Personally I think that Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses have faced opposition from established forms of Christianity and government due to their different interpretations of their beliefs. One reason is that Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider themselves Protestant as Seventh-day Adventists believe. Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists separated due to their different ways of working towards God and the teachings of the Bible. For example, in the book World Religions in America, chapter 13 by Dell deChant mentions: “However, the Witnesses share common elements with many Protestant groups. First there is the acceptance of the Bible as the inspired Word of God. The official Witness Bible is the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, a text produced by the movement. Even though it contains the sixty-six books found in Protestant Bibles.” Because Seventh-day Adventists consider themselves Protestants, they follow the Bible and do not use the New World Translation as Jehovah's Witnesses do. This is one of the problems that will interfere with the different beliefs between these two religions and pose different thinking. On the part of Jehovah's Witnesses, the use of these different versions leads them to conclude that God dies on a stake and not on a cross, which Seventh-day Adventists make conclude differently based on the original version of the
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