Category: Fundamental Principles

God the Father (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 1 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That there is one God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Malachi 2:10; Mark 12:28-34; John 17:3; Romans 3:30; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Ephesians 4:4-6; 1 Timothy 2:5; James 2:19), the Father (Matthew 3:17, 17:5; 2 Peter 1:16-18; John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 1:3), a personal, spiritual...

The Son of God (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 2 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That there is one Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4:4-6; 1 Corinthians 8:6), the Son of the Eternal Father (John 5:18; 1 John 5:11, 13), the one by whom He created all things (Hebrews 1:1-2), and by whom they do consist...

The Holy Scriptures (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 3 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the Holy Scriptures (Romans 1:1-2; 2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Peter 1:21; Psalms 119:9-11, 50, 114, 116; Isaiah 30:9-13, 55:10-11) of the Old and New Testaments were (Psalms 12:6, 119:140; Proverbs 30:5; Luke 24:24-27; 2 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 1:10-11) given...

Baptism (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 4 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That baptism is an ordinance of the Christian church, (Matthew 3:11-17, 21:25, 28:18-20; Mark 1:4-5, 10:36-40, 16:16; Luke 7:29-30; John 1:33, 4:2; Acts 1:5, 2:37-41, 8:12-22, 26-38, 9:17-20, 10:44-48, 11:15-18; 18:24-19:6; 22:16; Romans 6:2-6; 1 Corinthians 1:13-18, 10:1-2, 12:12-13; Galatians 3:27; Ephesians 4:4-6;...

New Birth (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 5 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the new birth (John 3:3-8; 1 Peter 1:22-23) comprises the entire change (2 Corinthians 5:17; Ezekiel 36:24-28) necessary to fit us for the kingdom of God, (Ephesians 5:26-27; Revelation 22:14-15) and consists of two parts; First, a moral change wrought by...

God’s Revelation and World History (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 6-7 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That prophecy is a part of God’s revelation to man; (John 14:29; 1 Corinthians 12:7-11) that it is included in that Scripture which is profitable for instruction (2 Tim. 3: 16); (2 Timothy 3:16-17) that it is designed for...

The World’s Conversion (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 8 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the doctrine of the world’s conversion (Romans 9:27; Matthew 22:14) and a temporal millennium is a fable of these last days, calculated to lull men into a state of carnal security, (See CIHS 50.2 and DA 633.1; Matthew 24:37-43; 2...

The Longest Time Prophecy (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 9 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the mistake of Adventists in 1844 pertained to the nature of the event than to transpire, not to the time; that no prophetic period is given to reach to the second advent, but that the longest one, the two...

Heavenly Sanctuary (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 10 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the sanctuary of the new covenant (Hebrews 12:24) is the tabernacle of God in heaven, (Psalms 102:19) of which Paul speaks in Hebrews 8 and onward, and of which our Lord, as a great high priest, is minister; that this sanctuary...

The Ten Commandments (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 11 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That God’s moral requirements are the same upon all men in all dispensations; (Psalm 119:43-44; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Isaiah 24:5; Romans 16:26) that these are summarily contained in the commandments spoken by Jehovah from Sinai, (Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-22) engraven on the...

The Sabbath Commandment (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 12 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the fourth commandment of this law (Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15) requires that we devote the seventh day of each week, commonly called Saturday, to abstinence from our own labor, and to the performance of sacred and religious duties; (Isaiah 58,...

The Man of Sin (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 13 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That as the man of sin, (2 Thessalonians 2:1-4) the papacy, (Daniel 2, 7, 8; Revelation 13, 17) has thought to change times and laws (the law of God, Dan. 7:25), (Daniel 7:25) and has misled almost all Christendom in...

The Christian Lifestyle (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 14-15 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes Principle 14 That the followers of Christ should be a peculiar people, not following the maxims, nor conforming to the ways, of the world; not loving its pleasures nor countenancing its follies; (Romans 12:1-2; 2 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 2:11-15; 1 Peter...

Tithe and Offering (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 16 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That means for the support of evangelical work among men should be contributed from love to God and love of souls, (Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18; 1 Corinthians 9:3-14) not raised by church lotteries, or occasions designed to...

Transformation (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 17 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That as the natural or carnal heart is at enmity with God and his law, (1 Corinthians 2:12-14; James 1:23-25) this enmity can be subdued (Genesis 3:15; Romans 8:1-14; 1 John 3:4-10;) only by a radical transformation of the affections, (Matthew 19:27-30; Romans...

Obedience (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 18 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That as all have violated the law of God, (Romans 3:23; Psalm 32; Revelation 12:9) and cannot of themselves render obedience to his just requirements, (Genesis 5:3; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah 13:23) we are dependent on Christ, (John 15:5; Colossians 2:9-10) first, for justification...

Spiritual Gifts (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 19 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the Spirit of God was promised to manifest itself in the church through certain gifts, enumerated especially in 1 Cor. 12 and Eph. 4; (Romans 12:4-8; 1 Corinthians 12:14-31; Ephesians 4:11-16) that these gifts are not designed to supersede, or take...

Judgment of the Dead and Living (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 21 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary (See proposition X.), (Daniel 8:14) synchronizing with the time of the proclamation of the third message (Rev. 14:9, 10), (Revelation 14:9-12) is a time of investigative judgment, (Ecclesiastes 3:17,...

Spiritual Gifts (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 20 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That God, in accordance with his uniform dealings with the race, (2 Chronicles 19:7; Acts 10:34-35; Romans 2:11; Ephesians 6:9; 1 Peter 1:16-17) sends forth a proclamation of the approach of the second advent of Christ; (Matthew 25:1-13; Luke 21:28) and that...

Death and Resurrection (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 22-25 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes Principle 22 That the grave, whether we all tend, expressed by the Hebrew word sheol (1st use: Genesis 37:34-35; translated pit: Numbers 16:30, 33; 1 Samuel 2:6; translated hell: 2 Samuel 22:6; Job 7:9; Psalms 6:5; Ecclesiastes 9:4-10; Isaiah 38:18-19) and...

Heaven (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 26 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That these immortalized ones are then taken to heaven, to the New Jerusalem, the Father’s house, in which there are many mansions (John 14:1-3), (1 Corinthians 15:52-53; Revelation 21:1-2, 22-22:5; John 14:1-3) where they reign with Christ a thousand years, judging the world and...

Everlasting Destruction (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 27 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That at the end of the thousand years the Lord descends with his people and the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2), (Revelation 21:1-2) the wicked dead are raised, and come up on the surface of the yet unrenewed earth, and gather about the...

New Heavens and Earth (SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE 28 OF 28 FROM 1889) Download Notes That new heavens and a new earth shall spring by the power of God from the ashes of the old, (Revelation 20:14-21:8) and this renewed earth, (Psalms 37:11; Matthew 5:5) with the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:10-27) for its metropolis and...