By Pauly Fongemie
WEB MASTER
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITIONS
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISM
THE TWO HEART'S IMAGE
SOURCES USED
INTRODUCTION
In their book on cults, BATTLE OF THE ANGELS, Bob and Penny
Lord
wrote about an experience they had with an apostate Catholic who had
joined the Seventh-Day Adventists and who had become active in
recruitment, including the proselytizing of Catholics, such as the
Lords. When I read their account I was reminded once again that the
battle we fight is essentially against underworld powers and
principalities and just how successful Satan has been in leading astray
Catholics who are vulnerable at key points in their lives, leading them
into the nightmare of apostasy, or by positing the answer if they are
already losing the faith, in both cases, providing them with false hope
through membership in sects and cults or even mainline Protestant
Churches. The Lords, fortunately, did not fall victim to the
blandishments of the Adventist. So many good Catholic parents
have told me of their sorrow to learn that this has happened to one or
more of their children. A devout mother and father of ten
children said that all of their children have left the Church. All of
them! Some to other religions. Most of us are quite ignorant about some
of the
more active cults that pose as mainstream Protestantism, but are either
sects or cults or a bit of both. Actually any false religion is equally
to be avoided, but you might be asking yourself, just
what is a cult, what is a sect, as opposed to mainline religions, per
se? A good place to
always begin a discussion is with defining terms so that we are clear
about
the topic at hand.
DEFINITIONS
Mainstream Protestant Churches
These are the organized groups that originally broke off from
the only
True Church, the Holy Catholic Church, during the Protestant revolution
in Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries. Some of the better known
are Episcopalians [Anglicans in England], Lutherans and Presbyterians.
Most mainline denominations do not actively evangelize. When we speak
of a mainline Protestant Church, we refer only to those which maintain
a belief in the Divinity of Jesus Christ at the very least, along with
the immortality of the human soul. In general, belief in Heaven and
Hell is to some degree consistent, although there is a disparity on the
means, that is, whether Baptism is necessary and what constitutes good
works, or even if those are necessary also.
Sects
Sects
are smaller groups that broke away from the original
Protestants, some of which are Congregationalists, Methodists, and the
older Puritans, and also the Salvation Army. Sects are generally
organized around a specific
grievance, that erupted within a mainline Protestant affiliation, such
as the Puritans, who refused to celebrate Christmas, for instance. They
believed that [once again] they were purifying matters as did the first
Protestant Churches. Like
most mainline Protestant groups, sects hold a belief in Jesus Christ as
Divine and the immortality of the human soul. The notion of Heaven and
Hell and how or if one arrives there can vary from vague to specific,
and occasionally not at all, such as Unitarianism, where even
the belief in Christ as Divine is not a requirement strictly speaking-----although
most Unitarians do believe in Christ.
Baptists, which
are classified as Evangelicals, that is, are bible-based only
proselytizers, have origins going back to John Wycliffe
in the 14th century and or Jan Hus of the 15th, and are more difficult
to
place under the current streams of the
multiplication of Baptist
branches, each with its own peculiar doctrine. Initially they were
strictly classified with the mainline Protestants because their roots
are
directly from the Protestant revolt-----note,
I refuse to use the term, reformation, simply because the heresies that
grew exponentially were a deformation
of the Word of God and not a
reformation. Today, with the proliferation of sub-groups of Baptists,
usually small and formed around an exaggeration of one aspect of
doctrine,
many Baptists have taken on the characteristics of sects proper, and in
some cases even cults, which are defined below. Baptists have
characteristics of
both the mainline and the sect in general. For instance some
denominations of Baptists have divinity schools as do the
mainline Churches, which have an ordination process that is overseen by
some authority and a number still maintain still a recognized
"ordained"
clergy organized
in a hierarchy. However, there are multiple Baptists sects that do not.
A layman or lay woman simply
claims that he or she has been called by God to preach.
Sects tend to control doctrinal ideas substantially more narrowly than
mainline
Churches, one of the reasons for the formation of the sect in the first
place. Since all religions except the Holy Catholic faith are false, by
exerting control on doctrinal ideas, they make it more difficult for
their members to learn the truth. Only the Catholic Church has a
mandate through Peter and his successors [the keys of Heaven] from
Christ to preserve and disseminate His saving truth as
revealed to His Church.
Examples of other sects are Quakers, the Amish, and the Church of the
Nazarene.
Cults
The word cult, is derived from the Latin, cultus, which is the worship
rendered to God and the veneration of the Saints. The meaning of culture
is derived from it. All cultures are based on some religion, at least
in the beginning, whether Catholic,
pagan, bizarre or extreme forms such as the Aztecs with human
sacrifice, or other. But this
is not the definition of a "cult" as it has come to be known today.
Even cultures that claim to not have a basis in a religion religiously
enforce this belief. In fact the willful disassociation from religion
itself is a form of religion in that it is the underlying motivation
for all of the society's activity and organization, and this, then,
is what those loyal to the renunciation of religion place their
trust and faith in. "Their god is their belly": if not materialism per se,
something akin to it. Atheists are very religious, they rigorously
place their faith in there being no God, a belief that takes more
faith, so to speak, than actually believing in God, simply because to
deny His Existence is a formidable task since evidence of His creation
is all around; simply put, the atheist has to deny reality in order to
claim that it is he who is the realist.
"Cults" as we use the term here, are bodies of variant
Protestantism [not the hippie commune
type
popularized in the 1960s] that broke off from sects and are formed from
the ideas of the founder or spiritual leader. Usually these splinter
groups are based on the leader's imaginative or unusual interpretation
of their own bible, which was previously altered to suit the
preferences of the former sect, and the Protestant bibles before this.
While
the cults of the Protestant kind recognize Jesus Christ, He may or not
be thought to be Divine and or not a member of the Trinity, if there is
a Trinity belief. End times
doctrine, usually quite specific, in contradiction to the words of
Christ Himself, are very important, even central to the system of
dogma. Sacraments tend to have less of a role than they do in sects and
mainline Protestant Churches. Cults in general train their lay
adherents to
evangelize, some more strenuously than others. One of the methods of
acquiring converts is to take advantage of persons who have suffered a
traumatic event and may be particularly vulnerable, less able to
resist the lure of a promise of happiness along with sympathy from cult
members. Another
tactic is financial incentive, which takes various forms from aid to
promises of gain, which is what occurred in the encounter the Lords had
with the Adventist. A more subtle and increasingly used method of
winning over Catholics is to invite them to simply pray with the group
or to "merely study the bible". Catholics are told that they can still
remain Catholics but come to their meetings and study groups. Of course
any Catholic who believes this is already ignorant enough to be
persuaded eventually that the Catholic Church is a false religion. This
kind of Catholic has been inoculated against the Catholic Faith, "whole
and entire" within his own Novus Ordo parish by some poor, ignorant
priest who teaches universal salvation de facto if not de jure.
Cult members are more insular than those who belong
to sects, much more watchful over the members who show signs of
straying. The Amish sect is an exception because it, too, is very
mindful that they must be a people that remain apart. In cults an early
and continual indoctrination is considered vital. The
immortality of the soul can be nebulous, left open to interpretation by
individual sub-groups, or defined in such manner that only the adepts
or high personages may gain merit. Cults of the Protestant kind are
actually not strictly Christian, as considered by mainline and sect
Protestants, because their idea of the Trinity is either strange or
incoherent, and thus most Protestants, who are at least material
heretics themselves, consider these cults off-beat heretics. The most
prominent example of this is Mormonism.
[A material heretic is one in fact,
if not by ill will. A formal
heretic is one who intends to be one, that is, is aware his doctrine is
considered heretical, but persists in pride and audacity to resist
correction.]
One of the distinguishing features between sects [and mainliners]
and
cults is the channel of religious authority by which interpretation is
handed down. Cults are largely lay operations, although there is a
spiritual head or leader; but members have a direct opening to personal
messages from the Holy Spirit [if the Trinity is a belief] or whatever
the Supreme Being is, thus in essence rendering each sincere adherent
his own pope so to speak. [The exception here is the Mormon cult, which
is divided into multiple forms.] And yet, many cults also demand
"doctrinal
purity" which is in conflict with the other tenet. But then, since they
are confused at the very least to begin with, managing to reconcile
irrational ideas with one another, this inconsistency does not appear
to be much of a deterrent. In the mainline Churches and their splinter
sects, the religious authorities disseminate doctrine, although as in
all Protestant groups of this classification private judgment can and
will supersede any such pronouncements of doctrine. In practice this
may not be much of a distinction if the result is the same as it is
with a cult, and certainly de facto
this is correct, but we are speaking
formally of the organized intention.
Some well known, very active cults today are the Mormons as we already
mentioned, the Jehovah's
Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and the Seventh-Day
Adventists. Of the four, Mormons or the
Church of Latter Day Saints is the most complicated in doctrine and
organization.
While every source we consulted places them in the cult category,
Mormons have one characteristic that is a hallmark of sects, a clergy
or sorts, complete with bishops.
However, by almost every other criteria, The Latter Day Saints are a
cult, so much so
that doctrinal deviations can cause banishment.
For the present we are going to look at only one, the
Adventists, but before we do we need to briefly look at Charismatics, a
special sub-category of cult; we say special sub-category because
strictly speaking, a charismatic can be anyone with a particular
preference for emotionalism in worship and may belong to a mainline
group, a sect or a cult or even call himself a Catholic. All
charismatics think they do not need doctrinal statements per se,
for the Holy
Spirit is their own special guide and as such they enjoy personal
infallibility, which is channeled through an interpreter, if the
message comes in the form of "tongues". The leader
usually serves as a facilitator for the emotional experience, rather
than as a
traditional cleric. Charismatics have a preference for speaking in
tongues and in the extreme forms, have been known to use snakes in
their religious services and more strange practices, such as grunting
like pigs and so forth. Charismania, as I like to call it is a direct
form of
Satanism although only a few of the practitioners are aware of this. It
has its roots in the modern age, as late as the 1950s, to destroy true
doctrine by
resorting to a false understanding of the Apostolic age of speaking in
tongues, etc. The Apostles had to evangelize many cultures that spoke
their own language or dialect and they had to do it over a
comparatively short time. One of the charisms [hence the root of the
name Charismatic] given to the first Bishops of the Catholic Church was
the ability to speak in tongues.
When the Apostles
were given the charism of tongues, it was for evangelization,
not power and spiritual frenzy: By speaking in tongues, the Church
means
that the person with this charism, can either understand other real
languages
and or dialects once unknown to him, or can speak in other languages
that
he previously could not, for the sake of evangelization, to convert
large
numbers of people at one time as happened at Pentecost, when the
Apostles
received tongues of flame that descended upon them. This did not last
indefinitely
and was not a continued charism as the Church grew and had adherents in
every language. This gift is sometimes referred to as Glossolalia.
The "speaking
in tongues"
that occurs at Charismatic revival sessions and/or Masses [if
purportedly Catholic] is entirely
different. It is an unintelligible gibberish, not valid languages or
dialects, with the same stock phrases, consisting of poly-syllabic
sounds, repeated
over and over in different patterns of six that in turn form a pattern,
and the people caught up in the hysteria follow suit. Then since it is
obviously a sham, someone who claims the power of prophecy has to
"interpret"
for the duped. In order not to be proven a fraud later on by actually
making
a real prophecy-sounding pronouncement, which could be later disproved,
that person usually says some banal, regularly occurring ideal or
action
or otherwise readily known prescription, such as "God wants us to love
one another." It takes all that gibberish for this? It is not
banal
that we are to love one another as "He has loved us", but it is, to use
this method of bringing it anew to our attention. The danger is that in
the hands of a major huckster who wants to lead Catholics astray, the
interpreted
prophecy could be a heresy, for instance.
Father LeBar [See
sources below] had another sub-category, that of Pseudo-Christian
groups of which the Church of Scientology is one, along with
Children of God, a cult that sprang from an ex-Baptist minister; The
Way International; World-wide Church of God; Church Universal and
Triumphant; and the Unification Church. Father classified these
together because they use very deceptive tactics; they also tend to be
New Age leading to a one-world universal religion that is anything but
Catholic.
Now we will examine
Seventh-Day Adventism.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM
Based primarily on Chapter 10 of THE CHAOS OF CULTS, by J.K. Van
Baalen, 1931.
William Miller is the founder of the movement that eventually
became the
cult that denounces all Christians who observe the Sabbath on the first
day of the week. Miller was a fallen-away Baptist.
Miller, a farmer, was fifty years old when he began to preach, thinking
that Divine Providence was leading him through prophecies given to him.
He died on Dec. 20, 1849, at the age of sixty-eighth. He and his
followers were accused of financially profiting from their preaching,
and especially
on those who expected the Lord to return in 1843 and, subsequently, in
October 1844. This was in all likelihood a mischaracterization of
his motive,
but his prophecies of the date of Christ's return was certainly a
colossal
error. He claimed that he was disappointed in the failure of Christ's
non-return as predicted, but he never adequately explained how or why
God would deliberately mislead him; perhaps to his credit, he did not
play the willful sham dreaming up a plausible explanation. His
followers did not seem to labor over this blunder and just
went on as if nothing was fundamentally wrong with the underpinning of
their belief system which stemmed from a lack of understanding of the
meaning of Daniel 8:14 in the Old Testament.
In fact, the Millerites, as his adherents were called at the time,
proceeded to compound one error with another, rather than regroup and
examine their premise:
Hiram Edson, of New York state claimed to have a vision the morning
after "the great disappointment." In this vision he saw Christ
standing at the altar in Heaven, from which he concluded that Miller
had been right as to the time mentioned by Daniel, but wrong as to the
place. The words, "Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings and
mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," referred to a cleaning
of the heavenly sanctuary. [Francis D. Nichol, The
Midnight Cry, 3rd ed. p. 457.] He did not explain why Heaven
needed cleaning but another follower would supply for this defect as we
shall presently see.
This
teaching was taken over by the later Seventh-Day Adventists [referred
to from now on S.D.A.] whose beginning dates from this new
interpretation, according to Nichol. [Op. cit., p. 457.]
Thus, "they have chosen to emphasize that the 'major mistake' of
the
Millerites was in their interpretation, not in setting the time.
The S.D.A., according to its own men, began with this new
interpretation of the 2300 days, and that this interpretation rests
upon an alleged vision of one person.
Equally arbitrary is the choice of the second foundation stone of
S.D.A. According to Nichol it was "Father Bates," one of the early
converts to Millerism, and a captain at sea, whose "light was the
seventh-day Sabbath." Elder James White [the S.D.A. Church had been
formally organized in 1860] endorsed just eight years later the
view of Bates and others. To him the three Angels mentioned in
Revelation 14:6-11 in their "three messages symbolize the three parts
of the genuine movement," that is, the genuine advent movement as begun
by Miller.
Ellen G. White, who became the "prophetess" of S.D.A., wife of Elder
James White, wrote in a similar vein. According to her, Miller and his
associates "fulfilled prophecy." They claimed to have had a clear
understanding of the message of the first two Angels, but not of the
third Angel. Mrs. White and others were willing to receive this also,
as a prophecy, the third Angel's message was a change of the day of the
Sabbath from Sunday back to Saturday.
The Catholic Church and
subsequent Protestants hold Sunday to be the Sabbath of the New
Testament or covenant because the Old covenant had been superseded by
the new, that is Christ, the new Adam, Who arose from the tomb on
Sunday. The Jews and
or Israelites of the Old covenant had and have their sabbath on
Saturday and they do not believe in the Divinity of Christ, nor do they
honor Christ.
Bob and Penny Lord expanded on Van Baalen, informing us that with few
exceptions Adventists do not believe in the immortality of the soul,
rather that it is buried, too, but then somehow are able to reconcile
this with the belief that on Christ's return the body will be immortal
again, for the just only. Apparently the nonjust in Hell are not
immortal, that is suffer for eternity. Moreover, the S.D.A. observes
Jewish Kosher law, as if the Old covenant rules were still
binding. But here, they pick and choose also, such as not observing
Passover, remaining consistently
inconsistent. Like most Protestants the bible is the only source of
doctrine from God, called "sola scriptura".
Mrs. White
also claimed a vision regarding the Sabbath. And thus the change of the
cult's
name from Millerites to Seventh-Day. The Advent aspect will be
explained shortly.
Peculiar Doctrines of S.D.A.
S.D.A. deviates from sect Christianity specifically. For this
reason it will not be necessary to append a list of statements by
S.D.A. writers on various points of doctrine. When we have considered
these particulars we have discussed S.D.A. in essence:
1. The doctrine of the soul-sleep
after death.
"The state to which we are reduced by death is one of silence,
inactivity and entire unconsciousness, between death and the
resurrection the dead sleep," which contradicts several passages of the
new Testament, such as Luke 16 :22-30; Philippians 1 :23, 24 and 2
Corinthians 5 :1-8; Psalm 73 :24; Revelation 6 :9, 10.
2. The doctrine of annihilation of
the wicked.
"The positive teaching of Holy Scripture is that sin and sinners will
be blotted out of existence. There will be a clean universe again when
the great controversy between Christ and Satan is ended." This is in
contradiction of Romans 2:6-9, Revelation 20 :13; also to John 3 :26,
Revelation 20 :10.
3. The third doctrine which is peculiar to S.D.A. is in reality their
foremost and great point of doctrine, remaining their private
property so to speak. I refer to their view
of the atonement.
It is evident that when we discuss Theosophy, Spiritism, and other
cults which do not recognize the Bible as the inspired and final
revelation from God, we can do little by citing Scripture. The bible
has
no authority to the mind of adherents of such cults. However, the
matter becomes different when we look at the S.D.A. as this belief
system claims to be based upon the bible as the word of God. Therefore,
it is sufficient to show that their teachings are contrary to
Scripture, and are in many instances the result of hasty and
superficial quoting from the bible.
It is from their peculiar tenets concerning the atonement that this
sect is named Adventists. Their deviation
is in reference to the second coming or advent of our Lord.
It is here that S.D.A. deviates most from Scriptural teaching.
- Miller
had inferred from Daniel 8: 14 that Christ must return on October 22,
1844. And Mrs. White desired to vindicate the movement which Miller had
inaugurated. Hence her predicament. She found a way out of the
difficulty. Miller, so she maintained, had indeed been correct. If
Daniel 8:14 showed that Christ must have returned in 1844, well, then
He did return in 1844, but not on earth, just elsewhere, and where you
ask? Why Heaven! How?
Heaven, according to Mrs. White, is a counterpart of the typical
sanctuary on earth with its two compartments, the holy place and the
holy of holies. In the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary Christ
pleaded for eighteen centuries in behalf of penitent sinners. "Yet
their sins remained upon the book of records." Christ's atonement had
remained unfinished. There was a task yet to be accomplished, to wit,
the removal of sins from the sanctuary in Heaven.
Now, as upon the great day of atonement the high priest entered into
the inner sanctuary to complete, to add to the daily sacrifices for sin
offered in the other part of the temple, so Christ began His work of
completing His atonement for sin in the inner sanctuary of Heaven in
1844. He thereby cleansed the sanctuary from sin.
And how did Christ do this? In 1844 He began His "investigative
judgment." He examined all His people, and showed the Father those
"who, through repentance of sin and faith in Christ, are entitled to
the benefits of the atonement."
It remained only to draw the comparison between the earthly and the
heavenly holy of holies still further. On the day of atonement there
was a scapegoat who was burdened with the sins of the people and then
sent into the wilderness. This scapegoat, so Mrs. White taught,
typified Satan, the author of sin, "upon whom the sins of the truly
penitent will finally be placed."
- This
speculation was duly rounded out with the assertion that when Christ
had entered the heavenly sanctuary, the door was closed. After that no
one could be saved except by receiving the heavenly sanctuary dogma.
This, in other words "Unless you accept our doctrine there is no hope
for you. We alone have the truth."
They never explain how it that
they and they alone are infallible and Peter, who was given the keys to
Heaven by Christ is not or why it is that Christ misled the Apostles
and their successors for almost 2000 years, which is actual, real
blasphemy when you think about it!
Although
the foregoing teaching is fundamental to S.D.A., it is not flung into
our faces nearly as much as the doctrine from which the system derives
the other half of its name. It is not Adventism pure and simple, it is
Seventh-Day Adventism. This is the fourth point on which S.D.A. takes
issue with all other Christians, as we have already alluded to,
the SABBATH.
In one of her frequent visions Mrs. White saw the ark in
Heaven, for surely she thought there must be an ark in Heaven's
counterpart of the
tabernacle. In the ark she saw the two tables of stone which contained
the Ten Commandments; and as she looked, behold, the third [the fourth
in some Protestant placement] Commandment stood out above the others,
for it was surrounded by the others, including the first and second,
disregarding the intended hierarchy given to Moses by God. It had been
neglected more than the other nine. How? It was evident. The Sabbath
had not been kept holy. It had, in fact, been destroyed. A nasty
Sunday, with wicked New England "blue laws," had been substituted for
the Lord's Sabbath.
In her determination that Christians should return to the proper
observance of Jehovah's Sabbath, Mrs. White began to look into the
history of the Sabbath in Christianity and she discovered that the
change happened with Catholicism. Mrs. White, therefore, duly
concluded that Sunday observance is "the mark of the beast." Since the
Pope is the head of the Church he is identified by her as the evil
culprit, which she saw a reference to the first beast in Revelation
13; the second beast is the United States government because this
government "in spite of its youthfulness, innocence and gentleness"
speaks ''as a dragon" when it makes "Sunday laws."
Mrs. White identified this beast with the "little horn" in Daniel 7:25
and said that horn meant the papacy. It is from this that the
staunch anti-Catholicism that still taints the Adventists is derived,
although for public relations purposes the stronger forms have been
mitigated at present:
In his work on Adventists and their hatred of Catholicism [see sources
listed below], Reinder Bruinsma writes "The desire to win Catholics to
Adventism was a major factor in the effort of church leaders to keep
Adventist literature, destined for the public at large, free from
expressions Roman Catholics might find offensive. Stylistic changes
were made in such classics as Uriah Smith's commentaries on Daniel and
the Revelation.
"The largely negative, Catholic focus of "source books" for "Bible
Students" diminished considerably. In 1930 a council of Adventist
editors concluded that "dangers are to be avoided" in the presentation
of sensitive topics, such as the role the papacy is expected to play in
future events. The editors spent most of their time on problems related
to reaching Catholics. It was pointed out that Adventist literature
contained much that warns non-Catholics against Catholics, "but very
little that is intended primarily to convert Catholics themselves." And
further, that courtesy was needed in the treatment of "subjects
offensive to Catholics, and that abuse and derision have no place in
Seventh-day Adventist literature." [p. 279.]
We must not allow this PR facade to allay our willingness to confront
S.D.A. error when a suitable forum presents itself. Bruinsma, a
historian for the cult is quite open about the roots of the group's
origins in hatred of Catholicism and the purgation of language and a
less confrontational approach does not mitigate the prejudice
that permeates the cult's teachings and the indoctrination inculcated
into its adherents at a young age. Any official moderation is strictly
a tactic, although some individual Adventists may not personally claim
any bias. To the extent that this "deviancy" exists, says more about
the
departure from "orthodoxy" of the adherent than the cult itself.
Another aspect of S.D.A. doctrine is the blatant heresy that Christ's
sacrifice on the Cross did not fully atone for sin. Then, too, they
disregard the teaching of Christ in the New Testament that there is but
Baptism for the remission of sins, with the words of Christ clearly
providing the exact formula to be used. Adventists reBaptize apostates
from other Christian religions who are converting to their cult.
Among the numerous oddities of their beliefs and practices are the
following:
"During the whole period of the millennium the world is without
inhabitants," and Satan will be "confined to a desolate earth for one
thousand years." Such doctrines, like those of soul-sleep and
annihilation of the wicked [no souls in eternity in Hell], are arrived
at by the simple process of quoting one or two texts without making the
slightest effort to view them in the light of other passages; in other
words are due to lack of systematic insight.
In its zeal for the seventh day S.D.A. goes far beyond the limits
of sound and sober sense. In its official periodicals it denounces
other Christians in language such as:
"But what the forces of tyranny really want in this country is
religious favoritism and monopoly for a certain group of
religionists. . . . When the American patriots divorced church
matters from civil government in this country, they planted the
standard of religious freedom upon the solid rock of eternal truth."
Cited in Liberty magazine,
Vol. 41, No. 3, Third Quarter, 1946, p. 16. [This declaration is a
heresy from the actual truth taught by Catholicism.]
That all who stood and stand for Sunday observance and "hallowing" of
the day are tyrants and opponents of religious liberty, including those
authors of liberty so much praised in this same paragraph (they
certainly enforced Sabbath observance on Sunday) . . . that they are
headed for destruction . . . sunday observance is the "mark of the
Beast . . .'
Having said this, as individuals they are to be commended because
- They
fight successfully for the sanctity of the home, the family, and
marriage, and oppose worldliness in entertainment, dress, and lodge
membership [Masons].
- They
put most, if not all, other denominations to shame by their very large
per capita financial giving.
But
we must never forget that this full-blown cult was eventually
"born" in a vicious hatred of Catholicism and they consider us among
these who are wicked, to be annihilated.
THE IMAGE
OF THE TWO HEARTS
We selected the image of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate
Heart,
because these are the two final mercies God has given to those who
belong to Him, in end times, the devotion of which is both grace and
remedy. One might think that St. Michael would be a most appropriate
choice and indeed his image would; but because Jesus Christ has asked
for devotion to His Mother's Immaculate Heart be accorded full
privileges as it were, in the triumph of her Immaculate Heart, this
double image of the Two Hearts was used
instead.
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SOURCES USED
1. CULTS, BATTLE OF THE ANGELS, Bob and Penny Lord, 1997: No
material
was quoted or used directly; the work served as an overview for the
web master after reading the other material because the authors are
favorites
of mine and I have come to trust their judgment in matters similar to
the task at hand here. Because various sources assign different
religious bodies to one classification or another and were written some
time ago, I wanted to learn if a more recent work could offer fresh
insight, which the Lord book did, yet the authors confirmed the overall
classification scheme of the other books listed here. The Lord book can
be ordered by calling 1-800-633-2484.
2. THE CHAOS OF CULTS, J.K. Van Baalen,
William Eardmans Publishing, Michigan, 1931. Out of print.
3. CULTS, SECTS, AND THE NEW AGE, Fr. James LeBar, Our Sunday Visitor, 1989 with Imprimatur. This work focuses on
New Age, pagan influences and does not address the Adventists. Still
available.
4. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST ATTITUDES TOWARD ROMAN CATHOLICISM, 1844-1865,
Reinder Bruinsma,
Andrews University Press, Michigan, 1994. Available at Amazon.
5. CONCISE CATHOLIC DICTIONARY, Robert Broderick, M.A., Comp.,
Catechetical Guild Educational Society, Minnesota, 1944 with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, 1943. Out of print.
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