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LESSON 5

REFUTING SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISM

The Seventh Day Adventist cult (SDA), like the campbellites, also started in
the early 1800s. It's founder was William Miller, but more often SDA
literature will promote the writings of Ellen White. If you see religious
pamphlets lying around (no pun intended), but you can't tell which cult
they're from, look for Ellen White's name in the fine print.

Seventh Day Adventists call themselves "Adventists" because they claim to

focus on Christ's 2nd Advent (Revelation 19:11-21). They call themselves
"Seventh Day" because most of them believe you have to keep the Ten
Commandments, including the Sabbath (rest on Saturday) to be saved (or at
least to stay saved).

THE SABBATH'S BEGINNING

One reason we know the sabbath has nothing to do with salvation today (i.e.
after the Mosaic law) is that it didn't before the law either. NOBODY kept
the sabbath for at least the first 2000 years of history, because nobody even
knew about it until God gave the law on Mount Sinai.

Nehemiah 9:13-14 "Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and
spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and
true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto

them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and
laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:"

SDAs assume everyone knew about the sabbath all along because Genesis
2:2-3 says "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that

in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."