Seventh-Day Adventism and Catholicism: Insider Views

Seventh-Day Adventism is a false religion and a cult.  Does your church has solid material to evangelize people lost in that false religion, such as Bible Truths for Seventh-Day Adventist Friends?  It is very interesting to get an inside view on this false religion, and see the struggle between certain aspects of Biblical influence and those who are committed to its corrupt heretical doctrines.  I (relatively) recently watched Seventh Day Adventism at the Crossroads:

where two leading Seventh-Day Adventist theologians exposed as erroneous one of the leading SDA heresies, the Investigative Judgment (if there are significant numbers of SDAs in your area, you should know what that heresy is.)  Unfortunately--but not surprisingly--they were kicked out of their positions in the religion because they were not wiling to hold on to the heresy of the Investigative Judgment and were willing to say that the (false) prophetess Ellen White simply got it wrong on this matter, even while they tried to put their false SDA religion in the best light that they could.  I also watched another video from the same show (the John Ankerberg Show) where the president of the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventism was interviewed and asked about the same sort of issues that got Dr. Desmond Ford kicked out of his Adventist seminary.  It is instructive to see how this SDA leader sought to dance around the issues asked him by the evangelicals Walter Martin and John Ankerberg--very useful, as you should be ready for a similar dance if you talk to Adventists yourself and seek to give them the gospel.  You can watch this latter video here:

or on Youtube here (it is in five parts).

I absolutely do not endorse the horrible contemporary music played briefly on the shows in the intro and ending of the John Ankerberg show.  Nor do I endorse the deep compromise of men such as Walter Martin and Ankerberg, who are far too willing to recognize Adventists and other cultists as Christians.  Nevertheless, these videos will give you some insight into the Seventh-Day Adventist denomination.  Before watching them I would recommend that you read Bible Truths for Seventh-Day Adventist Friends so that you have some background to this discussion.  Another useful resource (although strongly neo-evangelical, so much so that it considers people in false religions like Lutheranism, that teach baptismal regeneration, true Christians, alongside of people in groups like Community or Bible churches) is Life Assurance Ministries, which has a useful and free magazine exposing Adventism by former Adventists called Proclamation!  (I would recommend the magazine as worth a read for pastors and others in church leadership. but would not want new Christians or other weaker brethren exposed to the neo-evangelicalism in the magazine.)

Another insight of value, in relation to another false religion, Roman Catholicism, is that Catholic news sources have concluded that 50% or even more of Catholic "clergy" are sodomites, and this extremely high percentage of Catholic priestly homosexuals has been verified by secular news sources.  Thus, if you pray for doors of utterance to give the gospel (Colossians 4:3) and God gives you the opportunity to speak to a Catholic priest, keep in mind that he is far, far more likely not only to be involved in a corrupt works-based religion, but he has an extremely high chance of being a sodomite, so in addition to giving him something like Bible Truths for Catholic Friends you might also want to have available a gospel tract such as Truth for Gay Friends. (If you have an opportunity to speak to a priest, you should do it--many, many of them have never heard the gospel.)

If you are truly born-again, thank God for His great mercy to you in delivering you from corrupt false religions like Catholicism and Seventh-Day Adventism, and get as well-equipped as you can to help those caught in these fearful errors using that powerful Sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, to the glory of the Triune Jehovah, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

TDR