Hoekema discusses whether Seventh-day Adventism is to be considered as belonging to the cults, or as a denomination which may be classed with the evangelical churches.
Martin says that it should be carefully remembered that the Adventism of today is different in not a few places from the Adventism of 1844, and that a new evaluation is necessary.
Walter Martin, the well-known cult researcher and Christian apologist, went to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1955 to make sure he accurately understood SDA doctrinal positions.