 They believed Adventists were largely in harmony with the gospel, except for the sanctuary and Ellen White's authority.Barnhouse criticized,

According to Raymond Cottrell, the editors of the "Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary" in 1955 found it "hopelessly impossible" to combine both solid Bible scholarship with what Adventists believed and taught about and .In 1958 when revising "Bible Readings" for republication, Cottrell sought the opinion of 27 North American Adventist theologians who knew Hebrew, and also heads of religion departments, concerning the interpretation of Daniel 8