SCOUT· 54%1h 18m·2026-09-15·Relationships91. Growing up Seventh-Day Adventist (Melissa Duge Spiers' Story)
Melissa Duge Spiers grew up Seventh-day Adventist in a world shaped by strict rules, purity culture, and expectations of what it meant to be a good Christian woman. We talk about Ellen G. White and the beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Melissa’s rebellion and eventual separation from her upbringing, and…
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“What I find amazing about this interview is her experiences as a white woman in the Adventist church is not what I experience as a black man raised in the Adventist church. I attended a couple of Adventist academy schools and I have never e…”
“19:06 The Adventists saying the Catholic church is gonna round everyone up to make them worship on Sunday Only Specifically even tho there are So Many Saturday masses at so many Catholic parishes 🤔🤷😂 Saturday was our mass day of choice w…”
“In college I had a classmate that was atheist who called my church a cult and it made me feel some type a way. Fast-forward 6 years later I started deconstructing and realized that he was in fact right. Seventh-Day Adventism is a cult just…”
“I grew up in Worldwide church of God, created by Herbert W. Armstrong. He took ideas from seventh day but Armstrong rejected core orthodox Christian doctrines like the Trinity and taught concepts such as British Israelism. Observing the Sab…”
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