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Christadelphian
/ ˌɪəˈɛɪə /
noun
- a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead
adjective
- of or relating to this body or its beliefs and practices
Word History and Origins
Origin of Christadelphian1
Example Sentences
She recalled the Christadelphian family who sponsored her and whose only son had died.
His parents are members of the fundamentalist Christadelphian sect, and he grew up in Nottingham in a strictly regulated household where Christmas was not celebrated – he got no presents – and TV was forbidden.
So he threw away all the meal he hadn't sold; and then the new machinery was pulled out and the millstones replaced, "to await the Lord's coming," he added, being a Second Adventist—or by his own title a "Christadelphian and an Old Bachelor."
Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian�which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect.
Australia, the Christadelphian Church ran an ad in the Courier Mail: "A vital address on the possibility of obtaining Immorality will be given by Mr. A. C. Mogg."
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