Quotes by Walter Martin

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It was Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse who said that simply because a person is a member of a specific denomination, there is no reason to suppose that the entire denomination is represented by that person’s theology,

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Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

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Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood.

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By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the n...

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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries...

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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

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I am not an enemy of Adventism.

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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

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I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

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Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

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