Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

[bdavidc]

Let me know when you want to start testing the Adventist Church, I'll be glad to help.

You maybe not realise that you've just declared every Sunday keeping church harmful. Not my words my friend.

No, that is not what I said. A church meeting on Sunday is not the same thing as a church teaching Sunday is the Christian Sabbath, or that keeping Sunday saves anyone, proves anyone’s salvation, or is God’s final test. If a Sunday church teaches that, then yes, that should be rejected too.

The issue is not what day a group meets. The issue is whether a system binds the conscience where Scripture does not bind it.

Paul said, “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday... or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ” (Colossians 2:16-17).

He also said, “One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” (Romans 14:5).

So no, I did not declare every Sunday keeping church harmful. I said any system is harmful when it replaces Scripture with tradition or adds requirements Christ and the apostles did not bind on the church. That applies to Sunday systems, Sabbath systems, denominational systems, and every other system.

Christ is the issue. The finished work of Christ is the issue. Scripture is the test.

 

[Brakelite]

A church meeting on Sunday is not the same thing as a church teaching Sunday is the Christian Sabbath

I can't believe you said that being an American in the middle of a movement that is linked to government promoting Sunday as exactly as you describe above, because...

that keeping Sunday saves anyone,

Keeping Sunday may not save an individual, but may save the nation. So says many Christian nationalists determined to legislature morality.

 

[ScottA]

Thanks in advance!

I don't know of any church past or present that has not come to believe the doctrine of the "false teachers" Peter foretold of and the "lie" Paul said would cause "strong delusion", except those who expected Jesus to return "soon" and in their lifetime. Not as the Preterists believed, but as Jesus said, and Paul elaborated: "Today", "the dead, we who are alive, but each one in his own order."