Official Statements

These pages present statements and guidelines discussed, approved and voted by the church leadership since 1980

• Introduction
• Mission Statement
• Abuse and Family Violence
• AIDS
• Assault Weapons
• Birth Control: A Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Consensus
• Caring for Creation—A Statement on the Environment
• Care for the Dying
• Chemical Use, Abuse, and Dependency
• Children, Well-being and Value
• Climate Change
• Creation: An Affirmation of
• Creation: A Response to "An Affirmation of Creation"
• Competition
• Drugs
• Environment
• Stewardship of the Environment
• Family
• Family Violence
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Gambling
• Gene Therapy
• Health-Care Institutions
• Home and Family
• Homelessness and Poverty
• Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Position Statement on
• Human Cloning
• Human Relations
• Human Rights (50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of)
• Kosovo (Crisis In)
• Literacy
• Marriage
• Peace
• A Seventh-day Adventist Call for Peace
• Peace Message to All People of Good Will
• Pornography
• Proselytism
• Racism
• Religious Freedom
• Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom: A Statement of Commitment and Concern
• Roman Catholicism (How Seventh-day Adventists View)
• Same Sex Unions
• Scriptures
• Sexual Abuse (Child)
• Sexual Behavior
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Smoking and Ethics
• Smoking and Tobacco
• Spirit of Prophecy
• Spiritual Renewal
• Temperance Principles and Acceptance of Donations
• Theological and Academic Freedom and Accountability
• Tolerance
• Values Statement
• War in Iraq
• Women's Issues
• Year 2000