Seventh-Day Adventist

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

BAGUIO CITY

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT

OF THE REQUIREMENT IN

THEOLOGY IV

TITLE:

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST

SUBMITTED TO:

MR. ANTONIO S. CONDEZ

SUBMITTED BY:

DELANNA ARANIKA L. RIGOS

DATE:

FEBRUARY 17,2016

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Millennialist Protestant Christian denomination that was founded in the 1860s in the USA. The name Seventh-day Adventist is based on the Church's observance of the "biblical Sabbath" on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. "Advent" means coming and refers to their belief that Jesus Christ will soon return to this earth.

Seventh-day Adventists differ in only four areas of beliefs from the mainstream Trinitarian Christian denominations. These are the Sabbath day, the doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary, the status of the writings of Ellen White, and their doctrine of the second coming and millennium.

The Seventh-day Adventists share most of their beliefs with the mainstream Christian churches, but have some extra beliefs of their own: CREATION, SALVATION, THE REMNANT, THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY, THE SABBATH, PROPHECY, DEATH and MILLENNIALISM.

Seventh-day Adventists believe in a literal and historical six-day creation. The Adventist doctrine of salvation is an entirely conventional one of salvation by grace through faith, although it is surrounded with some ideas that are outside the Christian mainstream. The remnant is a church that has the duty of keeping faith in Jesus and obedience to God's commandments alive in this time when many people have abandoned true faith. This remnant announces the arrival of the judgment hour, proclaims salvation through Christ, and heralds the approach of the second coming. The great controversy is the battle between Satan and Christ. Humanity is involved in this battle and should choose Christ.

The correct understanding of the ministration in the heavenly sanctuary is the foundation of our faith said by Ellen G. White, Evangelism The Old Testament teaches that the Aaronic priests ministered within a sanctuary. That sanctuary (a tabernacle or a temple) was a man-made version of the sanctuary that God created in Heaven, which is the Temple of God in Heaven; the place where God lives. Adventists believe that Christ, as the high priest of the new covenant, ministers in the heavenly sanctuary.

The heavenly sanctuary has two areas - the holy place and the most holy place. When Christ went from Earth to Heaven he went into the holy place. Adventists believe that after 2300 years (in 1844), Christ went into the most holy place to cleanse it before his second coming on Earth, and that while he is doing that, the Holy Spirit is working to cleanse God's people. Christ works in the heavenly sanctuary as both priest and sacrifice. His work in the heavenly sanctuary is a work of investigative judgment which reveals which of the dead are righteous and should be resurrected at the second coming, and which of the living are worthy of Heaven. Those who pretended to be followers of God, but whose lives were not righteous, will be discovered by this investigation.