Beliefs
The doctrine of the Advent Christian Church includes belief in the Bible as the infallible rule of faith and practice, salvation available for all conditioned on repentance, a belief in the doctrine of the Trinity (God as Father, Son, & Holy Spirit), faith & faithfulness to God, and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. The doctrine of "the unconscious intermediate state of the dead" and "conditional immortality" - We believe that death is a condition of unconsciousness to all persons, righteous and wicked; a condition which will remain unchanged until the resurrection at Christ's Second Coming, at which time the righteous will receive everlasting life while the wicked will be "punished with everlasting destruction;" suffering complete extinction of being - separates them from some other evangelical denominations and movements. This is commonly called soul sleep. The church accepts two ordinances - water baptism by immersion, and the Lord's supper.
Advent Christian theologians, such as John H. Crouse, advocated an historicist view of the Book of Revelation, regarding it as a description of events from the time of the early church up to the second coming.
In ministry, the church cooperates to provide missions, education, publications, homes, and camps. The General Conference of the church meets every three years. Denominational headquarters are located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
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