What Adventists Believe
As a Christian church, Seventh-day Adventists are a faith community rooted in the beliefs described by the Holy Scriptures. Adventists describe these beliefs in the following ways:
God's greatest desire is for you to see a clear picture of His character. The Bible is God's voice, speaking His love personally to you today. Jesus is the one who never changes in a universe tha
t always does. Jesus is Creator, Sustainer, Saviour, Friend, God's Son, and God Himself! God's vision for you is life as He lives it! God loves you, and wants to give you the highest quality of life imaginable. In the heart of God is a place you can experience as home. God loves you, and wants to spend time with you personally, one on one, as two close friends. God's love is about you. God made you and has a very special plan for your life. It's a plan that will fill you with hope, love, peace, and activity. In fact, when Christ paid the penalty for sin on the cross, that gave Him the right to claim you as His own. As a result, you can experience His love and priceless salvation freely and fully without limit. Salvation? God cleans away all our sins and replaces them with His goodness. We don't have to be "good" for Him to accept us. Nevertheless, we must accept His promise and allow Him to clean out everything the enemy has left in us. Then we begin to experience the transforming power of His love. It's like a giant war: one side pulling us toward empty pleasure and destruction, and God urging us to accept His offer of peace and purpose.
