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 ==Help requested at Criticism of the Seventh-day Adventist Church== 

 The current section titled Cult status at Criticism of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, where the Seventh-day Adventist church is accused of being a cult, is not written in the usual accusation/answer format and displays no rational response to the charge. The statement about ""allegations of Adventist insularism and warnings about mixing with non-Christians and even non-Adventists"" isn't referenced and the current response, which is also not referenced, that the schools of the cult ""are open to all"" doesn't refute the charge of being a cult.  

 The current section reads as follows: 

 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 . For Martin, this was a reversal of his earlier 1955 classification of Adventism as a cult. Many evangelicals followed this 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. This can be viewed as an increasing acceptance of the Adventist church into the Christian fold, since many of these other Christian groups were previously very opposed to Adventist teaching. Although he later reversed this opinion and belief and later expanded his position in his 1960 book-length treatment, The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism. 

 Others class Adventism as an unorthodox Christian denomination, including, for example, John Whitcomb, Jr. Allegations of Adventist insularism and warnings about mixing with non-Christians and even non-Adventists, and the importance placed on Adventist education for children are also major allegations of what is colloquially thought of as cult-like behavior. In their defense, Adventists respond that their educational system is designed to instill character and faith in their children; indeed, Adventist schools are open to all. 

 In describing their opposition to ecumenical changes, some Adventists refer to Ellen White, who wrote that ""Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from heaven."" 

 I propose the following improvement: 

 ===Cult status=== 
 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.Walter Martin Interview, Adventist Currents, Vol. 1, No. 1, July, 1983, conducted by Douglas Hackleman. For Martin, this was a reversal of his earlier 1955 classification of Adventism as a cult. Many evangelicals followed this 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. This can be viewed as an increasing acceptance of the Adventist church into the Christian fold, since many of these other Christian groups were previously very opposed to Adventist teaching. Although he later reversed this opinion and belief and later expanded his position in his 1960 book-length treatment, The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Martin 

 Richard Kyle, an evangelical Christian writing from the perspective of a historian in his largely uncritical book, ''The Religious Fringe: A History Of Alternative Rel