Seventh-day Adventism

Denomination·Founded 1863 CE

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Seventh-day Adventism → 1 branch

The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

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History & overview

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The Sabbath kept, the Advent awaited.

Born from the Millerite disappointment of 1844: Adventists keep Saturday as Sabbath, await Christ's visible return, and made health a doctrine — vegetarian tables, mission hospitals, and some of the world's longest-lived communities among the fruits.

DeitiesOne God in three persons
Founded1863 CE · Battle Creek, Michigan
FounderEllen G. White and the pioneers
AfterlifeResurrection at the Advent; the dead sleep until it
TextsBible

The map

Seventh-day Adventism’s corner of it — solid lines are descent; dotted lines are resemblance only, ideas held in common across unrelated faiths. Click a node to recenter; ✕ returns here. All 171 faiths →
c. 1000 BCE Judaism 30 CE Christianity 1517 CE Protestantism 1863 CE Seventh-day Adventism 1955 CE The Branch Davidians

Core Tenets

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The seventh day is still the Sabbath. Saturday, by commandment unrepealed — the sign of creation kept against the calendar of Christendom. Go deeper — context →
Christ's return is near and literal. The Advent that named the movement: visible, personal, soon. Go deeper — context →
The body is a temple — health is holiness. Vegetarian tables, no alcohol or tobacco: the health message as gospel practice. Go deeper — context →

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Enter →
Sabbath. A full day fenced from commerce and hurry — welcomed with sundown worship on Friday evening. When weekly — Friday sundown to Saturday sundownWho the family and congregation Go deeper — context →

Where next

the museum exit — every door leads deeper in
The Branch Davidians — Adventists who read the seals of Revelation as opening now. Buddhism — 5 shared ideas, a different faith Judaism — 5 shared ideas, a different faith Christianity — 5 shared ideas, a different faith Islam — 5 shared ideas, a different faith Branch Seventh-day Adventism — inherit everything, change what you must The library of ideas — what Seventh-day Adventism shares with every other faith A faith at random — somewhere you have never been

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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