Seventh-day Adventist

Grew from

Adventist

From

1863 AD

Origin

Battle Creek, Michigan

Confession

28 Fundamental Beliefs 1980 AD

Organised in 1863 out of the Millerite movement, whose expectation of Christ's return in 1844 had failed publicly. The group that became the Seventh-day Adventists reinterpreted rather than abandoned the date, and built one of the largest mission, medical and education networks of any Protestant body.

What marks it out

Saturday as the sabbath, kept from sunset to sunset. The investigative judgment, an account of what began in 1844 rather than what failed to. Ellen G. White's writings received as a continuing prophetic gift, tested by scripture rather than equal to it. A health teaching, largely vegetarian, that produced the sanatorium at Battle Creek, the modern breakfast cereal industry, and a measurably longer life expectancy that demographers still study.

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