Editing Seventh-day Adventist Church (section)

===Doctrines===
Several teachings that have come under scrutiny are the [[annihilationism|annihilationist]] view of [[hell]], the [[investigative judgment]] (and a related view of the [[Atonement in Christianity|atonement]]), and the Sabbath. Critics such as evangelical [[Anthony Hoekema]] (who felt that Adventists were more in agreement with [[Arminianism]]) argued that some Adventist doctrines were [[heterodoxy|heterodox]]. In addition, Hoekema also claimed that Adventist doctrine suffers from [[Legalism (theology)|legalism]].<ref>{{Cite book|author=Anthony Hoekema|title=The Four Major Cults|year=1963|pages=115–128, 144–169|publisher=Paternoster Press |isbn=978-0-85364-094-3|author-link=Anthony Hoekema}}</ref>

While critics such as Hoekema have classified Adventism as a [[sectarian]] group on the basis of its atypical doctrines,<ref name="Samples_updated"/><ref name="autogenerated1963"/> it has been accepted as more mainstream by Protestant evangelicals since its meetings and discussions with evangelicals in the 1950s.<ref>George R. Knight "A Search For Identity The Development of Seventh-Day Adventist Beliefs", Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2000, p. 165</ref> [[Billy Graham (evangelist)|Billy Graham]] invited Adventists to be part of his crusades after ''[[Eternity (magazine)|Eternity]]'', a conservative Christian magazine edited by [[Donald Barnhouse]], asserted in 1956 that Adventists are Christians. He also later stated, "They are sound on the great New Testament doctrines including grace and redemption through the vicarious offering of Jesus Christ 'once for all{{'"}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adventists and Evangelicals: another viewpoint |url=https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1993/06/adventists-and-evangelicals-another-viewpoint |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=www.ministrymagazine.org |language=en}}</ref> [[Walter Ralston Martin|Walter Martin]], who is considered by many to be the father of the [[Christian countercult movement|counter-cult apologetics movement within evangelicalism]], authored ''The Truth About Seventh-day Adventists'' (1960) which marked a turning point in the way Adventism was viewed:<ref>Donald Grey Barnhouse, "Are Seventh-day Adventists Christians?" Eternity, September 1956, p. 7.</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Dickinson |first=Loren |date=November 2, 2006 |title=The Day Adventists Became Christians |publisher=Spectrum}}</ref> "It is perfectly possible to be a Seventh-day Adventist and be a true follower of Jesus Christ despite [[heterodox]] concepts".<ref>Walter Martin, ''Kingdom of the Cults'' Off-site Link (Bethany House, Minneapolis, Minnesota), Updated edition 1997, p. 517.</ref>

Later on, Martin planned to write a new book on Seventh-day Adventism, with the assistance of Kenneth R. Samples.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://qod.andrews.edu/docs/08_kenneth_samples.doc|title=Evangelical Reflections on Seventh-day Adventism: Yesterday and Today, by Kenneth Richard Samples|website=andrews.edu|access-date=July 10, 2009|archive-date=May 12, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512202713/http://qod.andrews.edu/docs/08_kenneth_samples.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref> Samples subsequently authored "From Controversy to Crisis: An Updated Assessment of Seventh-day Adventism", which upholds Martin's view "for that segment of Adventism which holds to the position stated in [[QOD]], and further expressed in the Evangelical Adventist movement of the last few decades." However, Samples also claimed that "Traditional Adventism" appeared "to be moving further away from a number of positions taken in QOD", and at least at [[Sanctuary Review Committee|Glacier View]] seemed to have "gained the support of many administrators and leaders".<ref>[http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0005b.html "From Controversy to Crisis: An Updated Assessment of Seventh-day Adventism] by Kenneth R. Samples, Christian Research Institute Journal Christian Research Journal, Summer 1988, Volume 11, Number 1</ref>