Sorry I won’t be much help about your questions..just thought I’d tell you that I grew up in this church..well, until probably middle school. My mom was raised methodist, my dad.SDA. My mom tried to adopt this church as her faith, but really had a hard time. We stopped going as a family. My dad attended some times. Now he attends weekly, my mom attends the Methodist church weekly..and I married a catholic and attend that weekly. I of course am really conflicted about all the flavors of Christianity. I’m interested in what responses you receive to this post.
Just stick to the biblical basics about Jesus Christ. What a church does with Jesus Christ shows whether or not it’s in apostasy. HE is the pivot point.
” I of course am really conflicted about all the flavors of Christianity.”
Jesus did not come to start a new religion. All religions are man-made. Religion is about rules and regs - rules and regs are about control of the people.
You will get a lot more unadultrated reading from the Bible in the Catholic church than you will in today’s Methodist church. I do not know one way or another about SDA.
I have known many SDA’s, and some know the way of Salvation, some don’t. Of course, I could say the same about Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Prespyterians etc etc.
I was in the army with many SDA’s, and I have known one or two SDA chaplains. In the army, SDA’s pulled duty like KP etc on Sunday, we on Saturday.
My own opinion is that the New Testament does not teach a Saturday worship day. Jesus was raised from the dead on Sunday. The New Testament teaches that any time wqe, as followers of Jesus Christ come together it is right to celebrate communion to “show forth His death ‘til he come”. He shuggested that this be often.
Every day is a Holy day, in my book - the Bible does not teach me otherwise. Keeping the Sabbath was a command that God gave to the Israelites. I do not see that as a command today.
There are others who also teach “keep the Sabbath” (Saturday). There are some Messianic Christians who do so. I do not have a problem with their doing that. The also keep all of the Old Testament Feasts that God ordained, and they also keep Hanukkah, though Hanukkah is a “man ordained” feast, started by Judas Maccabeus and his followers.
If one wants to adhere to Old Testament teaching to the Israelites about the Sabbath, then they probably should also adhere to the teaching about the six God ordained feasts (three in the spring, three in the autumn). And, of course, go to Jerusalem to celebrate these feasts!