Talk:Adventism

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WikiProject Seventh-day Adventist Church To-do: edit Expand "Glacier View Controversy" section, to include more background, history, theological issues, and details of the Glacier View meeting itself Add to "Adventist Responses to Criticisms" section, ideally with material from Adventist scholars etc.

I'm an Adventist. Let's build us a page.

What would you like to see on an Adventist Page? I would like a page on Adventist Beliefs a Forum for people to speak about how Adventists needs to change to be more relevant in today’s world. MPP

What we shall see in an article about Adventist is determined by the purpose and policies of Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia, I'll answer more below. Said: Rursus ☻ 18:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

1 Why was this section removed?
2 Not a disambig
- 2.1 Groups
3 Encyclopedia
4 Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church

[edit] Why was this section removed?

I started this as a foundation to build upon and it was deleted. I'm curious as to why. It's not to be a dictionary, but a building block for the article:

 ADVENTISTS [Adventists] [advent, Lat.,=coming], Generally speaking, Adventist(s) are members of a group of 
 religiously related denominations whose distinctive doctrine is centered around their belief in the imminent 
 second coming of Jesus Christ. Maniwar (talk) 01:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not a disambig

This really shouldn't be a disambig page; there seems to be a need for a (possibly short) substantive article that outlines what all the Adventist denominations have in common, including their common history and development, along with links to more detailed articles about particular denominations. Currently that type of article either doesn't exist, or isn't clearly linked from here. --Russ (talk) 15:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Although there seem to be many kinds of Adventists, they all seem to be related. Ewlyahoocom 07:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I would like to see a section on theology. I imagine that most Adventist groups see themselves or saw themselves as the true church. Most probably emphasize the law more than other popular (but not necessarily all scholarly) Christian beliefs. A good number keep the Sabbath. Probably all or most have been considered either a cult or as sect by more mainstream groups either presently or at least in the past. Perhaps many of them believe in conditional immortality/annihilationism and an unconscious state of the dead (the SDAs do at least). I'm not an expert, so someone please do proper research before writing such a section. I have a good understanding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but not much about the other groups. Colin MacLaurin 07:34, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Groups

What about the Worldwide Church of God and related movements. Are they "Adventist"? What about the Jehovah's Witnesses? Colin MacLaurin 08:40, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I am now confident that the Worldwide Church of God are Adventist in the majority view. Someone else clearly thinks so too, because Category:Church of God (Armstrong) is a child of Category:Adventist. In fact, the other churches and individuals in this category should be integrated into this article.

John Thomas (Christadelphian) was impacted by the Millerite movement (see also Christadelphians). Several Millerite Adventists impacted Charles Taze Russell of the Bible Student movement, from which the Jehovah's Witnesses emerged. Whether or not these groups are classified "Adventist", the article could at least mention Adventist influences on them. Colin MacLaurin 10:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopedia

Wished in any encyclopedia:

a balanced and pretty complete description of a certain topic, if the topic is controversial (such as is not Adventist), special care must be taken that the description handles the topic in a factual tone, that balances pro/con in a manner that is the same as the common opinion of the world,
an ingress, i.e. an initial overview,
details, theology, history, important front figure,
references, internal links and external links;

Said: Rursus ☻ 18:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)