“The SDA cult shares that same flaw as catholicism.”
It seems to me that these cults believe in God’s freely giving salvation by grace at the high cost Christ Jesus paid at the cross.
And then … it happens … it trickles in. “I need to do something because what Lord Jesus did is not enough.”
That “reasoning” is horrible because it assumes that God can’t fully save a person by Himself. That He needs some help in getting the job done and that Christ Jesus’ death on the cross was pretty good, for sure, just not good enough. That person has a checklist of things to do and things not to do to get the job of his salvation done correctly and completely. They seem to help God save them, as if we were somehow able to save ourselves.
There is only God’s grace provided at Christ’s expense to save.
Church pews have been filled with unsaved people who believe if they attend every service, tithe, etc., etc., that they are surely heaven bound.
I met a sick gentleman once who was trying to sell his house quickly. He had only so long to live and wanted to make sure he somehow “bought” salvation before dying. Fortunately, there was a man then present who knew the Bible and was able to get the message of salvation by grace to him in a way he understood it. The man had almost never missed a sermon and lived as religiously as anyone could but didn’t have salvation until his life was just about over. But, praise God, the man was saved.
If we think we add anything to the ransmoe price paid, we detract from the Glory due ONLY to God for His Grace in Christ Jesus. The pirposed conflating of justification and sanctification is a demonic trick too man entertain.