Shadrach and the King

The King sat on his throne and faced the nations that were gathered at his feet. "Next, Shadrach Santosidad!" An angel hurriedly finds Shad and brings him to the judgment seat.

"Shadrach, do you love me?" asked the King.

"Yes I love you my king" was Shad's almost inaudible yet confident reply.

"Did you keep my commandments?" the King followed up.

"Yes my King, I kept the Sabbath holy, didn't worship idols, didn't kill... all 10 commandments I have kept to the letter."

"Not so fast," says the King. "I didn't mean the Law of Moses - the 10 Commandments, that I gave exclusively to the descendants of Joseph - the grandson of Abraham, as a covenant. What I mean now are commandments that came straight from my mouth like, 'love your enemies,' 'do not judge' and many more."

Shadrach looked down at his toes and tries to recall his past. He remembers hating the hordes of rats that came to eat his corn and he thought that maybe the King didn't mean that. But his mind brought him back to a church board meeting where they passed judgement on someone.

"That's what I mean Shad" the King apparently reading Shadrach's thoughts, interrupts his musings. "Did you judge Sunny?"

"Yes King, we judged him because he would not listen to our reasoning with him. His baptism into our organization gave us the authority to judge him."

"Who told you to defy my commandment, Shad?"

"The woman oh King, the prophetess to whom you gave dreams and visions about the evils of coffee, wigs, masturbation, meat and many more." Shadrach exclaimed while trying to steady himself.

"Never mind that woman, she'll have her time here and don't use that reasoning with me, because Adam already blamed a woman when he accused Eve in the garden."

The loud buzz of the alarm clock jolted Shadrach from his sleep. "That dream was bizarre," he mused.

The body of Christ vs the Cult - 2

you will find this page's prequel in this link:
http://sunnimoreno.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-body-of-christ-vs-cult.html

A day after the exchange in the discussion Shad posted this:

What does the declaration of Shad say about his organization:
1. That they are actively subjecting their members to scrutiny and each one is judged according to the manual.
2. That they cannot tolerate members who come to worship who are known to have committed sin and are not receptive to their advice and admonition.
3. That baptism for them is an act of accepting the 'believer' into the organization as opposed to the biblical purpose for baptism, which is a only a public declaration that the person has accepted Jesus.
4. That after baptism the member becomes a subject who is under the rules stated in the manual and any offense against these rules deserve punitive action as decided by the officers of the organization. In other words, baptism to them is a badge of authority to judge someone even if it is a direct defiance against the command of Jesus.
5. That the Bible is not the guiding standard for behavior. They would rather uphold a manual apparently authored by a prophetess. 
6. That they claim to have divine authority to exact discipline on the erring member.

Let me ask the question once more: Can this organization - the Seventh-day Adventist church be considered the Body of Christ or is it a cult?

The body of Christ vs the Cult - 1

Each new day brings inspiration and motivation for this blogger to activate the laptop. Today is no exemption although the inspiration surprisingly came through a discussion thread in Facebook. 

Here is a snapshot of the thread in FB:

For starters, the participants in this discussion were schoolmates during college days and were enrolled at a Seventh-day Adventist college in the island of Mindanao, Philippines.

Shad River Saint retired from this school as a professor and still lives in the vicinity, Macie presently resides in the state of Nevada USA, while Renato owns and manages a hospital in the southern Philippines. This blogger is the guy whom Shad alluded to when he said "Some are simply confused. Actuslly some of them have long been droppef from our church."

Forget the topic of that thread for now, while we try to compare Shad's comment with the facts as outlined in God's Word - the Bible.

What does Paul teach regarding the baptized believer? 
1 Corinthians 12:

The Bible says that the believer is baptized into the Body of Christ and that's what all true christians uphold and teach. You will never find instruction or example in the Bible that the believer was baptized into an organization.

On another aspect let's take a look at the passage in Shad's organization's manual.

Shad's organization's manual says that they have been "conferred the power to act in Christ's stead" and they have the power to judge. This means that they claim to be the vicar of Christ, and on them is given the power to determine who will be bound or loosed from heaven and their decision will be ratified by God. 

Contrary to this, what did Jesus say in Matthew 7:1? "Judge not that ye be not judged."

I will not discuss further this issue, but let me present this question to the reader: Comparing Shad's comments to Biblical fact regarding his admission that his church is an organization and that its leaders have authority regarding who will be kept or loosed from heaven's records (damned or saved), is Shad's church a part of the BODY of CHRIST or is it a CULT?