I admire Dr. Carson. But I remember a lot of posts on FR back when he was running for President making fun of him for some of his beliefs and for being a Seventh Day Adventist.
Yes, probably the most misunderstood Christian Protestant Denomination. We are simply Protestants. We are Lutherans becaue we believe in Righteousness by faith, (alone not keeping the Sabbath or the law...that’s the evidence of faith, the law is the standard, the 10 commandments).....we are baptists because we believe in baptism by immersion, we are methodists because we believe in living a life of obedience (holy living) to the best of our ability.....and then we have prophecy and we believe the fourth commandment will be a very controverted issue in the end.
The protestants of old recognized who the litle horn of Daniel 7 was and we follow in believing that. Daniel and Revelation go together and interpret each other.
Finally, we believe we are in end times and God is preparing a people for translation. The health message of the Bible, God’s original diet is a healthy one. In fact, National Geographic identified Loma Linda Ca as a place where people live an average of 8 or so years longer than the general population. Loma Linda is home of Seventh day Adventist, our Medical school, our largest church, and so many doctors and health care professsionals.
There are other distinctive beliefs, we dont believe the bible teaches anything about a disembodied soul that departs at death. The Bible says death is a sleep until Christ returns. Then the dead are raised....to meet him in the air and go home. We also don’t view the Old Testament as Jew and Law, and the New Testament is Grace and Christian. God never had 2 ways of saving anyone. We believe we are Spiritual Israel.....Paul said “ye be Christ, ye be Abraham” and Jesus said he took the Kingdom away from Israel and has given it to a new nation. Physical Israel is not relevant to end time prophecy.......We keep our eyes on Rome and that false system. We dont judge people....just the system that claims to be God on earth, to forgive sins and even to change the law of God. The catechism says Sunday is the Lord’s day, the first day but we disagree. Throughout scripture the 7th day is God’s holy day and only God can make anything holy.
I know many here disagree but that is how I understand the Bible and that is why I am a Christian first, a Protestant second and a Seventh day Adventist third.....in that order.
We study the Bible a lot....we are protestants. Our message is exploding around the world too....