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Seventh-day Adventism uses a number of terms that are subject to misunderstanding by "non-Adventists". As a result "non-Adventists" will think they are "hearing" one thing when Seventh-day Adventists actually mean something else. This is an attempt to help both Seventh-day Adventists and "non-Adventists" better understand each other. This glossary isn't meant to be inflammatory; it's meant to educate.
 
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Term
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Active in Yellow		   SDA Example   SDA Definition
(Summary)		   Evangelical Definition
(Summary)		   Equivalence
2000 Visions                
2300 Days                
144,000                
Advent People, the Church and the World   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
Amalgamation of Man and Beast                
Apostasize                
Apostate Protestantism                
Arianism                
Assurance                
Atonement                
Authoritative Source of Truth                
Babylon is Fallen                
Backslider                
Baptism (Holy Spirit)       SDA Summary being prepared by Pastor Kevin Morgan        
Baptism (Water)       SDA Summary being prepared by Pastor Kevin Morgan        
Becoming Like The World                
Bible Study                
Body of Christ                
Broken Jars of Clay                
Calvanism                
Ceremonial Law                
Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary                
Cleansing of the Sanctuary                
Close of Probation                
Commandments of God                
Communion                
Community of Believers                
Conversion                
Colporteur                
Cult                
Culteral Adventist                
Cultic Doctrine                
Dark County                
Death                
Discouraged                
Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts                
Early Rain                
Easter                
Edges of the Sabbath                
End of Sin                
End Times                
Evangelical                
Evangelical Adventist                
Evangelistic Effort                
Everlasting Gospel                
Exegesis                
Expository                
False Revivals                
Fanaticism                
First Angel's Message                
First Message                
Former Adventist                
Gems of Truth                
Get Ready                
Gift of Prophecy                
Gifts of the Spirit                
Gnosticism                
God the Father                
God the Holy Spirit                
God the Son                
God's Highest Authority On Earth                
God's Word                
Gospel                
Gospel in Verity                
Grace                
The Great Controversy                
The Great Disappointment                
Greater Light                
Guarding the Edges of the Sabbath                
Hands Across the Gulf                
"Happy Sabbath"                
Haystack (Food)                
Heavenly Sanctuary                
Hell                
Hermeneutics                
Historic Adventist                
Hope ("We have this hope")                
Inductive Bible Study                
Innerant (Bible)                
Innerant (Ellen White)                
Investigative Judgment                
Junior Camp                
Justification                
The Language of Appearances                
Last Days                
Latter Rain                
Law                
Law of Love                
Left in Darkness   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
Legalism                
Lesser Light                
Lesson Study                
Little Flock                
Lord's Day                
Lord's Storehouse                
Lord's Supper                
Lord's Work                
Mark of the Beast                
Medical Missionary Work                
Membership Transfer                
The Message                
Michael the Archangel                
Millennium                
Missionary Contact                
Moral Law                
"My Favorite Author"                
Nature of Christ (Christology)                
Nature of Man                
New Birth                
New Covenant                
New Covenant Law       SDA Summary being prepared by Pastor Kevin Morgan        
New Earth                
Nominal Churches                
Old Covenant                
Old Covenant Law       SDA Summary being prepared by Pastor Kevin Morgan        
Once-For-All   "Jesus' Once-For-All-Sacrifice"            
Original Blessing Placed in the Beginning on the Seventh Day                
Pathfinders                
Pen of Inspiration                
People of God   Bible Handbook, page 88            
Present Duty   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
Present Truth   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
Profession of Faith                
Progressive Adventist                
Proof-texts                
Regeneration                
Remnant Church                
Resurrection                
Revelation Seminar                
Right Arm of the Message                
Righteousness by Faith                
Sabbath                
Sabbath Rest   Hebrews 3-4            
Sabbath School                
Sabbath School Class                
Salvation                
Sanctification                
Sanctuary                
Sanctuary Doctrine                
Saved                
SDA Church                
Seal of God               Contradiction
Sealing Time                
Second Advent                
Second Angel's Message                
Second Message                
Self-abuse                
Self-supporting Work                
Seven Churches   Rev 1-3            
Sin (hamartiology)                
Sinful Nature                
The Shaking                
Soul (Human)       The soul is the body plus the breath of life.        
Sound Principles of Biblical Interpretation                
Spirit (Human)                
Spirit of Prophecy                
Spiritual Israel                
Spiritualism                
State of the Dead                
Stewardship                
Sunday Keeper                
Supporting Ministry                
Systematic Benevolence               None
Temple of God ("Our body as ...)                
Testimony of Jesus                
Third Angel's Message                
Third Message                
Three Angel's Messages                
Time of Trouble                
Tithe                
Trinity                
The True Light   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
The Truth                
Unbeliever                
Unconscious State                
Unity in the Body of Christ                
Universal Sunday Law                
Vege-meat                
Wine                
The Work of God   Experience and Views, pages 43-44            
 
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