Supposedly the evangelicals didn’t like Romney’s Mormonism.
I’d think Seventh-Day Adventism would be as big a problem.
(If I remember the “Bible Answerman” program correctly.)
Yes, a big problem. Like Jehovah’s Witnesses, SDA’s teach that Jesus is the Archangel Michael. Not what mainstream evangelicals believe at all.
“Supposedly the evangelicals didn’t like Romney’s Mormonism.”
I had problems with Mormons in the presidency because it is a religion of works, not faith. Hence you get things like Romneycare.
I know zilch about SDA, but maybe someone could explain how it would affect Carson’s governing philosophy? Religion does matter in my mind.
But it may not matter, Carson is beginning to implode.
I find some of Ellen White’s teaching problematic.
Her unfulfilled prophetic statements are whisked away by the assertion that somehow the actions of men were to blame. How can men overcome the will of God?
The backtracking and explaining away of her claims that some races are an amalgamation of man and beast are also suspect in my mind.
Disclaimer: I have never sat under the teaching of an SDA ministry, and cannot speak for the whole of their doctrine.
But I have read enough about and by Mrs. White to come to the conclusion that holding her up as a prophet(ess) is, in my own opinion, a position and pedestal unsupported by scripture.
How that bears on my opinion of someone’s qualifications for office? No bearing at all.
However, I think it would be naive to believe that some evangelicals, included among these some who supported Huckabee simply based on his prior ordination, would and will find his denominational choice troubling.
I’m so old that I remember when being Catholic would disqualify anyone from becoming President.
The thought was the Pope would be running the Country.
Now we have Obama and Satan is running the Country.
Like Trump, I have no idea what the Teachings of the Seventh Day Adventist Religion are.
Yes, there were people who would not vote for Romney because Mormonism Is pseudoChristian and there are people who will not vote for Cardin because they regard Seventh Day Adventism as a modern restorationist cult, or pseudoChristian like Mormonism and JW. I think it makes more sense to vote against the most dangerous candidate, Hillary, by voting for whoever the Republican nominee that is chosen.