Seventh-day Adventists Believe: A Biblical Exposition of Fundamental Doctrines

This is the Seventh-day Adventist Church's own official exposition of its fundamental beliefs, including its doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary and the investigative judgment that the Church itself dates from 1844, the year the Great Disappointment left the earlier, failed expectation of Christ's physical return behind. It is cited here as the Church's own documented account of how it reinterpreted the Millerite date rather than abandoning it outright, not as independent evidence that the sanctuary doctrine is correct. The statement has been revised since its first edition, and this record does not assert that every wording cited reflects the current printing. Use it to establish the Church's own official position on the sanctuary doctrine and the investigative judgment; a claim about how individual Adventist scholars have debated the doctrine's exegetical basis needs a separate, dedicated source.