Seventh-day Adventists have been promoting their ideas in Russia for a long time. At the beginning of the last century, they actively worked among Orthodox Russians. Originating outside the Old World, the Adventist sect gradually spread its harmful and dangerous influence throughout the world.
From the history of the Adventist sect
The Adventist sect emerged in the United States of America in the first half of the 19th century. The founder of one of the first sectarian communities was a certain Rachel Preston, who, without any criticism, accepted the teachings of the preacher Miller, who predicted the end of the world in 1843. Those who were expecting the onset of a universal cataclysm began to call each other "Adventists", from the Latin "adventus", which literally means "coming."
On the day appointed by Miller, as expected, the coming of the Savior did not take place. Preacher Miller, without hesitation for too long, announced that an unfortunate mistake had crept into his calculations, after which he confidently moved the date to next year. When the next time the Adventists' expectations were not met, many adherents of the new teaching abandoned the sect.
Among those who remained loyal to the sect, R. Preston was especially distinguished by her activity. She organized a significant Adventist community, with whom she began to await the imminent and imminent second coming of Christ. One of the fundamental differences between the teachings of Adventists and Christianity was the celebration of not Saturday, but Sunday, that is, the seventh day of the week.
Why the Adventist sect is dangerous
Seventh-day Adventists refer to their religious organization as the "Church of Christians," but upon closer inspection, they are not Christians at all. They differ from the adherents of the canonical text of the Bible by a number of well-learned errors, which they take for immutable truths.
Adventist teaching states that the human soul is mortal and will remain in a dead body until its resurrection. Adventists are questioning other aspects of Christianity as well. In particular, sectarians completely deny the very fact of the existence of hell and the idea of eternal retribution for sins.
New converts are convinced in every possible way that true faith can only be found in this religious community, and salvation will be sent down only to those who unquestioningly follow the teachings of Adventists. All of these points provide orthodox Christians with grounds for considering the teachings and views of Adventists to be false and distracting from true Christian values.
It should also be remembered that the Seventh-day Adventist sect is essentially still a foreign organization and has nothing to do with the cultural traditions of Orthodoxy. Willingly or unwillingly, Adventists are planting false spiritual values and moral traditions in Russia, depriving gullible parishioners of landmarks.
Representatives of the Orthodox Church have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that the activities of Adventists sometimes offend the feelings of believers of other confessions. Sectarians make offensive attacks against those who adhere to other religious views. The activities of Adventists are also dangerous because they confuse the minds of people, preventing them from following the generally accepted canons of the Christian faith.
