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Seventh-day Adventist™ Church (SDA): Its
history, beliefs, practices, controversies, etc.

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Note:

This web site section is not by a Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) group. It is one of many informational essays explaining different faith groups and controversial social debates to be found on the Religious Tolerance.org web site.

The Adventist movement consists of a number of conservative Protestant faith groups that have many beliefs and practices. Many mirror those of fundamentalist and other evangelical denominations. One difference is Adventists follow injunctions in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) that requires religious services to be held on Saturdays, rather than Sundays. Prominent in the Adventist movement is the Seventh-day Adventists denomination.

Terminology:

Members of the Seventh-day Adventists™ are also called Adventists and SDAs. The church prefers the term "Adventist" although the term "SDA" is in very common use. The acronym "SDA" can cause confusion because it is shared by many unrelated groups. Examples are the : Scottish Downhill Association, Survey Documentation and Analysis, Surface Design Association, Sociological Data Archive, and probably hundreds of others.

The word "Adventist" is often pronounced incorrectly. The emphasis should be on the first syllable (Ad'-ven-tist). The General Conference of Seventy-day Adventists holds the trademark on the term "Seventh-day Adventists."

Topics covered in this section:

	History and present status of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination
	Beliefs and practices
	Church controversies
	Books and other resources
	Beliefs and practices concerning homosexuality Part 1: Background. Events from 1977 to 1999 Part 2: Events year 2000 to now. Adventist manual. Other gay-positive groups. Conclusions.

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Author: B.A. Robinson

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