False Doctrines from the SDA Church on Social Media

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

I admire my Seventh Day Adventist friends for their love for God’s Word and obedience to what they believe God’s Word is telling them to do, but as far as Sabbath day observance goes, the bottom line for me is the New Testament does not teach it! In Acts chapter 15 when the Apostles disputed whether the Gentiles needed to keep the Laws of Moses or not, the conclusion was they needed to keep only four precepts:

Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from
(1) pollutions of idols,
(2) and from fornication,
(3) and from things strangled,
(4) and from blood.

Notice Sabbath day observance is not one of them!

I saw this meme on Facebook and I want to tell my readers why it’s not true.

First of all, nowhere in the Bible does it call the Sabbath a day of worship! What does the Bible say? It says:

Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

The Sabbath was a day of rest and not specifically designated as a day of worship! In the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, there are 8 verses with the words Sabbath and rest. The word worship is not in any of them. And it’s certainly not the “day of the sun” as the meme claims. SDAs even call believers meeting together on Sunday the “Mark of the Beast!” Christians meeting together on Sunday was a tradition that started in Jerusalem according to Acts 20:7, way before the Church of Rome was founded!

“Sabbath observance, not trust in Christ alone for complete forgiveness of sins and eternal life, is to be the dividing line between the saved and the lost in the end time.” – Ellen G. White

That is rank heresy! It tells me she has no idea of the true Gospel of Christ! Ellen White promoted a works religion. Her statement is totally against the core meaning of the Gospel.

I don’t judge my SDA friends for feeling it necessary to observe the Sabbath, and I do think it is important to take at least one day a week off to rest, pray, and have more time to study God’s Word, but the New Testament does not tell me that day of rest must Saturday.

I get the following from Leo Lehmann’s Converted Catholic Magazine.

The Council of Laodicea in 343 (way before the Bishop of Rome claimed to be the Vicar of Christ) , under the Emperor Constantine’s dictate, decreed as follows:

“Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day.” The following should be noted:

The “observance” of Sunday, the first day of the week, was customary among the early Christians, as may be seen from Acts 20:7.
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Opposition to Judaism was the chief reason for the change.
Salvation under the New Testament dispensation is by faith in Christ’s all-sufficient work of redemption, not by observance of days, forms and ceremonies.
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Hello Brian. I am honored and blessed to know that you find my website of value and visit it daily. Thank you for your encouragement!

I just want to comment on your presupposition that Jesus was referring to the 10 Commandments in John 14:15. What about His commandment in Mark 16:15? “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” How much of that one have you obeyed? How many countries have you shared the Gospel in? I spent 40 years in Japan, 3 years in Russia, and weeks in a dozen other countries doing it. And now I’m in the Philippines. I certainly don’t think I’m better than you or more righteous than you are, but I have dedicated my life as a missionary to share the Gospel with other nations because I believe it’s being obedient for me to the Lord’s commandment to do so. And that includes what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…

If you read the Book of Hebrews, especially chapter 8, you will see we are under a New Covenant. Covenant is synonymous with Testament. In my opinion Ellen White was too much into the OLD Covenant. The Law or the 10 Commandments is supposed to lead us to Christ because it shows us our sin. James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all..” Can you say you don’t offend ever in any point of the Law? I sure can’t. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Nobody, including Ellen White, was a perfect keeper of the law of Moses. So I take issue with the statement that Jesus was talking about the 10 Commandments in John 14:15. He gave other commandments such as John 15:14 “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” John 15:17 “These things I command you, that ye love one another.” Matthew 22:37 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

If we love God we will love our neighbor and seek to share the Gospel with him. And we ought to obey the Lord’s commandment in Mark 16:15 to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” or try to support those who do.
If there was anything in the New Covenant, the New Testament that indicated to me that I needed to obey the 4th Commandment, I would do it. But I don’t see anywhere in the New Testament that I need to. In Acts chapter 15, the Gentiles were given only 4 precepts to follow:
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:”
No mention of Sabbath day keeping whatsoever! And Paul said in Colossians 2:16 ¶Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
So I believe that Ellen G. White and her SDA church is wrong about Sabbath Day keeping just as the Jews were wrong about unless a man is circumcised, he cannot be saved.

Thank you, my brother, for your friendship. I corrected your typo and changed former to latter.
James

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False Doctrines from the SDA Church on Social Media — 4 Comments

Brian Carlson on February 24, 2025 at 1:08 pm said:

I come to your site EVERY DAY because I always know that I can find more excellent insight into the dangers of Rome.
I consider you a friend and a brother in Christ as you are.

I do, however, wish to ask you a simple question.
Two years ago, at the age of 49, and after wrestling with the Sabbath issue for my whole life, I finally decided that I must obey the simple command given by Jesus himself in John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my Commandments (the 10 Commandments)

The 4th Commandment is one of the 10 and God doesn’t change.
Malachi 3:6 “I am the Lord, I change not.”

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever.”

My question is this, since the definition of sin is found in I John 3:4 “He who committed sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the Law.”

Do I commit sin by keeping the 4th Commandment or do I commit sin by breaking it?

I chose the latter and have found peace like a river.

Blessings my friend!

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- James Arendt on February 24, 2025 at 2:16 pm said:
  
  Hello Brian. I am honored and blessed to know that you find my website of value and visit it daily. Thank you for your encouragement!
  
  I just want to comment on your presupposition that Jesus was referring to the 10 Commandments in John 14:15. What about His commandment in Mark 16:15? “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” How much of that one have you obeyed? How many countries have you shared the Gospel in? I spent 40 years in Japan, 3 years in Russia, and weeks in a dozen other countries doing it. And now I’m in the Philippines. I certainly don’t think I’m better than you or more righteous than you are, but I have dedicated my life as a missionary to share the Gospel with other nations because I believe it’s being obedient for me to the Lord’s commandment to do so. And that includes what Jesus said in Matthew 28:19: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…
  
  If you read the Book of Hebrews, especially chapter 8, you will see we are under a New Covenant. Covenant is synonymous with Testament. In my opinion Ellen White was too much into the OLD Covenant. The Law or the 10 Commandments is supposed to lead us to Christ because it shows us our sin. James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all..” Can you say you don’t offend ever in any point of the Law? I sure can’t. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Nobody, including Ellen White, was a perfect keeper of the law of Moses. So I take issue with the statement that Jesus was talking about the 10 Commandments in John 14:15. He gave other commandments such as John 15:14 “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” John 15:17 “These things I command you, that ye love one another.” Matthew 22:37 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
  38 This is the first and great commandment.
  39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
  
  If we love God we will love our neighbor and seek to share the Gospel with him. And we ought to obey the Lord’s commandment in Mark 16:15 to “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” or try to support those who do.
  If there was anything in the New Covenant, the New Testament that indicated to me that I needed to obey the 4th Commandment, I would do it. But I don’t see anywhere in the New Testament that I need to. In Acts chapter 15, the Gentiles were given only 4 precepts to follow:
  Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication:”
  No mention of Sabbath day keeping whatsoever! And Paul said in Colossians 2:16 ¶Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
  So I believe that Ellen G. White and her SDA church is wrong about Sabbath Day keeping just as the Jews were wrong about unless a man is circumcised, he cannot be saved.
  
  Thank you, my brother, for your friendship. I corrected your typo and changed former to latter.
  James
  
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jon on January 17, 2024 at 1:41 am said:

know what you mean on this subject. i used to be in the 7- church but left. they try to make you believe that you are not saved without keeping that sabbath. we are not saved by works.

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- James Arendt on January 17, 2024 at 2:13 pm said:
  
  Amen. Thank you, Jon, for supporting the truth of this article.
  
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