# Seventh-day Adventist

> A Trinitarian shelf for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with links to the church’s own Fundamental Beliefs.

- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/seventh-day-adventist

The Seventh-day Adventist Church confesses one God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Fundamental Belief 2 says, “There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons.” See the [denomination list](/denominations) and [Christianity](/christianity).

[What Do Seventh-day Adventists Believe?](/seventh-day-adventist/what-do-seventh-day-adventists-believe) quotes the Fundamental Beliefs on the Trinity, the Sabbath, the heavenly sanctuary, death, and the gift of prophecy.

[Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians Keep It?](/judaism/is-the-sabbath-saturday-or-sunday) sets the seventh-day Sabbath beside the first day of the week.

## Official Sources

### Seventh-day Adventist Church

- [The Trinity (Fundamental Belief 2)](https://www.nadadventist.org/beliefs/the-trinity/) — North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Fundamental Belief 2, on the Trinity, as the North American Division publishes it.
- [The Sabbath (Fundamental Belief 20)](https://www.nadadventist.org/beliefs/the-sabbath/) — North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Fundamental Belief 20, on the seventh-day Sabbath, as the North American Division publishes it.

## Articles

### Start Here

The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s own Fundamental Beliefs, from the Trinity to the Sabbath and the heavenly sanctuary.

- [What Do Seventh-day Adventists Believe?](https://apologetics.wiki/seventh-day-adventist/what-do-seventh-day-adventists-believe) — Seventh-day Adventists confess one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Jesus as truly God and truly man. They also teach a binding Saturday Sabbath, an investigative judgment from 1844, unconscious death, and Ellen G. White’s prophetic gift.

### Common Arguments and Objections

Claims that come up in this conversation, with the article that walks through each one.

- [Christians must keep the seventh-day Sabbath. Sunday worship is a later change, and the fourth commandment still binds every person.](https://apologetics.wiki/judaism/is-the-sabbath-saturday-or-sunday) — Exodus 20 names the seventh day.

### Related Articles on Other Shelves

Pages on other shelves that link here.

- [Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Must Christians Keep It?](https://apologetics.wiki/judaism/is-the-sabbath-saturday-or-sunday) — The Sabbath in Exodus is the seventh day, Saturday. The apostles also met on the first day of the week, and Colossians 2 calls sabbath days a shadow. Christians are not bound to keep Saturday.
- [Is Jesus Michael the Archangel?](https://apologetics.wiki/jehovahs-witnesses/is-jesus-michael-the-archangel) — Insight on the Scriptures identifies Michael with Jesus by a chain of inferences. Hebrews 1 sets the Son over every angel.
- [Is the Holy Spirit a Person or an Impersonal Force?](https://apologetics.wiki/jehovahs-witnesses/is-the-holy-spirit-a-person) — Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the holy spirit is God’s active force, not a person. The New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible) still has the Spirit speaking, being lied to, and being grieved, and it calls the lie a lie to God.
- [The Trinity](https://apologetics.wiki/christianity/the-trinity) — Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.
- [What Is the Difference Between Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses?](https://apologetics.wiki/jehovahs-witnesses/mormons-vs-jehovahs-witnesses) — Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses are different churches. One teaches that the Father has a body of flesh and bones. The other says Jesus is not Almighty God.
- [Which Churches Do Not Believe in the Trinity?](https://apologetics.wiki/christianity/which-churches-do-not-believe-in-the-trinity) — Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, Oneness Pentecostals, Iglesia Ni Cristo, Christadelphians, Christian Science, and Unitarian Universalists do not confess the Nicene Trinity. Catholic, Orthodox, and Baptist confessions do. Jesus is God.