1889 Historic Seventh Day Adventists is a reorganization of Seventh-day Adventists upon the SDA principles of faith as published in 1889, with special emphasis on the first two, which identify whom we are to worship. This work was prophecied in what is known as the "First Angel's Message" in Revelation 14:6, 7: "Fear God and give glory to Him.”

I. That there is one God, a personal, spiritual being, the creator of all things, omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal, infinite in wisdom, holiness, justice, goodness, truth, and mercy; unchangeable, and everywhere present by his representative, the Holy Spirit.  Ps. 139:7

II. That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, the one by whom God created all things, and by whom they do consist; ..."

These principles clearly do not embrace the belief of a trinity. In fact, when the Seventh Day Adventists initially formed them, they were unitedly opposed to the doctrine of the Trinity.

James White, one of the original founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, said:

"As fundamental errors, we might class with this counterfeit sabbath other errors which Protestants have brought away from the Catholic church, such as sprinkling for baptism, the trinity, the consciousness of the dead and eternal life in misery . The mass who have held these fundamental errors, have doubtless done it ignorantly; but can it be supposed that the church of Christ will carry along with her these errors till the judgment scenes burst upon the world? We think not.", J. S. White, Review & Herald, September 12, 1854

Joseph Bates, another one of the original founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, said:

"Respecting the trinity, I concluded that it was an impossibility for me to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, was also the Almighty God, the Father, one and the same being. I said to my father, "If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity." J. Bates, The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, pp. 204, 205. 1868}".

J.N. Andrews, another one of the original founders and a leading theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, stated:

"The doctrine of the Trinity which was established in the church by the council of Nice, A. D. 325. This doctrine destroys the personality of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. The infamous, measures by which it was forced upon the church which appear upon the pages of ecclesiastical history might well cause every believer in that doctrine to blush." {J. N. Andrews, Review and Herald, March 6, 1855.