text: I was responding particularly to the part of your quote about our church continuing to "resist the idea of spelling out in detail exactly what someone must believe to be an Adventist."   I think the 2015 Church Manual baptismal section shows that not to be the case, since it is by baptism that most people become Adventists.
  
  If you look at the Church Manual, you can see the evolution of the language from the full vow to the alternative vow to the covenant.  Full Vow:  "Do you know and understand the fundamental Bible principles as taught by the Seventh-day Adventist Church?"  Alternative Vow:   "Do you accept the teachings of the Bible as expressed in the Statement of Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church..."  Covenant:  "The Church has adopted its 28 fundamental beliefs, together with the baptismal vow and Certificate of Baptism and Commitment, as a baptismal covenant."  (One wonders what happens when the FBs are changed after one is baptized!).