Christianity of course is far more than just a series of doctrinal proposition or a code of moral and ethical conduct, since one can be a non-Christian and have all these ingredients. Christianity is first and foremost the Person of the Savior, Jesus Christ, His nature and His work for “us men and our salvation.” Apart from union with Him by faith and the transforming power and presence of His grace in the life, one either embraces the form of what is a dead orthodoxy apart from the Christian ethic and love, or a counterfeit ethic and love devoid of sound Biblical doctrine. These are unattractive alternatives to true redemption, but they are too prominent camps all to apparent in the Christian world today.
— Walter Martin
Cited from Essential Christianity: A Handbook of Basic Christian Doctrines (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1980), preface.
The real faith is never having immaculate cognition of the doctrinal proposition that define authentic Christianity. Neither is it an all-encompassing sentimentality that excludes the striving after doctrinal fidelity. True faith begins and ends with faith in Jesus Christ.
Dr. Walter Ralston Martin (1928-1989) founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960. He published numerous books on subjects related to Christian apologetics, one of the most popular works being The Kingdom of the Cults, and hosted the Bible Answer Man radio broadcast. Dr. Martin faithfully contended once for all delivered to the saints.
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