Editing Seventh-day Adventist Church (section)

===Exclusivism===
Critics have alleged that certain Adventist beliefs and practices are exclusivist in nature, and they point to the Adventist claim to be the "[[Remnant (Adventist)|remnant church]]", and the traditional Protestant association of [[Roman Catholicism]] with "[[Babylon (New Testament)|Babylon]]".<ref name="SDACatholic">{{cite web
| title=How Seventh-day Adventists View Roman Catholicism
| publisher=[[General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists]] Administrative Committee
| date=April 15, 1997
| url=http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main_stat42.html
| access-date=January 11, 2007
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206202225/http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main_stat42.html
| archive-date=December 6, 2006
| url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title       = Seventh-Day Adventism
| publisher   = Catholic Answers
| url         = http://www.catholic.com/library/Seventh_Day_Adventism.asp
| access-date  = February 5, 2007
| url-status     = dead
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070203061247/http://www.catholic.com/library/Seventh_Day_Adventism.asp
| archive-date = February 3, 2007
}}</ref><ref>See also [[Questions on Doctrine]], chapters 20 and 21; and {{Cite book|author=Anthony Hoekema|title=The Four Major Cults|year=1963|pages=128–132|publisher=Paternoster Press |isbn=978-0-85364-094-3}}</ref> These attitudes are said to legitimize the [[proselytism|proselytising]] of Christians from other denominations. In response to such criticisms, Adventist theologians have stated that the doctrine of the remnant does not preclude the existence of genuine Christians in other denominations but is concerned with institutions.<ref>{{cite web
| title        = The Remnant and the Adventist Church
| author       = Ángel Manuel Rodríguez
| date         = October 2002
| publisher    = [[Biblical Research Institute]]
| url          = http://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/documents/remnantSDAchurch.htm
| access-date  = February 5, 2007
| archive-date = March 22, 2007
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070322061929/http://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/documents/remnantSDAchurch.htm
| url-status   = dead
}}</ref>