Adventists would like us to believe that what they teach is based on the Bible instead of Ellen White. Let's see if that statement is truthful.
John 3:14-16 (KJV) tells us:
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV) tells us:
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 (KJV) says:
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
According to Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, when a person dies, they just cease to exist. They just go out like a light bulb, and cease to exist. Their breath leaves them and that's it. Poof! They're gone. Nothing but dust. No soul. No spirit. Nothing but dust.
Since it is obvious that the body dies, if a believer's soul does not live on then the promise of John 3:14-16 would be an impossibility. By their very own words, Adventists have proven their unbelief.
When you take the Adventist equation of body + breath = living soul and remove the body through death, then the breath cannot equal a living soul. It needs the body!
In other words, the soul is not asleep, it is annihilated. So, in Adventist doctrine, there is no resurrection, but rather, a recreation hence the Adventist teaching about God keeping our 'blueprints' in His mind.
In John 5:24 (KJV) Jesus promises the believer,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Here Jesus is very clear that all who believe in Him have eternal life. Their body may die, which Ecclesiastes 7:1 tells us is better than ... the day of one's birth. Why? 2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV) tells us with confidence that to be "absent from the body" is to be "present with the Lord" -- not a "nothing" until the resurrection. And what can be better than being present with the Lord? Yet Adventism would attempt to void the clear teaching of 2 Corinthians 5:8 and claim that we just turn into dust -- nothing more. That is what Atheism teaches.
At the resurrection Christ will give us new bodies. How can He give them to us if we don't exist? And if we don't exist, how can we await the resurrection?
And John 3:15-16 (KJV) tells us:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus isn't saying that the person would eventually have eternal life, but rather that the person who believes in Him, has eternal life right then. That is the result of believing.
Adventism tries desperately to twist Scripture so they can deny this, but the Scripture clearly states that those who deny these promises will not receive eternal life. It is all about belief, not works.
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