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Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) considered themselves Protestant Christians, claiming that salvation is attained by faith in Jesus and that the Bible, and only the Bible, determines faith and practice. However, Seventh-day Adventists are unique among other Protestant groups in that they teach that justification and sanctification are evidenced by a life of obedience to the Ten Commandments, including the observance of the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, and that they announce the imminent second return of Christ when He will establish His reign of glory.
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Panama: a country in the southern section of the Central American Isthmus organized in political entities named provincia.
Member: an individual that is baptized after making alliance to Christ and the SDA Church Fundamental Beliefs.
Missionary/church worker: a person employed by the church to help in promoting the Christian faith.
Church: a group of 25 or more baptized members formally organized that...
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Grajales, T. (2019). Adventism in Panama. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Religions of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_402
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