2. Theology of Questions on Doctrine: Issues Surrounding the Nature of Christ and the Atonement

For the Adventist Church, such an opportunity came through a series of conversations with certain Evangelicals in the mid 1950s. 1 It would be easy to fault the church at the time for what may seem (from our distance) an over-eagerness to prove to these representatives (who do they think they are?) that we are authentic Christians. But since polemicist Walter Martin 2 (with partial and prejudiced information) was prepared to write about us anyway, prudence suggested that the church do what it could to represent itself in as correct a manner as possible.