You may be surprised that it wasn't the Sabbath. As a Jesuit influence entered Adventistism, the commandment that was attacked wasn't the 4th but rather the first.
Exodus 20:2-3 (ASV)
2 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Why was this commandment the object of the infiltrators, such as Leroy Froom, rather than the Sabbath?
"The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the church..." Handbook for Today's Catholic, p. 11.
If the Jesuit infiltrators could get Adventists to adopt their Catholic god, then that would then nullify their Sabbath keeping. The above quote says it all, the Trinity is the foundation to all the other doctrines of Rome.
Sunday keeping is done in honor of the Holy Trinity!
"Dies Solis - The Day of the Sun.
Q. What is Sunday, or the Lord's Day in general?
A. It is a day dedicated by the Apostles to the honour of the most holy Trinity, and in memory that Christ our Lord arose from the dead upon Sunday, sent down the holy Ghost on a Sunday, &c. and therefore is called the Lord's Day. It is also calledSunday from the old Roman denomination of Dies Solis, the day of the sun, to which it was sacred."
Source: The Douay Catechism, (An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine) of 1649, by Henry Tuberville, D.D., published by P. J. Kenedy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 5 Barclay Street, New York, approved and recommended for his diocese by the Right Rev. Benedict, Bishop of Boston, April 24th, 1833, page 143.
From Catholic Culture website:
"SIGN OF THE CROSS — The making of the sign of the cross, which professes faith both in the redemption of Christ and in the Trinity, was practiced from the earliest centuries. Saint Augustine (431) mentioned and described it many times in his sermons and letters.6 In those days Christians made the sign of the cross (Redemption) with three fingers (Trinity) on their foreheads. The words ("In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost") were added later. Almost two hundred years before Augustine, in the third century, Tertullian had already reported this touching and beautiful early Christian practice:
In all our undertakings — when we enter a place or leave it; before we dress; before we bathe; when we take our meals; when we light the lamps in the evening; before we retire at night; when we sit down to read; before each new task — we trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads."
"The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the church..." Handbook for Today's Catholic, p. 11.
Revelation 17:5 (KJV)
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
From Omega777 website:
The Trinity -- Central Doctrine of the Catholic Faith
The Council of Constantinople
"At the beginning of the year 381 Theodosius issued an edict expelling from all the churches within his dominions, all the bishops and other ecclesiastics who should refuse to subscribe to the creed of Nice." Milman'History of Christianity,' book iii, chap. ix, p. 391, 392.
Up until this time the main part of the controversy was over the relationship of the Father and His Son. But with this new creed the addition of the Holy Spirit as a third individual was added. It was thus that the actual doctrine of the Trinity was first presented in a creed. "The burning question of the decades succeeding the Council of Nicaea was how to state the relations of the Three Person of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The council had decided, and the papacy had appropriated the decision as its own" Benjamin G. Wilkinson, Truth Triumphant, p. 93.
"The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the church..." Handbook for Catholics
"The church studied this mystery with great care and, after four centuries of clarification, decided to state the doctrine in this way: in the unity of the Godhead there are three Persons,--the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit..." (Handbook for Today's Catholic, page 11).
"Our opponents [Protestants] sometimes claim that no belief should be held dogmatically which is not explicitly stated in Scripture (ignoring that it is only on the authority of the Church we recognize certain Gospels and not others as true). But the Protestant churches have themselves accepted such dogmas as the Trinity for which there is no such precise authority in the Gospels..." (Life Magazine, October 30, 1950).
The Catholic Church did not acquire the doctrine of the Trinity from the Bible, but rather adopted it from pagan religions.
"The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the national philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches.... This Greek philosopher's [Plato, fourth century B.C.] conception of the divine trinity... can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions." (Paris, 1865-1870, Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, edited by M. Lachatre, Vol. 2, page 1467)."
The first angels message!
Revelation 14:6-7 (KJV)
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Fear God (Jehovah) not a trinity!
Revelation 14:1 (KJV)
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
The Father's name Jehovah is written on the foreheads of the 144,000 redeemed not "The Holy Trinity".
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