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Since the denomination's founding in the mid-19th century, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been receiving criticism from various individuals and groups. These criticisms include objections to its teachings, structure, and practices. ==Major critics== One of the most prominent early critics of the church was D. M. Canright, an early leader in the movement in the late 19th century who apostatized and recanted but later left and became a Baptist pastor. In the middle of the 20th century, evangelical Walter Martin and the Christian Research Institute concluded that the Seventh-day Adventist church is a legitimate Christian body with some heterodox doctrines and stated, "They are sound on the great New Testament doctrines including grace and redemption through the vicarious offering of Jesus Christ 'once for all'.〔http://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1993/June/adventists-and-evangelicals-another-viewpoint 〕 However, other scholars such as Calvinist Anthony A. Hoekema, who did not agree with the Adventist views from Arminius's as Adventism holds a Wesleyan/Arminian stream of theology, grouped Seventh-day Adventism with Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Science in his book ''The Four Major Cults''. Contemporary critics include former Adventist pastor and academy teacher Dale Ratzlaff, who left the church in the 1980s and later founded Life Assurance Ministries.〔 (LAM Publications, LLC ).〕 In debates regarding the inspiration of Ellen White during the 1970s, Adventists Walter T. Rea and Ronald Numbers wrote material that some felt was critical of Ellen White. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Criticism of the Seventh-day Adventist Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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