Avoiding the Snare of Seventh-Day Adventism

Avoiding the Snare of

Seventh-day Adventism

By David W. Cloud

Avoiding the Snare of Seventh-day Adventism

Copyright ? 1984, 1999, 2008 by David W. Cloud Second edition enlarged 1999

Third edition updated, edited, enlarged September 2008 ISBN 1-58318-036-2

Published by

Way of Life Literature

P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368 866-295-4143 (toll free) ? fbns@ (e-mail)

(web site)

2

Canada: Bethel Baptist Church, 4212 Campbell St. N., London, Ont. N6P 1A6

519-652-2619 (voice) ? 519-652-0056 (fax)

3

Contents

Introduction: Adventists Wanted Me to Revise This Book

4

Adventist History Proves It Is Heretical

8

Adventist Doctrine Proves It Is Heretical

18

Heresy #1: Grace Includes the Works of the Law

18

Heresy #2: Sabbath-Keeping

30

Heresy #3: Soul Sleep

44

Heresy #4: Annihilation of the Wicked

57

Heresy #5: Ellen White a Prophetess

63

Heresy #6: Investigative Judgment

84

Heresy #7: Misuse of the Mosaic Law

90

Heresy #8: Vegetarianism

97

Walter Martin and Seventh-day Adventism

103

Seventh-day Adventism, Ecumenism, and Hell

121

Who Was D.M. Canright?

128

My Experience of Twenty-Eight Years in Adventism

130

Origin, History, and Failures of Adventism

151

Mrs. White and Her Revelations

166

Bibliography

204

4

Introduction

The Seventh-day Adventist denomination was

established in the mid-nineteen century. "Seventh-day" refers to sabbath worship. "Adventist" refers to their belief that God raised them up to announce the coming of the Lord. They have 15 million members worldwide in 61,000 churches. They are working in 203 countries and 885 languages and dialects. They operate 63 publishing houses, 748 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, and 7,200 schools.

Adventists Wanted Me to Revise This Book

The following study is based directly upon Seventh-day Adventist publications. In researching this report, the author visited Adventist bookstores, colleges, and churches. I also took some of their correspondence courses. Though some of the books used for our documentation of Adventist belief were written in the 1800s and early 1900s, they are still being produced by Adventist publishing houses and distributed to the public throughout the world.

In 1990 I received a letter from the editor of the Adventist periodical Ministry, challenging me to base my investigation of their beliefs solely upon one recently published volume entitled Seventh-day Adventists Believe. In a review of Avoiding the Snare of Seventh-day Adventism, they claimed that by using older sources I was misrepresenting their doctrine.

That idea is a clever deception for the following reasons:

5

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download