Opponents from without, revisionists within, use "1844" to deny biblical basis for the existence of the Seventh-day Adventist church:
Harold Lindsell: If 1844 is not biblical, there is "no adequate basis for the existence of the Seventh-day Adventists" (he would wipe us off the face of the earth).
Donald Barnhouse: "You were founded on a lie.
Seventh-day Adventism will have to go back into the same position as Mormonism."
W. H. Olson: The "whole 1844 structure falls
apart."
Raymond Cottrell: No Bible support for 1844 (only Ellen White's). In February 2002, is even more severely critical of our sanctuary doctrine.
Norman Jarnes: "The fundamental pillar of the Seventh-day Adventist church is
built on the October 22, 1844 event and when that goes, traditional Adventism goes."
Ellen White agrees that the Seventh-day Adventist church was founded on our understanding of Daniel 8:11-14: The sanctuary doctrine (with 1844) is "the foundation of our faith," "the central pillar that sustains the structure of our position," "the very message that has made us a separate people,
and given character and power to our work." (Letter 126, 1897; Ev 221-225.)
Some students now digging deeply into Seventh-day Adventist history and Hebrew linguistics, re-affirm the pioneer view, as the thesis of this outline suggests.