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The Seventh-day Adventist Church's official beliefs support annihilation. [45] They hold that the doctrine of Hell as defined by mainstream Christianity is incompatible with the concept that God is love. [46] They believe that God loves humans unconditionally, and has no destructive intentions for human beings.
The Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial Association's Seventh-day Adventists Believe (2005), explains that the opening chapters of Genesis describe a limited creation: 'The "heavens" of Genesis 1 and 2 probably refer to our sun and its system of planets. Indeed, the earth, instead of being Christ's first creation, was most likely His last one.
It is intimately related to the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and was described by the church's prophet and pioneer Ellen G. White as one of the pillars of Adventist belief. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] It is a major component of the broader Adventist understanding of the " heavenly sanctuary ", and the two are sometimes spoken of interchangeably.
The official teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination are expressed in its 28 Fundamental Beliefs. [ 17 ] [ 41 ] This statement of beliefs was originally adopted by the General Conference in 1980, with an additional belief (number 11) being added in 2005. [ 42 ]
Adventists have taught that a persecuting "Sunday law" will be enacted at some stage in the future, as part of the final events of earth's history before Jesus returns, as stated in significant publications such as Questions on Doctrine (1957), [88] Seventh-day Adventists Believe… (1988), [89] and Ellen White's classic The Great Controversy. [90]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church believes that the concept of eternal suffering is incompatible with God's character and that he cannot torture His children. [119] [120] They instead believe that Hell is not a place of eternal suffering, but of eternal death and that death is a state of unconscious sleep until the resurrection.
How It Started. Lenz was 20 years old when she was introduced to a Bible study group by a fellow actress in Los Angeles. The head members were musicians who had been Seventh-day Adventists “but ...
Seventh-day Adventists believe that Hell and Hades are not places of eternal suffering, but of eternal death and that death is a state of unconscious sleep until the resurrection. They base this belief on biblical texts such as Ecclesiastes 9:5 which states "the dead know not any thing", and 1 Thessalonians 4:13 which contains a description of ...