Is Seventh-day Adventism a cult?
The short answer
No. It promotes some strange ideas, some with an anti-Catholic basis, but it is a genuinely Christian denomination: its members are validly baptized and Christian in their beliefs — unlike Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Not a cult
Seventh-day Adventism promotes some strange ideas, including some with an anti-Catholic foundation, but it is a genuinely Christian denomination.
Truly Christian
Its members are validly baptized and theologically Christian in their beliefs — unlike, for example, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, who are neither.
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