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Title: DOS & Donts Witnessing to Cults by Walter Ralston Martin ISBN: 7-5116-0032-8 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good teaching
Comment: The last reviewer obviously never used this specific title -- he calls it a *book* rather than an audio tape. He's also a member of one of the groups Martin critiques.

This audio title is good, solid teaching, by a man who knew his subject very well.

Rating: 1
Summary: Cash-inspired hate literature from a proven deceiver
Comment: Before even considering wasting your money on this book, I recommend that you first take a look at the author’s background... It gives you a good idea of his life of deception, which plays out also in his books and lectures, giving no real consideration to truth or honesty. When reading his books and listening to tapes, which I found in Christian bookstores, I was struck by the utter lack of logic with which he drew ridiculous conclusions about Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists, and even Catholics, making statements I could tell even he didn’t really believe, just in an attempt to promote his attacks. Having a foundational knowledge of each of these groups from my personal search for truth and meaning in life, I was able to see how he knowingly twisted truths, took things out of context, and continued to contradict himself throughout. Having been raised in Canada’s largest Protestant church, it was also easy to see how he rejected everything that wasn’t from a strictly fundamentalist, born-again background, not to mention the fact that fundamentalists vary so widely in doctrine that you can hardly find a common thread to link them together.

Later, after being baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I reread those books and watched “The Godmakers,” from a new perspective, with a sincere desire to understand the positions of critics of the Church, and it absolutely churned my stomach to see how thoroughly Martin distorted Mormon doctrine and history, doing the same also to other denominations that were subject to his attacks. I could see that he was all over the board, just reiterating what other critics had written through the years, without having an original thought of his own. That hodgepodge rehashing of other anti-Mormon and anti-JW literature from every source he could find is obviously what accounts for his continual contradictions, which defy all logic for any rational thinking being. The fact that he knowingly put already disproven “evidence” into the books and didn’t withdraw them before publication after the conviction of an even-more-deceptive Salt Lake bomber-forger shows what kind of person Martin was—that he wasn’t really seeking to convey truth but rather wishing to merely wage an unfounded attack for personal profit and adulation. It is obvious also what his motives were in writing such books and giving such lectures, and I’m sure he profited well.

While the proselytizing efforts of Latter-day Saints and Jehovah’s Witnesses are focused on simply teaching their own beliefs in the spirit of love without ever commenting on (let alone attacking) the beliefs or practices of other denominations and sects, it is sad to see how fundamentalist movements seem focused more on tearing down others’ beliefs and ridiculing their practices rather than actually striving to personally follow and preach Christ as our resurrected Savior. The overwhelming obsession that drives people like the so-called “Dr.” Walter Martin makes you really wonder whether they are fighting the demons of their own troubled consciences. This is obviously the case with most ex-Mormons, ex-JWs, etc., who often leave their organizations due to guilt over sexual misconduct (usually adultery) rather than striving to repent and reconcile themselves to Christ. No wonder they run to the nearest fundamentalist movement that will tell them to say a one-time prayer and be instantly saved, thus freeing them from any obligation to actually repent and conscientiously follow Christ on a daily basis, being erroneously convinced that they are already infallibly saved by grace without a need to live by faith. In this respect, I admire the non-fundamentalist mainstream Christians who still correctly believe in a need to actually “live” the gospel in order to be saved at the end of their lives, despite the infusion of the New Age movement into most “liberal” Christian churches....