The Church of God (7th Day) is a Bible believing church and we base our church on the Bible and only the Bible.  Because of this focus on the Bible, we do not follow religious traditions such as keeping Sunday as the Lord's day and the celebration of Christmas.  We believe the Bible to be the only inspired word of God and since these traditions are not found in the Bible, we do not include them or promote them within our worship services.

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God established the seventh day, or Sabbath, to be a day of rest and worship for man.  Man was commanded by God to keep this day holy and to refrain from his daily labor on the Sabbath.  The Sabbath was established on the seventh day, which falls on Saturday on our current calendar.  The law regarding the Sabbath is part of the Ten Commandments which are part of the Melchisedec priesthood and was not done away with when Jesus came to the Earth.

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God created the Earth and everything in it.  Some animals (like cows, sheep, and chickens) he created for consumption by man and some (like horses, dogs, and pigs) were not to be eaten.  Instructions concerning these animals were given to Noah and the details of which animals were clean and which were unclean were reitereated to the Children of Israel before they entered the promise land.  The law of the clean and the unclean was established before the Levitical law and is therefore part of the Melchisedec priesthood.  Jesus did not do away with the law of the clean and the unclean and we are to follow it today.

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The date of Jesus's birth is not known.  We know that it was sometime in the autumn when people within the Roman empire were commanded to return to the place of their birth for tax purposes.  The Bible gives us no instructions as to the celebration of Jesus's birth.  The practice of celebrating Jesus's birth on December 25th was established by the Roman Catholic Church to encorporate the Pagan holiday of the rebirth of the Sun god right after the winter solstace.  We do not celebrate December 25th because we do not wish to be associated with the Pagan holiday of the Sun god's rebirth.

The Church of God (7th Day) keeps the Lord's Supper as instituted by Jesus shortly before his death.  The name of the holiday "Easter" comes from the celebration of the Pagan god "Ishtar" and the holiday was also instituted when the Roman Catholic Church merged the Christian and Pagan religions.  We do not keep the holiday to the Pagan god "Ishtar" and instead celebrate the events surrounding Jesus's death in the way that Jesus commanded, the Lord's Supper.

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We believe that when people die, they remain unconscious in their graves until Jesus returns.  At that time everyone will be resurrected and will face judgement.  The saints will receive eternal life on a remade planet Earth and the sinners will be cast into the Lake of Fire where they will be consumed with fire and cease to exist.  The belief in an immortal soul they either goes to Heaven or Hell when a person dies is not supported by the Bible and was grafted into Christianity from Greek and Roman Mythology.  We do not believe in an immortal soul and we believe that eternal life is a conditional reward given only to God's people.

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We believe in one true God who is the creator of all.  He is omnipotent, omnicient, and omnipresent.  He sent his son to Earth to be a sacrifice for our sins.  He is a separate being from his son, Jesus.  The Holy Spirit is the power of God and not a separate being with a separate consciousness.  

We do not believe in the teaching of the Trinity, in which the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three parts of a single being who is God.  We believe the Father and the Son are separate beings with separate consciousnesses and that the Holy Spirit is not a conscious being but instead the power of God.

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We believe that baptism is essential for salvation and is the key event that signifies a believer has turned his/her  life over to Jesus Christ.  We believe baptism should be performed in the same manner as it was done by the apostles in the New Testament.  In order to be baptised, believers must repent of their sins, accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior, turn their lives over to Christ, and pledge to follow the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus.  Believers are then totally immersed in water to signify the death and subsequent resurrection of Jesus.  Baptism is to be performed in the name Lord Jesus Christ and is to be followed by the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Spirit.

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