Nor will you since Mormons totally despise Walter Martin, Who died in 1989.
I own kingdom of cults and listened to Dr. Martin on the John Akerberg Show many times.
He most assuredly called Mormons, JW'S and SDA cults.
Walter Martin's Religious InfoNet
APPENDIX C
The Puzzle of seventh-Day Adventists
Preface
In a volume such as this dealing with the problem of non-Christian cults, the question might logically be
asked, “Why include Seventh-day Adventism, especially since the writer has classified them in a fulllength
volume as a Christian denomination?”
The answer to this is that for over a century Adventism has borne a stigma of being called a non-Christian
cult system. Whether or not this was justified in the early development of Adventism, this has already
been discussed at length in an earlier book,1 but it should be carefully remembered that the Adventism of
today is different in not a few places from the Adventism of 1844, and with that change the necessity of
new evaluation comes naturally.
Together with the Evangelical Foundation (founded by the late Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse and
publishers of the now-defunct Eternity magazine), we conducted a thorough new evaluation of the
Seventh-day Adventists several years ago. The results of that new evaluation were presented
comprehensively in the book The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism and then later in the previous
editions of this volume.
It is my conviction that one cannot be a true Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon, Christian Scientist, etc., and be
a Christian in the biblical sense of the term;
but it is perfectly possible to be a Seventh-day Adventist and
be a true follower of Jesus Christ despite certain heterodox concepts, which will be discussed.
Such Christian leaders as Louis T. Talbot, M. R. DeHaan, John R. Rice, Anthony A. Hoekema, J. K. Van
Baalen, Herbert Bird, and John R. Gerstner have taken the position that Adventism is in fact a cult
system; whereas, the late Donald Grey Barnhouse, myself, E. Schuyler English, and quite a few others
have concluded the opposite.
Since the opposing view has had wide circulation over a long period of time, I felt it was necessary to
include here Seventh-day Adventism as a proper counterbalance—presenting the other side of Adventism
and representing the theology of Adventism as the Adventists themselves believe it and not as many
critics have caricatured it.
This, of course, is not to be construed in any sense of the term as an endorsement of the entire theological
structure of Seventh-day Adventism, a portion of which is definitely out of the mainstream of historical
Christian theology and which I have taken pains to refute. But I believe it is only fair and ethical to
consider both sides of an extremely difficult and provocative controversy, which shows very little sign of
abating in our day.
From Kingdom of the Cults; Walter Martin
