7th day false salvation

Salvation issues

At first glance, The 7th day Adventist organization appears to lack clarity regarding the means of salvation. Neither their Statement of Faith nor the Declaration of Principles contains an un-ambiguous statement of “justification by faith alone,” but when you look at the below, you find SDA holds on to some mixture of faith and works and a lot of error about salvation, it preaches a false gospel. (1)

SDA falsely teach that a person’s ultimate salvation will be determined by the outcome of the Investigative Judgment.  This doctrine was never taught before in the history of the church. A teaching that beginning on October 22, 1844: Investigative Judgment of all believer’s lives.  During this judgment, Adventists teach, believer’s names come up before God.  If a believer has sinned that sin is marked down by a recording angel in heaven.  That sin goes against the believer in the judgment.  If a believer confesses that sin, “pardon” is written against that sin, but the sin remains on the books of record.  Every single sin must be confessed to have “pardon” written by it.  When a believer’s name comes up in this Investigative Judgment, God will weigh the good works against the sins.  A believer never knows when God may come to his name in this judgment.  When God looks at the believer’s life, Adventist’s teach, if those sins that were confessed and had been “pardoned” were not perfectly overcome, they will go against the believer.  Bottom line, an Adventist must perfectly overcome their sin in order to stand before God.  They are taught by their prophetess that they must stand before a holy God without Jesus as their mediator.  Their prophetess Ellen G. White says, “Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator” (The Great Controversy, p. 425).  

Needless to say, all of this contradicts the New Testament gospel of grace.  

❗The Bible teaches that believers never will enter a judgment for their salvation (John 5:24) and that there is no condemnation for a believer (Romans 8:1). Link.  The Bible teaches that when we confess our sins, they do not remain anywhere before God, they are forgiven and blotted out, wiped away!  (See 1 John 1:8-9; Isaiah 43:25 and 44:22).  Link 

The Bible teaches that Jesus is now always and "will never stop being" a believer’s mediator (between the saved believer and God) (Hebrews 7:25). Link 

We stand before God redeemed not by any merit of our own nor because of any works we have done, but by Jesus fully finished work on the cross for us which we trust in alone for our salvation. (Titus 3:5, Romans 3:28, Ephesians 2:8-9). Link  (2) 

On Judgment Day the believer will not stand as a criminal before God about their sins, but will instead stand before the Bema Rewards seat. All the good things they did as a servant of Christ will be rewarded, and the useless things will be a loss. Scripture is clear on this.

Judgment seat of Christ 

Judgment of believers works 

Will God punish evil deeds of believers 

A Trip to Heaven  Part1. Part2. Part3. Part4*

As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel to you than that you have received [from the Apostles in Scripture], let him be accursed" (Gal. 1:9)

What is the biblical Gospel and how do people get saved?

How to Examine Yourself 

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Footnotes

(1) GotQuestions

(2) ex Adventist