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Maranatha San Diego

August 15th, 2005

Website: http://www.sdmaranatha.org

Church Review
Scriptural View: 2/5
Missional View: 3/5
Community: 3/5

Website Review
Site Usabilility: 3/5
Site Design: 2/5
Site Content: 2/5

Summary: Maranatha is a common church name (meaning ‘the Lord is coming’). This Maranath church is a Seventh Day Adventist Church. There are several distinctions that Seventh Day Adventists’ hold to that Christians should be aware of prior to selecting this church. The most obvious being that the churches meet on Saturday.

Seventh Day Adventists believe because God created the world in seven days and rested on Saturday, this is what we are required to do by the Ten Commandments. Churches who do not meet on Saturday are breaking one of the ten commandments. Other (major) differences are their belief that people who go to hell will be destroyed, they will not live eternally. They believe Jesus is Michael the Archangel, that our sins will be placed on Satan (The Great Controversy, p. 422, 485.), that on October 22, 1844 Jesus entered the second and last phase of his atoning work (Based on the Jewish Day of Atonement) amongst others. Oddly, a church that takes the scripture so literal doesn’t take passages about men pastors literally so woman is co-senior pastor at Maranatha. For more:

Christian apologists and countercult experts disagree on whether or not Seventh-day Adventism (SDA) should be classified as, theologically, a cult of Christianity. Source Seventh-day Adventism - Apologetics Index

A subset of Christian thought that we do not recommend to Christians to attend.

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