David Stewart's charges:

[Gerr]

5. SDA's also require baptism (baptismal regeneration). This is one of the biggest stumblingblocks to faith in the world today. If you place your faith in Jesus + baptism, then you are NOT trusting the Saviour. Baptismal regeneration is a lie of Satan. See: What is Biblical baptism?.

6. SDA's worship the Sabbath, a grave mistake. Few people realize that Jesus IS OUR SABBATH. The Old Testament Sabbath day was a ceremonial law, not a moral law. It applied ONLY to the Jews, just as circumcision and the prohibition against eating pork. So for the sake of consistency, SDA's should never eat any bacon or ham, right? Just as with all false religions, it is hypocrisy. The Sabbath was a picture of Christ. Man worked six days, and then rested on the seventh. The Sabbath was representative of man ceasing from his own efforts and trusting wholly upon the Lord instead. This teaching is confirmed in Hebrews 4:3, "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." There is no more Sabbath day today because Jesus was the fulfillment of what the Sabbath pictured. Hebrews 10:1 teaches that the ceremonial laws were only a "shadow" of good things to come. When the sun is directly overhead there is no shadow. Likewise, when Christ fulfilled the Sabbath, it was no longer needed. If we rest in Christ (place our trust upon Him), then we will have our sins forgiven and go to Heaven.

I need not go into a lengthy article to expose Seventh-Day Adventism as a false religion. If they are wrong on salvation, they are damned to Hell. I say this with great sadness and with the hope that many Adventists reading this article will forsake their false religion and turn wholly to Jesus Christ.

[skyblue888]

Nothing new under the sun. We have heard these claims many times over the years and we know that they are false.

To begin with the seventh day Sabbath was not part of the ceremonial laws. It was instituted by God before the entrance of sin and therefore it cannot be a shadow. It is part of the moral law and will never be done away with.

Water baptism is merely a symbol of the fact that we have already passed from spiritual death unto spiritual life in Christ Jesus by beholding Him and believing that the Father receives us unto Himself but only through the merits of His infinite sacrifice and we are to continue in this faith in order to maintain the infinite blessings of pardon and peace and light and joy and righteousness in the Holy Spirit.

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[OzarkWoman]

I saw this guys stuff on the net when I was researching this denomination when my husband and I first started attending services. In fact, I have read numerous anti-SDA stuff along with the pro-SDA stuff. I spent many months researching and asking questions of many different people, but especially the pastor that brought me into the church. If a person is, indeed, seriously interested in this denomination then the anti-SDA stuff should not really scare them away, that is if they enough of a brain to know that not everything that is on the internet is the truth.