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Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.

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Walter Martin
Age: 60 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 10
Died: 1989
Died: June 26
Clergyman
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Brooklyn
New York
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Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
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Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.
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It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.
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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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In college I had to major in something, so I was like, Okay I like art history, so I will major in that. I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.
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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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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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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.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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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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