I spent last Sabbath at the Seventh-Day Adventist university of Loma Linda. During my 30 hours there, I spent a lot of time wondering why this group of Sabbath keepers lived on the margins of society while Sabbath-keeping Jews were so influential in this world.
I came up with these reasons:
* Judaism focuses on this world, Adventism on the next.
* Judaism believes that this world is capable of goodness, Adventism holds that this world is wicked and incapable of reform.
* Judaism believes in study, Adventism in coming to God like a little child.
* Judaism holds that you can save yourself by your deeds, Adventism is conspiracy theory, which appeals to losers and discourages individual achievement.
