Is todays Seventh Day Adventist church a cult?
Well I did my own research and the WikiPedia article on Seventh Day Adventism seems to be pretty balanced and well done: “Disputes have arisen among counter-cult authors over whether Seventh-day Adventism is a cult. In the late 1950s, Walter Martin and Donald Barnhouse classified Adventism as non-cult-like,[58] a reversal of his earlier 1955 classification of Adventism as a cult. He expanded his position in the 1960 book-length treatment, The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism. Many evangelicals followed this new advice, and continue to do so today, accepting Adventism as an orthodox Christian denomination, even though it holds a few doctrines that are seen as different from mainline Christian churches. Others class Adventism as an unorthodox Christian denomination, including, for example, John Whitcomb, Jr.[59] Anthony Hoekema, a contemporary of Walter Martin, analysed Adventist teachings and came to the conclusion that the Adventist church is a cult which he grouped together with Morm
