The Adventists are an American Shiite (with several centers in our country) founded by William Miller (1782-1849), after his separation from the “Baptists.” Miller began his missionary life in 1833, and in 1844 he founded the first group, which, in 1860, took the name “Seventh Day Adventist” Church as its official name. Many people came after him, the most important of whom was Mrs. Ellen. C. White (1827-1915), who organized the conditions of this group and established its laws. It seems that the Seventh-day Adventists consider her an inspired messenger, equivalent to the “prophets of the Torah,” as they say in her: The gift of prophecy was manifested in White’s ministry. “As sent by the Lord, her writings are considered a continuous and reliable source of truth that provides the church with help, guidance, instruction, and correction…” (Basic Beliefs, 17) .

 Seventh-day Adventists rely on organization. At the top of the pyramid is the “General Symposium,” run by the head of a committee based in Washington. They say in the “Basic Doctrines”: “The consequence of sin is death.” But God...will grant the redeemed eternal life. Until that day, death is an unconscious state for all people” (25, see also: 26; and Ellen White, “The Great Struggle,” pp. 64 and 65). They call for two resurrections, the first is for the righteous only, and the second is “the resurrection of the non-righteous, which will happen after a thousand years.” This is undoubtedly a mixture of Judaism and ancient heresies, followed by twelve sections in the world organized into units, followed by seminars, and finally comes the local group or “church” managed by pastors with the assistance of the council. They focus greatly on the media. They own several publishing houses that publish periodicals, broadcast radio programs to the world from several radio stations they own, and organize evangelical lessons by correspondence.

 It is known that the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventists are not fixed and vary according to circumstances, and they have changed many of the teachings that they promulgated at the beginning of their emergence. In this article, we are concerned with the teachings that they still adhere to and promote, including:

• 1- Their belief that the Lord Jesus will return again in a short period that they specify (We read in “Basic Beliefs”: “The complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, combined with the present state of the world, indicates that the coming of the Messiah is imminent,” 24.) It is no secret that Miller predicted, several times, the time of the Lord's second coming, so he specified the year 1843 as the year accompanying its occurrence. When he was not successful in his claim, he postponed the date by one year, then returned and postponed it for another year. This certainly contradicts the Holy Scriptures, which called for waiting for the Day of the Lord with vigilance and vigilance, without specifying its time or saying “to watch for it” (Mark 13; Luke 12: 35-40; 21: 5-36; Matthew 24 and 25; Acts 1:7; and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12).
• 2- Consecrate them on Saturday instead of Sunday (Fundamental Doctrines, 19). We will address this in a special article... It is sufficient to point here to some verses that expose their deviation, and show that Sunday is the day on which the first Christians gathered to worship God (1 Corinthians 16: 1-2; Revelation 1: 9-11; see Also: Luke 24:28-43; John 20:19-26; Acts 2:1-2, 20:7,11).
• 3- They say that everything in the world is matter, and that the spirit or soul has no existence after death. And the dead have no feeling. It contradicts the clear teaching in which the Lord affirmed that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is “the God of the living and not the God of the dead” (Matthew 22:32; see what the Lord said to the thief: “Today you will be with me in paradise,” Luke 23:43; see also Philippians 1:21,23; 1 Thessalonians 4:14,17), and that the general resurrection is sudden and one-time, but the righteous and saints will be taken by the Lord “with Him” when He appears, and the wicked will be separated from Him into eternal fire (see Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Corinthians 15...).
• 4- Their rejection of infant baptism, Their baptism is limited to adults only, and they require that it be “preceded by learning the Bible and accepting its teachings” (Fundamental Beliefs, 14). They say in their book: “The Seventh-day Adventist Faith”: “Infants and young children are not prepared for baptism because they cannot choose regeneration (i.e., learning and repentance)” (page 325). This is a major oversight that was addressed in “My Parish” (3/1997), because infant baptism does not presuppose learning or repentance, because it is built on God’s salvation, which He freely granted to every person born in the world.
• 5- They celebrate the thanksgiving supper (the secret; they consider it symbolic) after washing the feet (Basic Beliefs, 15), once every three months. We read in their book “The Faith of Seventh-day Adventists”: “The Bible does not specify how many times the Lord’s Supper should be celebrated... Adventists have followed the practice of many Protestants of holding this divine obligation four times a year...” It seems to them that: “The Four-Year Plan is a compromise between a long-term celebration, such as once a year, for example” (see footnote No. 19, page 349; and it is no secret that their prophet, Ellen White, in her aforementioned book, calls the sacrifice of the Mass “the pagan sacrifice,” page 65). ). This is a distortion of the heritage, as the early Christians used to gather, especially every Sunday, to eat the true body and blood of the Lord (Acts 2:42; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34...), and among what Saint Basil the Great said in this regard: “We eat food four times a day... “A week - not a year - and we feel that this is little.”

 The mistakes of these Shiites do not stop there, as their many deviations are too narrow to mention here - including: they abstain “from the unclean foods specified in the Bible” (and they rely on Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14), and this contradicts the decisions of the apostles at the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:5-21); See also: Romans 14:14-17; Titus 1:15 and 16; 1 Timothy 4:1-5); They consider that those who will be saved when the Lord comes again are 144,000 (see: “The Seventh-day Adventist Faith,” footnote No. 3, page 635), and in their opinion they are Sabbath-keepers; They claim that they alone have received the gift of prophecy, and that they are the teachers of the world, and they have called for a warning to the world, and that no one except them lives in the spirit in this time... This is empty pride that contradicts the truth and does not deserve to be answered... These deviations, and others, show that those who They preferred “Sola Scriptura alone,” and built their beliefs on the ruins of heresies and heresies that appeared in history and were condemned by the Church. They contradict the truth declared by this book. It is no secret that every “spiritual building” cannot rise and rise if it is not founded on the truth of Jesus expressed in the Orthodox faith. So beware of their deviations and misguidance.