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Seventh-day Adventists Believe ... A Biblical Expositionof 27 Fundamental Doctrines
Copyright 1988 by the Ministerial AssociationGeneral Conference of Seventh-day AdventistsAll rights reserved.Printed in the USA by theReview and Herald Publishing AssociationHagerstown, Maryland 21740Reproduced on the At Issue site by permission.
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A Word About the 27 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists
Through the years Seventh-day Adventists have beenreluctant to formalize a creed (in the usual sense of thatword). However, from time to time, for practical purposes,we have found it necessary to summarize our beliefs.In 1872 the Adventist press at Battle Creek, Michigan, published a "synopsis of our faith" in 25 propositions. Thisdocument, slightly revised and expanded to 28 sections,appeared in the denominational Yearbook of 1889. This wasnot continued in subsequent issues, but it was inserted againin the Yearbook in 1905 and continued to appear through1914. In response to an appeal from church leaders in Africafor "a statement [that] would help government officials andothers to a better understanding of our work," a committee of four, including the president of the General Conference, prepared a statement encompassing "the principal features"of belief as they "may be summarized." This statement of 22fundamental beliefs, first printed in the 1931 Yearbook,stood until the 1980 General Conference session replaced itwith a similar but more comprehensive, summarization in 27 paragraphs, published under the title "Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists."The present volume,
Seventh-day Adventists Believe...
, is based on these short summaries. They appear at the beginning of each chapter. In this book we present for our members, friends, and other interested persons, in anexpanded, readable, and practical manner, these doctrinalconvictions and their significance for Adventist Christians intoday's society. While this volume is not an officially votedstatement—only a General Conference in world sessioncould provide that—it may be viewed as representative of "the truth . . . in Jesus" (Eph. 4:21) that Seventh-dayAdventists around the globe cherish and proclaim.— iv
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We Gratefully Acknowledge . . .vTo the Readers of This Book . . .vii
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THE DOCTRINE OF GOD
Chapter 1The Word of God4Chapter 2The Godhead16Chapter 3God the Father 28Chapter 4God the Son36Chapter 5God the Holy Spirit58
THE DOCTRINE OF MAN
Chapter 6Creation68Chapter 7The Nature of Man78
THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION
Chapter 8The Great Controversy98Chapter 9The Life, Death and Resurrection of Christ106Chapter 10The Experience of Salvation118
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 11The Church134Chapter 12The Remnant and Its Mission152Chapter 13Unity in the Body of Christ170Chapter 14Baptism180Chapter 15The Lord's Supper 184Chapter 16Spiritual Gifts and Ministries206Chapter 17The Gift of Prophecy216
THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
Chapter 18The Law of God232Chapter 19The Sabbath248Chapter 20Stewardship268Chapter 21Christian Behavior 278Chapter 22Marriage and the Family294
THE DOCTRINE OF LAST THINGS
Chapter 23Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary312Chapter 24The Second Coming of Christ332Chapter 25Death and Resurrection348Chapter 26The Millennium and the End of Sin362Chapter 27The New Earth374Subject Index386
Unless indicated otherwise, the texts of Scripture quoted in this book are from The New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc.,Publishers.Texts credited to KJV are from the King James Version.Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible, Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977.Texts credited to NEB are from The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970.Reprinted by permission.Texts credited to NIV from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan BiblePublishers.Bible texts credited to RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946, 1952 © 1971, 1973.Bible texts credited to TEV are from the Good News Bible—Old Testament: Copyright American Bible Society 1976; New Testament: Copyright © American Bible Society1966, 1971, 1976.
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Verses marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971 Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Ill. Used by permission.The Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists assumes full responsibility for the accuracy of the camera- eady copy of this book. Editing,copy editing, and proofreading for this book were done under the direction of the Ministerial Association. Due to technical limitations vowel points and diacritical marks havenot been included when transliterating foreign words.First Printing, May 1988: 80,000Second Printing, June 1988: 100,000
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