Walter Martin
Walter Martin
Walter Ralston Martin, was an American Evangelical Christian minister and author who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a para-church ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics. As the author of the influential The Kingdom of the Cults, he has been dubbed the "godfather of the anti-cult movement"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth10 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a better way than the others, I am an aspect of truth; I am a fragment of the life." Instead, His claim was absolute, and allegiance to Him as the Savior of the world, was to take precedence over all the claims of men and religions.
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.
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.
When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
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.
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.
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
This is huge. I didn't realize how huge it was until I got down here, ... They components they have to take care of... it's a lot, it's a lot. But we're ready for the challenge.
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.
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.