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
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.
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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.
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, and our fellow man.
Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.
I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself...
When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, "No, not that song. No way."