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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
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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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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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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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Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else.
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Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?
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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.
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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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Text without context is pretext.
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When I play stuff for my wife she'll be like, No, not that song. No way.
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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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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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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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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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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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It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.
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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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Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.
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When people say, 'I believe in Jesus', look them straight in the eye and ask, 'Which one?'
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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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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.
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