A person who has experienced stress or faced misfortune is an ideal prey for sectarians. They imperceptibly lure into their organization, showing how important and dear the newcomer is to them. It is very difficult to resist such attention. At that moment, when a person begins to suspect a dirty trick, the sect already completely controls his life. Unfortunately, the number of such organizations continues to grow.
Sects that enslave the individual
Traditional religions spiritually enrich society by interacting with it. A sect can only enslave a person. For example, Orthodox, Islamic, Catholic or Buddhist culture is known all over the world. Nothing is known about the sectarian. There are no great thinkers, artists, composers or architects in this culture. A sect is incapable of spiritually enriching a person. It can only pull people out of public life, pulling their finances into their cash registers.
Such organizations are a state in miniature. The highest moral standard is the good of the sect. If to achieve itneed to break the law, the adept will definitely do it.
Getting into one of these organizations is not as difficult as it might seem. If the sectarian lure coincides with the interests of a person, most likely, he will be carried away. Such organizations are not invited openly. They offer to attend courses on the study of a foreign language, oriental dances or lectures on spiritual development. For example, the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School offers free books for children. At the same time, they are ready to take on the education of kids who have not even reached the age of 2 years.
Whether a person stays in a sect or not depends on his suggestibility. Anyone who has experienced severe stress quite easily falls under the influence of others. The cause of mental overstrain does not always have to be misfortune. For many workaholics, going on vacation is already stressful.
In totalitarian sects, a person changes very quickly, far from the best. The sooner it comes out, the better. People who have been in a sect for a long time often need the help of a psychologist.
Seventh-day Adventists
It is believed that most totalitarian sects are not able to outlive their leader. With his death, such organizations cease to exist. Sects that managed to outlive their creator are in the minority, such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The cult originated in the United States in the early 19th century. Its founder was William Miller, who belonged to the Baptist community. Adherents of the sect consider themselves Christians and are distinguishedspecial passion for the Old Testament. They took their knowledge of the millennium from rabbinic books. In addition, the sectarians had to harmonize the teachings of the New Testament about the second coming of Christ with the Jewish expectation of the Messiah. And the Adventists managed to do it. They came up with the doctrine of the three comings of Christ.
In order to understand who the Seventh-day Adventists are, it is enough to go through the basic postulates of the sect:
- assert that all who want to be saved must keep the Old Testament Sabbath;
- are confident that Jesus took upon himself the sinful human nature, and not punishment for people. In addition, while in heaven, he bore the name Michael;
- assert that Christians will be saved not by faith in Jesus Christ, but by keeping the laws, in particular on the Sabbath;
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches that, in the end, all human sins will be passed on to Satan. He will answer for all evil deeds. According to their logic, it turns out that Satan is the savior of mankind;
- Resurrection observance, according to Adventists, is the mark of the Beast;
- sectarians believe that a person joins Christ not through faith, but only through water baptism;
- deny that the souls of believers go to heaven. It is taught that after death everyone falls into spiritual hibernation in their own grave. Souls will be able to wake up only after the coming of Christ;
- in the sermons of the Seventh-day Adventists, one can hear that Jesus organized a kind of trial-investigation, where the records of the sins of all believers are studied. This process started in1944 and continues to this day. Believers will be finally cleansed from sin only at the last advent.
William Miller
It is quite difficult to understand who the Seventh-day Adventists are without studying the personalities who founded the sect. Created and led the organization William Miller. He called his teaching the Latin word adventus, which means coming.
Miller was an ordinary farmer who completed only 6 grades of school. He began to study the Bible on his own, focusing on prophetic books. From the Holy Scriptures, he learned that neither the hour nor the day is known when the Son of Man will come. But William Miller thought he could figure it out. And he took up the calculations. Perhaps he decided that since the day and time cannot be known, then the month and year are quite possible.
Determining the date of the coming of the Savior, Miller began to preach. Thanks to his eloquence, he managed to convince many of his faith. Miller's followers gave away property, abandoned their farms, and waited for Christ. Nothing happened on the appointed day.
William Miller revised the calculations and set a different date. And I was wrong again. The advent was once again postponed to a new date, but never took place. Most Seventh-day Adventist Christians have turned their backs on their preacher. Miller became disheartened and soon died.
Ellen White
After the death of William Miller, the Seventh-day Adventist sect was led by Ellen White. When she was a child, she was hit in the head by a stone that almost killed the baby. Fortunately, she survived. The injury took a serious tollon her mental faculties. The simplest things, such as reading and writing, were rather difficult for her.
Soon Ellen began to have visions. The girl claimed to have flown to Jupiter and Saturn. Then she began to predict different events. But, as with Miller, none of the prophecies came true.
White denounced all secular entertainment. In her opinion, Satan used opera to destroy human souls. Music broke moral foundations and called for sensual pleasures. Libraries, and especially the fiction and historical literature stored there, in her opinion, are useless.
Answering the question of who the Seventh-day Adventists are, we can say that this is a sect named after Ellen White. She reformed the organization, and her strange interpretation of the Scriptures became the basis of the teaching. To this day, she is revered by adepts as the greatest prophet.
Adventists in the Russian Empire
In the Russian Empire, almost nothing was known about who the Seventh-day Adventists were until 1886. The first church appeared in the Crimea, in the village of Berdy-Bulat (now the village of Privolnoe, Simferopol district). It was founded in 1886 by Ludwig Richard Konradi, a missionary of the Hamburg Tract Society. Johann Perk, a native of the village, became his assistant.
Konradi was expelled from Russia for being too active. Perk moved to the Shenviese colony, which was located in the Yekaterinoslav province (at the moment, the Zaporozhye region). main centerthe new teaching was the village of Natalevka. Until 1896, the church had only 800 parishioners. Its activities were limited to the rural areas of the German colonies. In 1901, several communities arose in Galicia.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Seventh-day Adventist sects began to appear in St. Petersburg, Riga, Odessa, Moscow, Kyiv, Saratov. In 1906 they received equal rights with the Baptists. This contributed to a significant increase in the number of parishioners. In 1911, the number of Adventists in Russia amounted to 4 thousand people. In 1916, the number of parishioners increased by another 2 thousand
Adventists in Soviet Russia
The Soviet government supported the Seventh Day Adventist sect in order to weaken the Orthodox Church. In 1928, the number of parishioners was already 13.5 thousand people, most of them were Germans. In 1928, a split occurred in the sect. The reason was the different attitude of pastors to military service.
In the 1930s, community leaders were repressed. In 1941, the entire leadership of the church of German origin was deported. They were sent to the Kazakh SSR and Siberia. After World War II, German influence in the sect was minimal.
In 1988, in the Tula region in the village of Zaokskoe, the main center of the organization was established. He united all the communities of the USSR into one All-Union Church. To date, more than 100 thousand people are adherents of the Adventist sect.
The current situation of the sect
Thirty years ago, the Tula region became a springboard forpromotion of Adventist ideology in Russia. The sectarians built several prayer houses. They own a publishing house and a radio and television center. The Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church founded the Zaokskaya Theological Academy.
In 2005, sectarians tried to fraudulently recruit the youth of Tula. To do this, they rented the Rodina cinema and distributed free invitations to screen an American feature film. The audience realized that they got to the religious missionary event only after the screening began. Thus, the "Law on Freedom of Conscience" was grossly violated.
Adventists have developed clever ways to attract new people to the sect. They often arrange "He alth Exhibitions" in parks and other public places. They measure blood pressure for free, do massages, treat them with environmentally friendly products. They organize karaoke contests where they sing Seventh-day Adventist songs. Hundreds of interested people come to learn information, while sectarians are actively missionary. Events like these allow the organization to gain hundreds of new members into their networks.
National Security Threat
A huge amount of religious literature is published by a publishing house owned by Seventh-day Adventists. The Sabbath School of the sect uses these books to zombify toddlers, older children and adults. Such literature is not adapted to Russian reality. It carries Western values and elements of culture.
Studysectarian literature depersonalizes a person. He is alienated from the national culture. Becomes indifferent to the faith of their ancestors, which is the foundation of statehood.
There have been cases of sectarians refusing to serve in the army. Adventists go to the courts and get what they want. The American sect is ready to do everything so that in the event of hostilities, as few citizens as possible stand up for their homeland.
Insulting the Orthodox Church
The Seventh-day Adventist sect does not hesitate to openly insult believers of other faiths. Most often, she attacks Orthodox Christians. Every year the situation becomes more and more serious. There is evidence that Adventist talks often denigrate the Orthodox Church.
In 2004, at one of the meetings, the sectarians went so far as to accuse the holy reverend Joseph of Volotsky of massacre against believers. The following year, they insulted the Russian Orthodox Church, claiming that the Great Patriotic War had saved it from oblivion. Allegedly, the fear of death kept the parishioners in her bosom. In addition, the sectarians accused the Orthodox Church of the genocide of Russian Germans.
It's a pity, but the sectarians carefully hide the fact that their organization supported the Nazi regime. They also do not want to remember how the Adventists helped the Nazis expel Jews from the communities.
Cult Killer
In 2016, in Nizhny Novgorod, a man was sentenced to life for ruthlessly killing his pregnant wife, six children and his own mother. According to one version, OlegBelov did it out of compassion. Considering that the end of the world is near, he decided to personally send his relatives to heaven.
For several years, Oleg Belov was a devoted adherent of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he joined it back in 1992. Then he was expelled for adultery. But they were not forbidden to attend meetings, and Belov continued to attend them actively.
Now psychiatrists have to figure out whether the sect caused the insanity of the murderer father, or whether Oleg Belov's problems began much earlier than joining the church.
Reviews about the sect
Any sect is interested in binding a person forever, and Seventh-day Adventists are no exception. Reviews only confirm this. Everything is done in the church to create dependence among the parishioners. The human psyche is very malleable, and if an individual is easily suggestible, then it is even easier to lead and manipulate him.
Most of the reviews that you can read on the net are enthusiastic and are written by active members of the sects. There are much fewer negative stories, not because there are no dissatisfied ones. Psychologists say that people who left sects are devastated and they need a long rehabilitation. They will not discuss their problems on the Internet. Some are just afraid to do it.
Help those who fall into the sect
Sects enslave the individual and destroy families. It is necessary to fight for loved ones in all ways. With the help of strict isolation, a teenager can be pulled out of the clutches of sectarians. But in the event that a person is morally or physically stronger, this cannot be done.succeed.
You can call on relatives for help. Sometimes law enforcement agencies help. If possible, a novice sectarian should be taken to a psychologist. But first of all, you should try to understand the reason why a loved one was trapped. You need to try all means. The sooner you start fighting, the more likely you are to succeed.
