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Seventh-day Adventists and Life Insurance
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Voted:
1. To urge all believers, especially those who have financial responsibility for families, to make a thoughtful, planned provision for meeting unforseen emergencies that affect themselves and their families.
2. To regard those forms of life insurance which offer no conflict with Christian principles as legitimate means of making provision for times of need.
3. To consider that decisions regarding the degree to which insurance policies are used to contribute to family financial planning are a matter of personal conscience, and that the church should take no official position in that respect.
4. To counsel that the act of providing for future needs grants no license for the exercise of greed.
5. To advise those who endeavor to make provision for the future to exercise care lest selfish motives become a part of their planning.
6. To educate church members through the stewardship ministry regarding sound principles of family financial planning.
7. To take no steps as a church toward establishing or promoting any form of general life insurance for members.
General Conference Officers, 1985