Talk:Church of God (Seventh Day)

William Miller

This movement is, by it's own records, NOT descended from William Miller. See "A history of the True Religion Traced From 33 A.D. to Date, by A. Dugger and C.O. Dodd <http://www.cog7day.org/about/pdf/truereligion.pdf>>. The afforementione incorrect assertion is problematic at best, and will remain deleted.

67.80.157.45 01:20, 15 February 2007 (UTC)Jebbrady

So I take it that the church does not consider itself "Adventist"? Colin MacLaurin 14:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Please note: At the time that Dugger wrote the aforementioned document, he was not a member of the General Conference.

According to Robert Coulter, the official historian of the General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh Day):

"When did the Church of God (Seventh Day) come into being? Some claim that the church can trace its history through the teachings of other religious movements older than the Church of God. However, there is a problem with any attempt to make the Church of God (Seventh Day) older than its 149-year history. Consider:

1. The Church of God (Seventh Day) cannot trace its doctrines of the Advent in time past that of the William Miller Advent Movement of the 1840’s. Our founder, Gilbert Cranmer became a Millerite adventist in 1843.

2. The Sabbath heritage of those connected with the adventist movement cannot be traced back, in time, past the spring of 1844, when an adventist congregation at Washington, New Hampshire, began to keep the Sabbath. Sabbath keeping had been introduced to Adventist as early as 1843 in an Adventist publication called The Midnight Cry. But it received little attention until after the Great Disappointment of October 22, 1844. Joseph Bates accepted the observance of the Sabbath, and began to proclaim it to his adventist colleagues in 1845. Joseph Bates taught our pioneer founder, Gilbert Cranmer, to observe the Sabbath in 1849.

3. The church cannot trace its ancestry by the name Church of God. The pioneer church was not known by the name Church of God. The Michigan church called itself the Christ of Christ until 1884, when the General Conference of the Church of God was organized. The Iowa church began as the Church of Jesus Christ in 1860, and changed its name to Church of God in 1865. The Missouri church was organized as the Sabbatarian Adventist Church in 1874. It changed its name to Church of God in 1875. The parenthetical phrase (Seventh Day) was added to the name of our church in 1923 to distinguish it from first day churches of God.

From this brief analysis it become obvious that we cannot appropriate the history of churches that observed the Sabbath before 1845, or those who used the name Church of God, as the history of the Church of God (Seventh Day). The Church of God (Seventh Day), had its beginning in 1858, when Gilbert Cranmer, founded the Church of Christ. Our church did not originate with earlier religious movements. To suggest otherwise simply belies the facts."

"biblical unitarianism"

Is there another type of unitarianism? Is Trinitarianism not biblical?--134.153.14.13 (talk) 14:50, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

And how does someone become a "biblical unitarianism" anyway? Greyestt (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)