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28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

 

Seventh-day Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and hold certain fundamental beliefs to be the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. These beliefs, as set forth here, constitute the church’s understanding and expression of the teaching of Scripture. We are currently going through a study of our fundamental beliefs together from time to time at our prayer meetings on Wednesday night from 6:30 to 7:30.  Come and join us then as we praise our savior through song, testimony, prayer request, and study.

Below you will find a list of our 28 fundamental beliefs.  For each fundamental belief we will be memorizing a verse that supports that fundamental belief that is also included in the list below.  Also included in the list are links to each fundamental belief to the corresponding webpage on the Seventh-day Adventist website and to the online book - What Seventh-day Adventist Believe.  The online book is an excellent read as each chapter contains generous textual references to each fundamental belief.

 

Fundamental Belief

Memory Verse

Links

1. The Holy Scriptures

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

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2. Trinity

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Matthew 28:19

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3. Father

9 He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. John 14:9

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4. Son

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Philippians 2:5-6

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5. Holy Spirit

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John 15:26

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6. Creation

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

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7. Nature of humanity

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness Genesis 1:26

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8. The Great Controversy

17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17

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9. The Life, Death and Resurrection of Christ

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. John 3:16

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10. The Experience of Salvation

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1 Peter 1:23

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11. Growing in Christ

18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18

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12. The Church

10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10

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13. The Remnant and its Mission

 

 

14. Unity in the Body of Christ

 

 

15. Baptism

 

 

16. The Lord’s supper

 

 

17. Spiritual Gifts and Ministries

 

 

18. The Gift of Prophecy

 

 

19. The Law of God

 

 

20. The Sabbath

 

 

21. Stewardship

 

 

22. Christian Behavior

 

 

23. Marriage and the Family

 

 

24. Christ’s ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary

 

 

25. The Second Coming of Christ

 

 

26. Death and Resurrection

 

 

27. The Millennium and the End of Sin

 

 

28. The New Earth