Are Seventh Day Adventist's biblical Christians?
1. Did Seventh-day Adventism arise out of Millerism? Yes. According to the Adventist author Francis D. Nichol: “We admit freely, and without the slightest embarrassment, that we grew out of the soil of Millerism” ( Answers to Objections [reprint, 2014], 266–67). 2. Did early twentieth-century evangelical theologians view Seventh-day Adventism as a cult? Yes. For example, evangelical scholars like Louis Talbot, J. K. van Baalen, Harold Lindsell, and Anthony Hoekema viewed the SDA movement as either a cult or a heretical sect. The first prominent evangelical to argue that the SDA movement was not a cult was Walter Martin (though he was highly critical of certain SDA doctrinal distinctives). 3. Do Seventh-day Adventists teach that Christ is performing a second work of atonement in heaven? In contending that SDA is not a cult, Walter Martin argued that Seventh-day Adventists believe Christ’s atonement was fully completed at the cross, and that His current wo...