Let me start off A little background.I grew and was baptized in a Baptist church @ 8 years old I was baptized.I drifted from God in my adolescent years.I re dedicated my life to Christ @ 17 or 18 and began to attend a small Pentecostal church were I was baptized again.At about the age of 24I began to listen to a radio station called both radio network.I noticed that these preachers are a lot different than the preachers I had ever heard.They didn't believe in prophets,speaking things into existence,decreeing and declaring,and speaking in tongues as evidence of salvation.Now,I must say,I began to question rather or not these two very different secs of religion were talking about the same God.I am now at a nondenominational church that seems to hold more of the beliefs of Pentecostal denomination.I find myself identifying more with preachers like chip ingram,chuck swindoll. In my personal time with the Lord,I ask him to guide me with the meanings of scriptures that are interpreted differently by different denominations.There is such a difference in scripture interpretation that I am starting to believe that one is preaching a completely different gospel.The very character of God seems to be different between the two.PLEASE HELP.
Most mainstream church denominations, who acknowledge the authority of Scripture agree on the essentials of Salvation.
The doctrinal differences among these Bible believing denominations can be quite significant. To complicate things members of each of these denominations are persuaded that their doctrine is correct.
We have these promises to guide us:
Jn 16:13-15
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
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Jas 1:5-8
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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In addition this passage gives us further guidance
Gal 5:22-25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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The answer to your question is yes it is indeed possible to know the Lord and hear false teaching.
It is important to let the Holy Spirit and Scripture guide your beliefs rather than the teachings of a denomination.
I think Chuck Swindoll is very sound ans any church with similar teachings will likely be a good place for you.