adventism

BTW, another defining characteristic of 7D-adventism is their belief that Jesus is coming back Real Soon Now.

Biblical literalism is one of the defining characteristics of 7D-adventism.

See also Seventh Day Adventism and John Kellogg.

> Early Adventism published positions in harmony with the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion, though it was not active in that movement.

I grew up in the Loma Linda area as a Seventh-day Adventist (though my family left Adventism when I was a teenager after reading some books that explained why some of its core teachings are unbiblical).

It has more in common with Tolstoyism and its nearest equivalent in the US would probably be Adventism or perhaps Unitarianism in the sense that its adherents are very serious, but they are theologically liberal and opposed to growing the church through baptism and assuming that baptized infants are Christians.

> This idea originated within Seventh-day Adventism (which considers the Sabbath to be Saturday), and some on the fringes of the SDA church have taken a handful of failed Congressional bills and Papal writings and inflated them into the trigger of the apocalypse.

> don't see how that quote in any way contradicts what I said: the "seventh day" part of "seventh day adventism" Its does contradict what was meant and is a quote from the person who named the religion.

The predominant idea behind YEC stems from the 1920s and Seventh Day Adventism, particularly Ellen G.

He found the long-living outliers practiced certain behaviors that they associated with Adventism, like vegetarianism.

Perhaps you are confusing those with real cults such as: Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism?