Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

Paul finally acknowledged that he needed
divine power to be victorious. Through Christ he
put aside a life according to the flesh and began a
new life according to the Spirit (Rom. 7:25; 8:1).
This new life in the Spirit is the transforming
gift of God. Through divine grace, we who are
"dead in trespasses and sins" become victorious
(Eph. 2:1, 3, 8-10). The spiritual rebirth so
transforms the life (John 1:13; John 3:5) that we
can speak of a new creation--the "old things have
passed away" and "all things have become new" (2
Cor. 5:17). The new life, however, does not
exclude the possibility of sinning (1 John 2:1).
4. Evolution and man's fall
Ever since Creation Satan has confused many
by weakening confidence in the scriptural accounts
of the origins of the human race and man's Fall.
One could call evolution the "natural" view of
humanity, a view based on the assumption that life
began by chance and that humans, through a long
evolutionary process, have emerged from the lower
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