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5 Questions for My Seventh-day Adventist Friends

(I'll be using SDA, Adventist, Seventh-day Adventist throughout this post - I hope this is acceptable) There's a large number of Seventh-day Adventist in the Cayman Islands. And if you've ever had a  conversation concerning Christianity or the bible, specifically landing on or simply hinting at the topics of day of "worship" (Saturday vs. Sunday) and/or The Law(Ten Commandments) with a Seventh Day Adventist, you know to expect a gripping verbal battle, that too often ends unfruitfully. Disclaimer: this may or may not be the practice with all SDA's in other jurisdictions. But it seems to be a common dogma of Adventist on these Islands, to seek to engage in a sort of argumentative apologetic. Granted, discussions are rarely done well from either side. So I thought I would pose five questions to my Adventist friends, as a way, I hope, will stimulate better conversations and by God's grace, fortify a more faithful exegisis of the scriptures as the point of r