but does not want to be
Adventist. the deception is subtle, true, and on paper it just sounds
like they have a couple of different (albeit bizarre) doctrines that don't
sound that harmful. when the reality of the SDA church is very different.
SDA hold more to the traditions of Mormons and JW's, the boy I dated is
third generation SDA with every single member on both sides Adventist.
I trusted in the research Walter Martin had promulgated. I also trusted
in my now ex-boyfriend, who never told me during the relationship that he
could only marry an Adventist, and only wanted to send his children to
Adventist schools. but it is the only way he can see things, he is very
blind, and my heart still breaks when I think of it. I can have "former
Adventists" testify to the harmful nature of this sect, but please publish
something about the danger of getting involved in Adventism.
in God's love, joy