1. Both are Christian bodies.
2. Both practice baptism of believers by immersion.
3. Both practice open communion.
4. Both observe the only Biblical Sabbath-the seventh day of the week-Saturday.
5. Both express a free form of worship.
6. Both believe in the separation of church and state.

1. Seventh Day Baptists hold to the historic Protestant principle that the Bible-and only the Bible-is the authoritative source of our faith. Seventh-day Adventists hold that Mrs. Ellen G. White was an inspired prophetess, and that her writings are to be received as authoritative in the church. Adventists call this unique doctrine "The Spirit of Prophecy." Seventh Day Baptists believe that Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to guide his followers into all truth.

2. Seventh Day Baptists are a covenant people, bound together by loving relationships with God and with each other. They covenant together, agreeing to strengthen these relationships. Doctrinal differences are tolerated within the church family because it is love that holds Seventh Day Baptists together, and not doctrinal uniformity. Seventh Day Adventist are a creedal people, bound together by their doctrinal uniformity. Doctrinal differences cannot be tolerated because uniformity hold them together.

3. Seventh Day Baptists believe in individual interpretation of the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. For this reason they allow for differences of belief and understanding of the Scriptures. Seventh Day Adventists have a denominational set of beliefs, which serves as a creed. Their regimentation in doctrinal belief and their test of doctrinal position by Mrs. White's writings discourage personal search for God's continuing revelation and inhibit personal religious liberty.

4. Seventh-day Adventists lay great stress on "The Third Angel's Message" (Rev. 14:9-12); consider that Christ entered the Holy of Holies in 1844 to cleanse the Heavenly sanctuary; that "The Investigative Judgment" of human lives is now going on in heaven. Seventh Day Baptists reject this interpretation. They agree with other Protestants that Christ's atoning work on the cross accomplished our salvation. This present gift of eternal life assures us of a future free from condemnation.

5. Seventh Day Baptists do not believe they are the only true church nor the only door to salvation. Seventh-day Adventists believe they compose God's remnant church and are the only true church. They teach that they are to call others from "Babylon" (other denominations) into the true church. They believe that when they have completed their task throughout the world, the second coming of Christ will occur.

6. Seventh Day Baptists churches are autonomous. They are congregational in organization. Boards, the General Conference and its committees exercise only delegated or advisory powers to effect the will of church membership. Seventh-day Adventists are much more authoritarian in church organization; local churches and individual members are to a large degree directed by and responsible to the national and regional organizations.