Creation Seventh Day Adventists (C-SDAs)
Creation Seventh Day Adventists are a seperate group from what is commonly called the Seventh Day Adventist church, but maintain that they are in fact the true and actual Seventh Day Adventist church. The difference between the two groups are few but critical. Some would see them as hair splitting, but C-SDAs maintain that the word of God cannot be comprimised one speck, and as such a seperation came from the General Conference body of Seventh Day Adventists, or what are commonly called simply Seventh Day Adventists.
The first and foremost difference in their beliefs is the victory over sin, the center point of the C-SDA ministry and what they believe to be the gospel of Christ. They believe that Adam had an unfallen nature in Eden before he ate from the tree of knowledge, and that after he did he took on a fallen nature, and as such all of his children inherited it. This part all churches agree on, however where they differ is that Creation Seventh Day Adventists preach that Christ came to restore that unfallen nature.
They believe that through Christs atoneing sacrifice was given the power to humanity to receive something even better than Adams unfallen nature : the nature of Christ, the ability to overcome sin as Christ overcame sin after asking forgiveness for the past sins of ones life and turning away. They believe that through Christ people can and should, now, presently, live a life without known sin by the power of Christ, not in theory, but in actuality, at this very moment, claim victory over sin.
Another area they differ from the Conference is that C-SDAs are non-Trinitarian. They accept Christ as the son of God, and the Father as God, but they do not accept the teaching of the holy spirit as a third being. Instead they believe that there is the Father and the Son, and they are the same in essence and purpose, in mindset and goal, and this shared focus is the holy spirit, the spirit and presence of God.
They differ from most protestant churches in several teachings, the summary of which being that they believe the seventh day (Saturday) is the true and actual Sabbath, that the laws regarding unclean meats are still in fact binding, that health is an important principle, that the state of the dead is sleep, that hell does not burn for eternity but until those in it are consumed, that baptism is done only by immersion, that tithe is 10%, that the names of the Father and the Son are Yahweh and Yahshua respectively (In Hebrew), and that the feast days (those that were not shadows of Christ) are still to be kept.
They differ from the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists in one other major area, that being biblical prophecy. For the most part they agree on what prophecy states, and in fact agree entirely, however "C"'s believe that the Conference church has failed to see the importance in some areas. One such area is the image to the beast in Revelation. Creation Seventh Day Adventists became seperate from the Conference after they (The Conference) filed a trademark with the U.S. Government (Taught by both churches to be the second beast of Revelation and the one who gives power to the image), and began to sue congregations over the name Seventh Day Adventist. By the Adventist church's standards, in doing this they became not a church but an image to the first beast (Taught to be Rome by both organizations), and neccesitated a coming out of the fallen body into a true church of believers.
It is for that reason that the Creation Seventh Day Adventist church believes that it is the true and actual Adventist church, along with its holding of all the teachings of the Adventist pioneers/founders (Who were anti Trinitarian, against sueing brethren, taught that church + state union = an image to the beast, etc.), and that the Conference Seventh Day Adventist church is no longer a church at all, much less the church of God that they once were, and that C-SDAs now are.