Not only has the adventist Church - issued false and unbiblical teachings on the subject of dancing in worship, and it being the only remnant church, they've also issued false doctrine on Ellen White. Ellen White is not the spirit of Prophecy that the Bible is referring to- the bible does not mention Ellen White.
I knew that there was something wrong with the Church when I met Adventists who would have you think that "concealed" fornication is biblical, defrauding is biblical, and slandering others is Biblical and tolerating fornicators, dishonest slanderers and revilers within their ranks is biblical. There is nothing biblical about the non-congregational structure of this Church and about the peculiar fellowship of this Church which has been made impure with a laxity on proper church discipline.
Additionally, there is one writer in Adventist World - I wonder if he is encouraging Christians to have a tolerance for existing within the Church with some that are reknown for their tolerance of sexual debauchery, etc. in their lands - this is celebrated as "diversity", whilst these same authors seem to have an aversion to principles of equity and humanity.
I have a bible with biblical commentary - and the Bible specifically speaks against the Israelites mixing with certain "nations" that are reknown for their sexual immorality and their debauchery - but the Adventist Church seems to celebrate this kind of mixing and even use these peoples as the standard for christianity and Godliness. How can a nation be a Christian nation, if it is indebted to the World bank, if it is Deeply in debt to foreignors - this can't be so according to Deuteronomy, even if said nation calls themselves a "christian" nation - it most certainly is not a Godly or blessed nation. How can a nation for which sexual immorality is a way of life that is accepted be a Godly nation? I'm not only talking about nations indebted to the World Bank, but this also includes the US to which many look up to - especially the "bad" values of the USA in terms of sexual immorality, etc. In the May issue of Adventist WOrld, the notion of Godliness and Church being local was denigrated and Criticized - but this local nature of Church as it concerned Israel was celebrated in the Bible and favored over Israel mixing with foreign lands that were known for their tolerance of sexual sin and other type of immorality. The Adventist World seems to be celebrating this kind of mixing and the Adventist Church is becoming reknown as the place where you come where you want to find an acceptance of all matter of moral compromise, sexual immorality, exploitation, and celebration and tolerance for this. People are confident in the Adventist Church because of the American affiliation of the Church, the wealth of the Church and this Church's affiliation with the immoral conservative political paradigm here. What's precious about other Churhches is the local nature of these churches and that they are not sullied by this mixing with peoples who have quite a tolerance for slander, sexual immorality, etc.
Ellen White's word is not the Spirit of Prophecy- the Adventist CHurch is encouraging everyone to accept everything that Ellen White wrote as Gospel, even her writings where she advocated for unbiblical principles and where in she even advocated for racism. Additionally, the word "Adventist" is no where mentioned in the bible - it is not a biblical word - so I also think the current push to be "proud of being an Adventist" and not to be afraid of mentioning the word "adventist" is also unbiblical for its focus on denominationalism and the word "adventist". Of course some who support this approach, wish to celebrate what makes Adventists allegedly distinct from all other denominations, but these same people choose to ignore that the "adventists" are seminally wrong on doctrine concerning the question of who is the remnant and the spirit of prophecy, and even the biblical nature of the name "adventist."
The Adventist Church is basically equated to Adventist Pastors fomenting genocide in Rwanda and the Congo - this is what this Church has come to represent and this seems to be the cultivated ethos of this Church. Why even some of these Adventist Pastors involved in the Rwandan Genocide did not have a problem with violation of innocent women and rape of these women - and it is this nature of the Adventist Church that makes this Church a lesser Church in many respects than the Churches I've known growing up.
Even some of the Adventist "conservatives" would not be willing to admit that many of the nations who are indebted to the world bank are not "Godly" nations, and this is stated so in Deuteronomy. Some Adventists are "conservative" by choice because they agree with Conservative politics and in fact, because they support sexual immorality with regards to certain ethnic groups of women - and they support a stance that biblical norms and societal norms of decency don't apply to them and certain ethnic groups. Their obsession with the liberal-conservative paradigm shows how wordly they are- in fact, many Adventist conservatives are quite theologically liberal in the bad not good sense. They've distorted biblical doctrine to endorse all manner of the transgressing of societal norms of decency and biblical norms of decency.
I also think that there is an ungodly divisiveness within the Adventist Church that is targetted to other matters is certainly not Godly - and is quite prevalent in the Adventist Church but not in many local churches. I've found too many people who are Adventists who like to spread lies and innuendos and falsehoods about others and do so under the cloak of the fact that the persons they are defending have perpetrated unbiblical behaviors where there is no accountability.
I'm shocked that Adventists can pontificate and even smear persons in situations where there is unashamedly no accountability but accusations made without verification and with reliance on malicious witnesses , many of whom hail from lands where sexual immorality and exploitation of women are applauded and taken lightly. The bible does not celebrate fellowshippiing with lands of peoples for which sexual immorality is taken lightly but the Adventist Church seems to celebrate this.
The Adventist church celebrates this because some forms of American conservatism take sexual immorality and exploitation of women lightly. This draws others who share these moral values.
Another thing about why I knew there is something wrong with Adventist Conservatives - is that they have a problem with feminism, but don't list sexism or patriarchy as part of the problem - which is dishonest. I certainly thnk that a dose of feminism is needed to counteract the lies of Adventists who support sexual immorality, and fornication and exploitation of women.
Feminism is not even defined by these Adventist Conservatives - all feminists do not have a set of shared beliefs - and some feminists do good work, such as correcting the distortions that certain societies have perpetuated about certain ethnic groups of women - may be this explains why many Adventists are against feminism. What you will find is that the Adventists who are against "feminism" are the same ones who support sexual immorality, and dishonest and sexist and tribalist stereotyping of certain ethnic groups of women. These Adventist "conservative" opponents of feminism have a problem with the "leftist" doctrine- whcih says that simply because you are a woman of a certain ethnic group, does not mean that you per se do not have value, are a commodity, and deserve to be mistreated even in violation of biblical norms. If you provoke and probe, you will find that many Adventist Conservatives support sexual immorality, dishonesty, and exploitation of women.
I've just come to the conclusion that soem of the Adventist "leaders" who support sexual immorality, etc. are simply low class - especially in comparison to persons in many of the other church denominations that I know of.. It takes a low class person to defend a sexually immoral adventist and to violate notions of purity in this regard in their perpetuation of slander. This is unheard of of many "local" oriented churches. A church is a problem when it has more peoples that are akin to the peoples in the bible God forbid the Israelites to mix with. There is a problem when there are too few Israelites in the Church that the Israelites have so little in common with the people, and instead the Church is populated with peoples for which sexual immorality, and fornication, dishonesty, and exploitation and are accepted, celebrated and taken lightly. When I think of a Godly person or a Christian - I don't think of an Adventist Pastor who supports Sexual immorality or has been implicated in some Rwandan genocide.
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