[talk-au] slightly diff tag watch

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Sun Jul 26 22:01:31 BST 2009


On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Stephen Hope wrote:
> 'Seventh-day Adventist' is the official name, but commonly abbreviated
> to Adventist or SDA.
>
> Technically, an adventist is someone who believes in the (soon) second
> coming of Christ (the Advent), so most Christian faiths can be called
> adventists.  However,  it's usually applied to a number of churches
> who came from the "adventist" movement of the 1800's, of which the
> SDAs are by far the largest.
>
> (Sorry, my comparative religions classes are showing)
>
> Stephen
thanks, because their web site didn't clearly state their official name





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