False Doctrines from the SDA Church on Social Media
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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:
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.
- Our aim is to present facts of objective truth, and to leave it to each one to act on them according to his conscience under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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