- Founder, prophetess, and prolific author [Ellen G. White]? - Health message including vegetarianism and abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine - Belief in a literal six day creation culminating in a seventh-day of rest
While Adventist theology remains quite similar to its 19th century Protestant roots, one notable exception is the belief that death is a sleep during which the "dead know nothing" (Ecclesiastes 9:5). This doctrine hangs upon the notion that the body and the soul perish together at death and are resurrected as one at the second coming of Jesus.