Luke Ford writes: I remember growing up that Seventh-Day Adventism was regarded as a demanding religion. It wanted one-tenth of your money (tithe) and one-seventh of your time (the Sabbath).
Then this righteousness by faith movement swept through Adventism in the 1970s and a lot of people felt tremendous relief that they now had heavenly salvation from sin solely through their faith in Christ. There was no longer anything they had to do to be saved.
This made them very happy.
But the only people it made very happy were those who had grown up with the lash of the law. Those who grew up with righteousness by faith, well, it left religion a pretty empty matter for them.
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