Paul says that if anyone preaches a different gospel that what the apostles taught they are condemned.
(Galatians 1:7-8) “Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ; and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned.”
Some of what the apostles/Jesus taught follows does your church teach all of the following scripture?
(1 John 2:6) “But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did”
(1 John 3:9-10) “No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God. In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil: anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God’s.”
(Matthew 5:48) “Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
(Matthew 5:39) “You have learnt how it was said: ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I say this to you: offer the wicked man no resistance.”
(Luke 14:33) “So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions.”
(Matthew 6:19) “Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal.”
(Matthew 23:8-9) “You, however must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one Master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven.”
(1 Corinthians 6:9-19) “You know perfectly well that people who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God: people of immoral lives, idolaters, adulterers, catamites, sodomites, thieves, usurers, drunkards, slanders and
swindlers will never inherit the kingdom of God.”
Immoral lives: bad, wicked, dissolute, dissipated, profligate, referring to conduct, applies to one who acts contrary to or doesnot obey or conform to standards of morality,
Idolaters: a worshiper of idols.
Adulterers: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.
Catamites: a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.
Sodomites: a person who engages in sodomy.
Anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex. Copulation with a member of the same sex.
Copulation: sexual intercourse.2.a joining together or coupling.
Thieves: a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; oneguilty of theft or larceny.
2. Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.
Drunkards: a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
Drunk: being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental facultiesare impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated:
Slanders: One who gives, a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
Swindlers: to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
2 to obtain by fraud or deceit.
huge things in this all is the grace commands. forgive and you will be forgiven, condemn not, you will not be condemned, judge not lest ye be judged, by the measure you use, it will be measured to you ect.....on the basis of the grace and mercy that is throughtout Jesus teachings. needs to be said that obedience to Jesus provides Grace and forgiveness. the obedience of Law is different. an adulterer for instance is stoned, sin not, or die is the laws obedience.
Jesus teachings themselves provide all the grace we need. difference is we obey Jesus, the man full of Grace and truth. and its important for the "teacher" to live up to the things a person who is a "teacher" is teaching though there is only one true teacher. The Christ, through the spirit given by Faith. the spirit does indeed speak through others, to each other, for mutual edification. a "prophet" has no authority over another believer, that's important to realize. not old testament prophets they are Gone, now like all things, the spirit is throughout the body of Christ as a whole, no one above the other. a servant, a secratery, an encourager, a prophet, a healer ect......all these things are given to the body not to glorify or raise one up. they are all for the purpose of the raising up of the body of Christ on earth and the glorification of God through the name of Jesus His Son.
the greatest in the Kingdom of God, is the meekest, the un noticed, the one able to restrain himself, his words ( which is my current struggle) the ones living a good example are the best examples to follow. I'm convinced that everything lives in the Gospel, all wisdom in His words, all truth, all discernment. they are not limited to a person, but available to every believer that seeks Him out. the word was with God, was God. so what are Jesus words but spirit and life to all who believe THEM.