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Re: CHAT: Congregationalism & Religious Terms In Dublex

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 1, 1999, 13:35
>Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> comunu: > > > Does that mean that the Seventh-day Adventists are not Christian in this >> language? They reject the Cross.
I think you have a denomination mix-up.
>Seventh-Day Adventists consider themselves Christian and are considered by >most to be Christian; therefore, the term 'carsdevsist' [cross-god-system] >"Christianity" would include them. Keep reading though! > >> The Greek word "stavros" (sigma-tau-alpha-upsilon-rho-omicron-sigma) can >> mean "stake" or "upright" as well as "cross". Verging on 2,000 years of >> general consensus is that "stavros" meant "cross" in the context in >> question. The Adventists discovered the alternate meanings and decided >> that "stavros" could NOT mean "cross". Thus, the reject the traditional >> interpretation in favor of "upright" or "stake". They also refuse to >> depict or display any crosses in their iconography. They further refuse >> to depict the "stake", since they claim that this would be an insult to >> God, or so I gather.
Now I'm very sure of it. I've been Seventh-Day Adventist for near on 20 years (=forever) and never heard anything like this. (And our churches have crosses in them.)
>I can't find any record of this. The Encyclopedia Britannica states:
[snip]
>You would think if they rejected the cross that would be covered here -- its >pretty important. Could you be thinking of a different branch of >Christianity that calls itself an Advent church? (The Advent Christian >Church is a separate denomination from the Seventh-Day Adventists.)
I did a search on the web and apparently it is 'Messianism' which seems to be a very Jewish Christianity. http://www.saltshakers.co.uk/rabbi/rabbi4.htm has a similar description of 'stavros' as discussed. *Muke! -- http://i.am/muke ICQ: 1936556 AIM: MukeTurtle "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C. S. Lewis