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    The Seventh-Day Adventists Essay

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    Seventh-day Adventists The Seventh-day Adventists are one of the many different branches of Christianity. The Adventists came about during the 19th century and began with the “Millerite Movement” (“Seventh-Day Adventists”, 2013). The movement was started by an American Baptist preacher by the name of William Miller, who believed that the Second Coming - the return of Christ to Earth - would occur between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844 (“Seventh-Day Adventism”, 2004). This prediction was largely

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    What are Branch Davidians

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    religious group that formed from a schism in the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists originating in the 1950s. The Branch is most widely known for the siege of its Mount Carmel Center compound near Waco, Texas in 1993. Since the siege there has been mass speculation on the final outcome of the conflict and the actions of Federal Agencies responding to the incident to include the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard. The siege lasted fifty one days and resulted in the death of the Branch Davidian’s leader

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    Health evangelism is the good news that Jesus makes people healthier. Health evangelism is Christ centered evangelism integrated with a health program. The health component of health evangelism contains information regarding the risks associated with unhealthy living and provides behavior change strategies designed to correct bad habits and addictions. The evangelistic component of health evangelism introduces people to Jesus. Jesus provides the power to change. Lasting behavior change is impossible

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    Some things that i found out about Adventism, was that they are also called the seventh-day Adventism. The Adventism moved to upstate New York in the 1840s, they started moving because of the cause and effect of the millerite movement. All this happened between the revivals of the religious, also know as the “Second Great Awakening”. During the time of religious revivals a baptist preacher “William Miller” had predicted something that was going to happen. While he was reading Daniel 8:14, he predicted

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    Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists “The early Adventist Church emerged from a climate of religious revival in the Northeastern United States”, (Lechleitner, 2013). Its founder was the late William Miller, (Slick, n.d.). The Church was founded based on the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus, (Church, 2013). The Seventh-Day Adventism is a Christian faith with multiple fundamental beliefs such as the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the day in which God decided to rest after creating the Earth. For the Seventh-Day

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    it all comes down to how each church translates the word. Seventh Day Adventist is a type of Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, which is Saturday. William Miller, S. S. Snow, Joseph Bates, James White, and Mrs. Ellen G. White founded Seventh Day Adventists. Ellen White has several books over the Seventh Day Adventist and her writings are still held in power by the Church. One of her writings, 28 Fundamental

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    where Elijah overcame the prophets of Baal. On a side note, this Mount Carmel was different from the one involved in the Branch Davidian inferno. Houteff did not want to break away from the Seventh-day Adventism and continued to view his evangelistic message as directed to the Adventist church. Seventh-day Adventism continued to play a major role in the theology of the Davidians though their relationship was bitter. The Davidian sect grew and although Houteff died in 1955, his wife Florence became

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    The Adventists believe in a fourth-coming Second Advent of Christ. One of those people who still believed in the coming of the rapture, was Ellen G. White. Her and many others officially founded the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 1863. She is known to establish many of the church's beliefs. Unlike most other Christians denominations, the Adventist attend church on Saturdays. From night fall on Friday until night fall on Saturday, no work should be done. They take pride on this day for rest and

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    and his followers were known as Millerites. Later in 1854, J.N. Andrews, Miller, Joseph Bates, and Ellen G. and James Springer White created the official Seventh Day Adventist Church. The official name of Seventh Day Adventist was not officially put into place until 1863 at the first conference and formation of the Seventh Day Adventist(SDA) Church on May 21. By the early 1870’s SDA began to send missionaries to Europe and Australia. In 1849, the first SDA newspaper was printed in Middletown, Connecticut

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    that list is the College of Atlantic which caught my attention. Why? The school offers only one major program in Human Ecology and all students in the college are subject to it but in a different way (Young et al, 2006). As opposed to Southern Adventist University a traditional cafeteria -style. The atmosphere of the campus is exceptional because of the surrounding sea Hence, . “The world is not divided by major”. “Neither is College of Atlantic”. With this premise, the school deliberately accepts

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