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"The correctly instructed Christian believes that Christ—here and now—has saved him from eternity’
heredity . . . bad blood and inherited meanness’ ! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that when Christ shed His blood upon the cross, He made an offering completely acceptable to God for the sinner’s reconciliation. The Seventh-day Adventist does not believe this — he does not believe that Christ completed the atonement when He suffered and bled on Calvary! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that when Christ died 'on the tree,’ He then and there bore 'in His own body’ all our sins. The Seventh-day Adventist believes that, in the end, Satan will be man’s sin-bearer! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that Christ - here and noiv — has saved him, and for all eternity! The Seventh-day .Adventist believes tht no one is saved in this life — that eternal life is but a mere future 'hope!’ "The correctly instructed Christian believes that by his faith in Christ alone ■— 'without the deeds of the law’ — he has eternal salvation. The Seventh-day Adventist believes that eternal life is obtained by 'perfect obedience’ to the Sinaitic law! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that Christ is 'the end of the law’ — the one who by His death, perfectly fulfilled the law and thus terminated it. The Seventh-day Adventist believes that the law is still in force — that it has 'never been annulled,’ and that Christians are obliged to keep it! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that in this age of the 'better covenant,’ Christ is his Sabbath or his day-by-day spiritual 'rest’ — the 'finisher’ of his faith — his perfect and ever-continuing peace. The Seventh-day Adventist believes that only by observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath may one be 'sealed with the seal of the living God’ and experience true peace within his soul! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that when his natural life ceases, his spirit will immediately 'depart and be with Christ.’ The Seventh-day Adventist believes that in death the whole man sleeps in the grave, in complete unconsciousness, till Christ comes to awaken him at the time of His second advent! "The correctly instructed Christian believes that at death the spirits of the wicked dead go to their 'own place’ — hades, 'the unseen world,’ and following the judgment of 'the great white throne,’ will be 'cast into the lake of [unquenchable] fire’ where 'the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever.’ "The Seventh-day Adventist believes that the unrighteous dead sleep peacefully in their graves until the second resur rection, and after the judgment God will consign them to 'a furnace of fire,’ and there in 'love and mercy’ cause them to be 'utterly destroyed’ — annihilated!” My friends, is it necessary to bring any further evidence to show that Seventh-day Adventism is not evangelical? May God in His light give you to see the light. Ever "Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thes. 5 :2 1 ).
unconsciousness; that he remains 'asleep,' altogether oblivious to the passing of time or events, until the first resurrection if he is accounted righteous, or until the second resurrection if he is numbered among the wicked. The Punishment of Sinners: We believe that 'the wages of sin is death’; that the punishment meted out to sinners will be eternal death, total extinction by fire, after they are adjudged guilty before the bar of God.” It is needless to say that none of these teachings are to be found in the gospel message of the Word of God. No true evangelical accepts them. How then can anyone who is evangelical approve a sect which teaches them? How can a true Christian be indifferent to such teachings going into homes and capturing the hearts and minds of little children and young people? The Word of God clearly reveals that man was created an immortal soul who will live somewhere forever — either with God or forever separated from Him in hell. When a Christian dies, his spirit goes immediately into the presence of Christ where, though "absent from the body,” he (the inner man) is "present with the Lord” (Eph. 3:16; 2 Cor. 5 :1 -8 ); and the unbeliever — the one who rejects Christ as Saviour — will find himself in a place of everlasting punishment, prepared for the devil and his angels, with all of those who have bypassed Calvary and rejected the love of God as revealed in the blessed and only Saviour. Much more should, and could, be written upon Seventh- day Adventism. I had hoped to reproduce more of Mrs. White’s visions but those who are interested can buy the book, Early Writings, and read them. One can see why the Seventh-day Adventist must resort to such extra-Scriptural "evidences” as visions, dreams and revelations for his beliefs for he certainly cannot find support for them in the Scriptures. In conclusion, with the author’s permission, I quote the following "contrasts” from a book previously referred to, Why You Should Not Be a Seventh-day Adventist, by Rev. E. B. Jones. This gives me an opportunity to pay tribute to the tireless labors of this thoroughly informed and faithful servant of God who serves the Christian church well in his unenviable specialized ministry of exposing the falsity and the soul-endangering character of this sect. I consider repre hensible the efforts of the self-appointed champions of Seventh-day Adventism to "downgrade” Mr. Jones, the late D. M. Canright, and others who have repudiated the poisonous doctrines of this unscriptural system and, by the grace of God, have forsaken it. For a final summing up of the case here are: Some Startling Contrasts "The correctly instructed Christian believes that Christ was a 'holy’ — a sinless — Saviour. The Seventh-day Advent ist believes that our Lord’s nature, while here in the flesh, was 'sinful’ -— that 'in His veins was the incubus of a tainted
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