Why I Am Not A Seventh-Day Adventist by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-10-12T07:00:00+00:00

Born-Again Christians

Meeting In Synagogues

The synagogue (Acts 17:2) was a Jewish expedient, without any Scriptural authority or command behind it, which arose during the Intertestamental Period (400 B.C. to A.D. 90). The temple was the God-ordained meeting place, and it was formerly the “tent” or “tabernacle” (see 2 Sam. 7:6; Exod. 39:40; 1 Chron. 9:19; Isa. 16:5; Acts 15:16, etc.).

No Jew in the Old Testament “assembled” in a synagogue to “worship.” And no Christian in the New Testament assembled in a synagogue to worship. A church building is not a synagogue. In spite of this, all of the Adventists have actually kidded themselves into thinking that New Testament Christians observed the Jewish Sabbath because PAUL WENT INTO SYNAGOGUES TO PREACH TO UNSAVED JEWS. The references quoted by all of these apostate Judaizers are Acts 13:42, where the Gentiles are just as LOST as the Jews, and Acts 16:13, where some Gentile women who have been following Jewish religious customs are meeting for prayer on the Sabbath. All proselytes to Judaism (see Ananias, Acts 9, Cornelius, Acts 10, the Ethiopian Eunuch, Acts 8, the centurion, Luke 7:5, and other Gentiles, Acts 2:10) would have observed the Sabbath as LOST or SAVED SINNERS BEFORE THEY HEARD THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPEL.

The Eunuch returning from Jerusalem was not a Christian. Cornelius (see Acts 11:14) was not a Christian, and Lydia and the Philippian jailor had never heard Ephesians 2:1–6; 1 Cor. 15:1–6; or John 3:16 till Paul preached to them. But these are the “Christians” who “kept the Sabbath” according to all Adventist literature. They even go so far as to use Apollos’ disciples (Acts 19:1–4) at Ephesus as examples of Sabbath-observing, synagogue-attending “Christians.” NOT ONE OF APOLLOS’ CONVERTS WAS SAVED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SENSE UNTIL PAUL GOT AHOLD OF HIM (Acts 19:4). There were no New Testament Christians in the synagogue in Acts 19 where Paul went to preach. He went there to CONVERT UNSAVED JEWS (see the same thing in 18:1, 4 and 17:1–3). Believe it or not, the Adventists think that a converted Jew going into a Jewish synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath to reach unsaved Jews for Christ (see Rom. 9:2–3 and 1 Cor. 9:20–21) is defining WHERE and WHEN New Testament Christians are to go to church! You couldn’t find a more depraved mentality in the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, Kansas).

No child of God has anymore business “meeting for worship” in a Jewish synagogue than he has meeting in a grease pit at a gasoline station. The apostates say: “The New Testament churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, and Ephesus were all Sabbath keeping churches made up of Jews and Gentiles who believed in Christ Jesus.” Chapter and verse? Not one verse in the epistles to the Philippians, the Ephesians, the Thessalonians, or the Corinthians: not one verse. All the verses were taken out of Acts BEFORE any church was started at Philippi or Corinth or Ephesus or Thessalonica (see above). Adventists will lie like a Persian rug.

Now, these poor, ignorant “Bible teachers” sooner or later betray their real spiritual condition.

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