Daily Caller: Carson grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his father was an active minister. Having been baptized twice before the age of 13, he began to take his Adventist faith seriously after he allegedly attempted to stab a friend.
The enigmatic denomination emerged on the religious scene in the 1820s when William Miller, a veteran of the War of 1812, predicted the second coming of Christ. Several of Miller’s predicted dates passed without fulfillment and many of his followers abandoned the tradition. But a few carried on and attributed the faulty predictions to a misinterpretation on Miller’s part — not a flaw in the original idea.
There are two fundamental tenets of the Adventist Church: Saturday, the original seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath, and Christ will return to earth to test and judge mankind.
The religion also interprets the books in the Bible from a literal lens, taking the book of Genesis to reveal scientific truths.
