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Yes, but...The short answer to this question is "yes." The Adventist church in a recent General Conference Session, changed the number of its basic beliefs from 27 to 28. This newly numbered belief had been part of the beliefs of Adventists but not explicitly differentiated from some related doctrines.

The long answer is that the Seventh-day Adventist Church does not hold to a specific creed as many other denominations do, but believes that new truth may be discovered or identified through time, which is why it has no actual static creed, but a list of basic beliefs which can change as necessary (though only in a session of the General Conference, the church's highest governing body, which has a session every five years). This "new light" concept is related to the fact that the church officially accepts the writings of what they consider to be a modern-day prophet, Ellen G. White, one of the founders of their church.
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