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Criticism of the Seventh-day Adventist Church includes observations made about its teachings, structure, and practices or theological disagreements from various individuals and groups.
Thirty years ago, cult expert Walter R. Martin published The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism, offering the controversial opinion that Adventists were not a cult, but an essentially orthodox...
He was also one of the sources of inspiration used to create the fictional cult leader Joseph Seed in the 2018 action-adventure video game Far Cry 5. [63] In 2011, British indie rock band The Indelicates released a concept album, David Koresh Superstar, about Koresh and the Waco siege.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) [5] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [6] [7] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [8] the seventh day of the week in the Christian and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [7] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist ...
Based on this definition, the Seventh Day Adventist Church could be considered a cult. While they call themselves Christian (and probably many who attend Adventist churches are, in fact, believers in Jesus Christ), the organization itself professes unbiblical and harmful doctrines and beliefs outside the mainstream of orthodox Christianity.
This piece considers the ways in which the terms “cult,” “sect,” and “denomination” are used in everyday language, within Christian circles and in sociology, and tests the applicability of these senses of the terms to Seventh-day Adventism.
By and large, the public treated the ending of the siege of Waco as the story of a crazy cult that had gotten the end it deserved, similar to the mass suicide at Jonestown.
