History
See also: History of the Seventh-day Adventist churchThe belief has evolved over time, but the basis is the same, the time of Christ's entrance into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary where the judgement work is done. In particular, today it is more grace-focused than in the early church. Earlier Adventism tended to view the judgment in stern tones, but later it is understood as God on the side of people. "Judgment" is understood as being in favour of the people, or that it is God's character which is being judged, and not people so much.
Smuts van Rooyen describes a "string of changing interpretations we have given this prophecy from Second Coming, to Shut Door, to Investigative Judgment, to cleansing the Living Temple, to Vindication of God’s Character, to simple Pre-advent Judgment..."
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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”
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“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)