Walter Martin Quotes
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Martin, Walter. The Kingdom of the Cults. Bethany House Publishers, 1965.
These suras are ones that for some fundamentalist extremists justified the killing of Iraqis Muslims who worked with the British, Americans or other Coalition forces in the Iraq war or even politicians who cooperated with the coalition.
This statement in particular was extremely problematical. Sarbi is not just any old Mullah, but the Mufti of Jerusalem, on of the highest ranking Muslims in the World. This statement puts countries like Egypt and Jordan in a very difficult situation as the officials making treaties with the U. S. will be in effect excommunicated.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
Humility and doubt were not characteristics of Martin Luther.
This is a very interesting quotation for it is a stark illustration of a difference between science and many religions that exists, albeit to a lesser extent. The Church fathers had decided that astrologers and alchemists were in league with the Devil and therefore were to be avoided and not heeded. But Augustine clearly tells us that this is so, even of the astrologers / alchemists were right and had the truth. To the scientist the truth trumps all else. To Augustine, avoiding contamination with the Devil—heresy—is more important than learning the truth. The same sort of logic has been a part of much political culture. When the Communists would decry American Racial discrimination, much of the society claimed that, their ideas should not be considered. Communists were evil and to be shunned—even if they were right about a particular area. To the Tea Party of the early 21st century, elite liberals were to be shunned and discounted even if they sometimes had the truth on their side. The origin of the thinking is with Saint Augustine.
He had whipped the crowd up into a feverish pitch until someone rushed the bound and tied blacksmith and stabbed him to death. He had only criticized Mathias for being too harsh and stern a leader.
Walter Ralston Martin, was an American Baptist 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 (1965), he has been dubbed the "godfather of the anti-cult movement".
