 The doctrine of the Investigative Judgment is outlined in item 24, "Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary", of the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental beliefs.In the original Fundamental Beliefs of 1980 it was item 23, but when item 11 was added by the General Conference in 2005 it was changed to item 24.The doctrine as featured in the earlier published beliefs was often spread out across multiple statements.