Adventists beliefs are in line with the traditional teachings of historic Christianity as derived from the Bible and confirmed through the ancient ecumenical creeds. As such, Adventists do not belong to a cult.

Dr Walter Martin, founder and director of the Christian Research Institute (www.equip.org) and author of The Kingdom of Cults, an authoritative reference work on major cult systems for nearly forty years, also called the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church “orthodox” and refused to label the church a cult.

1. Do Adventists give and accept blood?
2. Do Adventists meet on Saturday just to be different?
3. Do Adventists promote alternative health remedies and diets above conventional medical treatments?
4. Do Adventists believe they need to do good works to go to heaven?
5. Do Adventists believe Ellen G. White and her writings to be as important as God and the Bible?
6. Do people have to be vegetarians to be Adventists?
7. Do Adventists believe that only 144,000 people will go to heaven and that they will only be Seventh-day Adventists?
8. Do Adventists consider themselves to be the only true, remnant church?
9. Do Adventists belong to a cult?
10. Do Adventists believe in a pre-determined date for the second coming of Jesus Christ?
11. Do Adventists dislike Catholic people?
12. Do Adventists have their own edition of the Bible called the Clear Word?
13. Do Adventists believe in the same things as Jehovah's Witnesses?
14. Do Adventists think that the media persecuted the church during the Lindy Chamberlain incident?