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BY ANDREW W. KERBS<br />
The issue with Seventh-day<br />
<strong>Adventist</strong>s,” the preacher<br />
explained, “is that they<br />
believe they are saved by<br />
their works.”<br />
This accusation reappears every<br />
decade or so and is nothing new to the<br />
<strong>Adventist</strong> faithful. Since the days of<br />
Ellen White we’ve been bombarded<br />
with labels such as legalists, Pharisees,<br />
bigots, flat-earthers, and my personal<br />
Memorial to<br />
A<br />
Salvation<br />
do works<br />
favorite, Jews. Another critical remark<br />
I’ve heard about the <strong>Adventist</strong> Church is<br />
that our greatest blunder was the elimination<br />
of righteousness by faith.<br />
As a youth growing up in the Bible<br />
Belt of the United States, the varying<br />
doctrines of our fellow Protestants were<br />
ever-present and ever-vocal in my<br />
upbringing. Whatever doctrinal distinctive<br />
one may critique about the <strong>Adventist</strong><br />
Church, the conversation would<br />
inevitably touch on righteousness by<br />
faith at some point. In those days the<br />
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