my friend is a "7 day adventist" and she said all religions are WRONG!?

Question

She told me that all religions are WRONG! All people are dillusional! If you want to go to heaven you must follow the 10 commandments, one of which says keep the sabath day holly...which is Saturday not Sunday.
I'm a Babtist and go to church on Sundays, and I told her that It doesn't matter what day of the week you go to church to go to heaven. Then she pointed out in the bible where it says "He who brakes one commandment, brakes all." And if you brake 10 commandments, you can't go to heaven! She said All religions are wrong except 7 day adventists.
What can I say? She wants me to convert to her religion....or is she telling me the truth?

Answer 1

7-th day Adventists like to quote scriptures out of context. Also, like most cults they claim to be the only ones who have the correct doctrine. The Mosaic law was superseded when Jesus fulfilled the law. We no longer live under the law, but under grace. (Romans 7:1-6 among other numerous places) The question of the Sabbath specifically is addressed in Romans 14:5-6. A good place to go to systematically debunk every one of the 7th day Adventists false doctrines is in a book called "Kingdom of the Cults".

Answer 2

Every religion thinks that they alone possess the truth. That is what is wrong with most religion. 7th Day Adventists read the same bible as every other Christian religion, and they get their own answers from it, just like all the others. The reason is because people interpret the bible as they see fit. The reason they interpret it is because it has been changed so many times that the meanings behind much of it has been lost. How many different "Christian" religions are there? How can anyone claim to have the truth, when the same book is revealed in so many different ways?

You may be a Baptist, and someone else might be a Pentecostal, and someone else might be a Protestant. If Christians cannot agree on what the truth is, how can you know if any of it is true?

Seek God. Forget about the book. Just seek God. Every religion teaches the same precepts, from Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, and Christianity, as well as Paganism. There are rules to live by which guide us to spiritual awareness. Breaking those rules leaves us bereft of our higher consciousness, and attaches us firmly to the material world, instead of the spiritual world. Just follow the insructions contained in your own religion, and don't worry about what other people believe. They will find out, as you will, soon enough whether their beliefs were founded in truth or not.

Answer 3

As an Adventist, i would say that all religions are wrong about something, including the Adventists, because people are limited in their understanding, and nobody knows everything. We need to have a humble and teachable spirit and be willing to learn more of the truth as God see's fit to reveal it to us.

Your Adventist friend is right about the Sabbath being on Saturday, but i would not agree that "All religions are wrong except 7 day adventists", Adventists are wrong about some things too (but that is a topic for another question).

On the question of Sabbath, when some Christians say that "The 10 commandments were set aside", they actually mean only the Sabbath commandment. If they really teach that all of them are set aside, then it would now be ok to have other gods, make and worship idols, disrespect parents, murder, committ adultery, steal, bear false witness, covet and so on. Surely such lawlessness is not what they are suggesting! As for the idea that the Sabbath commandment was set aside, there is no credible evidence for this from the Bible.

A separate issue is about whether keeping the law can earn a person merit and so get them into heaven. Of course not. That is not what the law is about. Salvation is by God's grace, it is a free gift, it cannot be bought or earned.

On the other hand, God does not just save people arbitrarily, he saves those who want to be saved, those who have faith. And if someone has faith, will they not want to obey God and keep his law?

When Jesus was questioned about the greatest commandments in the law, he quoted Deuteronomy 6:4-5 and Leveticus 19:18, love God and love your neighbour. That is what the 10 commandments are all about.

The Sabbath one is about loving God because you give him a day of your time, you rest from your own works and give thanks for God's works on your behalf - creation, freedom from slavery, salvation. And it is also about loving your neighbour because you are not to burden him with work. Not even your slaves or animals are to work. And the Sabbath is also there to remind us that God is the Creator, as it was made at creation when God rested after making the world, and to remind us of our hope of entering God's rest, both in this life, and in the future when God sets up his kingdom on the earth made new.

Although they have the day right, not all Adventists understand what Sabbath is about, and a few are very legalistic about it and have the wrong attitude about it. In this they are not unlike some of the Jews in Jesus' day who attacked Jesus over the way he or his disciples behaved on Sabbath because it didn't fit with their idea of how Sabbath should be kept. However, don't let this distract you from studying the subject yourself, from the Bible.

Answer 4

There seem to be different "degrees" of Seventh-day Adventism. Some Seventh-day Adventists believe identically to orthodox Christians, other than believing that worship should be held on Saturday and that the Saturday Sabbath should still be observed. If these are the only differences, then yes, a person could be a Seventh-day Adventist and still be a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.



However, some Seventh-day Adventists believe in much more than a Saturday Sabbath / worship day. Seventh-day Adventists have been known to believe in: the annihilation of the wicked instead of an eternal hell, that believers who die enter a state of soul sleep, and that a person must observe the Saturday Sabbath in order to be saved. Other problems with some Seventh-day Adventists are: belief in Ellen G. White, the founder of Seventh-day Adventism, as a true prophet of God even though many of her "prophecies" failed to come true - and - that Jesus entered a second phase of His redemptive work on October 22, 1844, as "prophesied" by Hiram Edson.



So, What is Seventh-day Adventism and what do Seventh-day Adventists believe? Should a Christian attend a Seventh-day Adventist church? Due to the potential doctrinal issues mentioned above, I would strongly encourage believers to not get involved in Seventh-day Adventism. Yes, a person can be an advocate of Seventh-day Adventism and still be a believer. At the same time, there are enough potential issues to make attending a Seventh-day Adventist church questionable at best.

Recommended Resource: Are Seventh-Day Adventists False Prophets? A Former Insider Speaks Out by Wallace Slattery.

Answer 5

Wrong... ALL of the 10 commandments were SET ASIDE!

Ephesians 2:15 Through his body on the cross, Christ put an end to the LAW WITH ALL ITS COMMANDS AND RULES. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Colossians 2:14 He wiped out the written Law with its rules. The Law was against us. It opposed us. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 2:16 ...No one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 2:21 ...What if a person could become right with God by obeying the law? Then Christ died for nothing!

Romans 3:20 So it can’t be said that anyone will be made right with God by obeying the law. Not at all! The law makes us more aware of our sin. 21 But now God has shown us how to become right with him. The Law and the Prophets give witness to this. It has nothing to do with obeying the law.

Galatians 5:4 Some of you are trying to be made right with God by obeying the law. You have been separated from Christ. You have fallen away from God’s grace... The ONLY verse that talks about falling from grace, and they did it by trying to follow the law!

Jesus said he didn’t come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. (Matt 5:17) The effect was the same. Once fulfilled it was no longer in effect. The very next verse, Matthew 5:18, looks forward to the time when the law would be set aside. "...Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED." This “UNTIL” clause reinforces the temporary nature of the law. It ONLY makes sense when we understand that it was intended from the beginning to be set aside.

On the cross, Jesus' last recorded saying, "It is finished," is an important milestone. Because of Jesus life, Satan had been defeated. The law was finished and would no longer stand between God and mankind.

The 10 commandments along with the rest of the law ("commands and rules" from Ephesians 2:15) were "set aside" when they were fulfilled or completed at Jesus' resurrection. We are no longer bound by that law.

Answer 6

All religions...christians and otherwise... are wrong. Even 7th day Adventists (Which is the church I was baptised in) are wrong. No one has the whole truth... and each has some truth. The Bible says we "see thru a glass darkly" Meaning we don't see all the truth. Each person is responsible to live up to the truth that he has learned. The Holy Spirit will reveal -to a searching heart- truth at a time and in a way a person can understand and accept. So keep your heart open to His truth, and live up to what is revealed. To those who have much, much is expected. To those who have little, little is expected.

Answer 7

Usually when someone says that the only way to go to heaven is by joining their church it means that they are either a cult or a false religion.

Answer 8

Friendships

Answer 9

well from what ive learned the sabath is supposed to be saturday but i go to church on sunday

Answer 10

Religion is something that is not told or taught.It is something personal and is not to be influenced by what others say.No religion is wrong.It is right for the person who follows it & believes in it.All holy books only provide a guideline for your life.It is upto you to follow it or not.