Mr. Gregory,
There IS a difference between "saved" Christians(IN ALL DENOMINATIONS) and Seventh-day Adventists "members" that have lived in the light for decades and reject that light.
Seventh-day Adventists are clearly to be a "light" unto the entire earth and to reject the very sources of that light is apostasy!!!
I can easily excuse the Lutheran and the Holy Roman Catholic, and even a misguided Islamist and can see easily how they may have lived up to the light they had and are entitled to stand at the right hand of the throne in God's good and balanced justice.
BUT, the Seventh-day Adventist that has not grown from deliberate rejection of God given very special light, for those heirs, there is no question that at some point they are found definitively wanting and on the left hand and the Lord clearly declares "I HAVE KNOWN YOU NOT".
There are very defining standards by which you can determine if one is a "Seventh-day Adventist" and very clear definitions that put many a "social church-goer" (deliberately not labeling them "Adventists" as it is IMPOSSIBLE to believe in evolution and also believe there will be a Second Coming, an essential belief to be an "Adventist") that live well outside the clear definitions of being Seventh-day Adventists.
You can like it or lump it, but it is what it is and putting on blinders will not save any SDA from the light they have been given. Rejection is not where any of us want to be and everyone can easily identify the difference between the light and the darkness. As we get ever closer to the final days that definition will become clearer and clearer for those who do, and those who do not, accept the Light. The future of those who reject the light has been clear for over 150 years.
I will stand firm on the premise that those who have grown up in light and reject it ARE NOT SEVENTH=DAY ADVENTISTS. and that indeed does apply to both of us, most assuredly!!!
Gailon Arthur Joy
AUReporter