Spiritual nonsense and dealing with it

There is no question that Christian forums (as well as churches, radio and TV programs, blogs, websites etc) are getting enmeshed in a lot of spiritual nonsense. There are all kinds of bizarre theologies which are cropping up all the time. And ancient heresies are being promoted as though they are Bible truth. Ever since theological liberalism raised its ugly head, there has been a lot of nonsense published under the guise of truth. And we are now in the midst of the Great Apostasy.

PART I

HIGHER CRITICISM
“Higher criticism, which is also known as the historical-critical method, is a method of examining the Bible that seeks to discover what was originally meant in the various documents as they were penned in their culture and time. This approach assumes a secular perspective and denies the supernatural inspiration of Scripture. Therefore, its conclusions must be in harmony with a secular, non-supernatural worldview. This automatically negates the possibility of prophecy and inspiration from God. Higher Criticism is in contrast to Lower Criticism which is the examination of the physical texts, their origin, the reliability, and the transmission.”
https://carm.org/what-is-higher-criticism-and-the-historical-critical-method-of-examining-the-bible

Higher Criticism has corrupted all the mainline denominations and seminaries through theological liberalism. And theological liberalism has corrupted evangelical and fundamentalist churches through the Emergent Church Movement (which has also adopted some Catholic ideas about Contemplative Prayer, rosary beads, etc).

NEW AGE NONSENSE
Oprah Winfrey, who was exposed to Gospel truth (and who is now currently on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon) is a New Ager, and has been promoting this false religion for quite some time. Unfortunately a lot of uninformed or misinformed women think Oprah is the best thing that happened since sliced bread. And they have been led astray. New Age beliefs are a vast smorgasbord of beliefs, mainly derived from Hinduism and Buddhism. Pantheism (God is in everything, and everything is God) is one of the main beliefs “Therefore, the New Age solution is to seek "higher consciousness" through meditation, breathing exercises, yoga, diet, crystals, channeling. spirit guides, and more.”

SCIENTOLOGY
Scientology is also derived from Hinduism. According to their web site “Scientology comprises a body of knowledge which extends from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these are: (1) Man is an immortal spiritual being. (2) His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. (3) His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized." In other words man can eventually become God (similar to the Mormon belief along the same lines)

THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL
This false Gospel is preached and promoted by “Christian” evangelists and televangelists primarily from the Word of Faith Movement, but they have abandoned the true Gospel and substituted “another gospel”.

“The prosperity gospel (also known as the “health and wealth gospel” or by its most popular brand, the “Word of Faith” movement) is a perversion of the gospel of Jesus that claims that God rewards increases in faith with increases in health and/or wealth. As Stephen Hunt explains, ‘In the forefront is the doctrine of the assurance of “divine” physical health and prosperity through faith. In short, this means that “health and wealth” are the automatic divine right of all Bible-believing Christians and may be procreated by faith as part of the package of salvation, since the Atonement of Christ includes not just the removal of sin, but also the removal of sickness and poverty.’”
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-you-should-know-about-the-prosperity-gospel/

CALVINISM
Calvinism has acquired the veneer of respectability since it is a part of Reformed Theology, which goes back to the Reformation (but is derived from some of the ideas of Catholic bishop Augustine). It has become rather popular in recent times, but it is false nonetheless. It teaches that Christ died only for the so-called elect, since God elects (and has predestined) some for Heaven and others for Hell. This simply opposes the true Gospel, which says that Christ died for all mankind, and all may be saved by obedience to the Gospel. That the Gospel of God itself is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes (Romans 1:16)

ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Roman Catholicism (or Catholicism) is a mixture of truth and error, which teaches (1) baptismal regeneration, (2) salvation through the sacraments, (3) salvation through the Catholic Church, (4) the veneration of Mary, and (5) the existence of a fictitious purgatory. Catholics themselves are fine, moral, upstanding, religious people who have been misled by their hierarchical clergy. Why they continue to remain adherents of this False Christianity is a mystery (the Mystery of Iniquity), especially since the Bible and the true Gospel are now freely available.

So you agree with me when i ask- is not love god, love your brother enough?

Anyway, christian, you cannot both say, the world is under the control of the evil one, and also agree, The kingdoms of the earth have become the kingoms of the lord and his christ, amen come lord jesus.

Thank you for touching on some of the contemporary theologies present within the world mind, and for pointing out their shortcomings. I agree they do not speak to my heart with their elitist attitudes or their proposals for what is lacking in the average life. I know you raise these flags because you see injustice around you, and you want to bring people to christs' teachings of love God, love your brother. Now I will share with you a larger concern. The bible is itself a part of the same vast world mind which contains all these other teachings. Not all scripture is God be praised. The truth of what God created, what we were meant to experience which is life in, of, and through christ (to reference a common text) existed long before the bible was written, which is a catalogue of man's attempt to live on earth against the someones wishes. For some scriptural backing, consider; Return to me the glory we had before the world began. Why then is it written the son of man must suffer?

I feel like socrates chewing my hemlock when i say, according to the very bible we reference, the end will come as it is written, with so much destruction, it does not speak to my logic/morality/fellowship protocols which i call my heart and the bible names christ and logos. I sound like socrates when i say, the superstructure of religion and philosophy being taught is divisive , just as you recognise common fallicy in those teachings, however, to consider what a world of gods people would be like, is to fear our slow progress will end utterly short of its fruition. I.E. We gonna run out of time and fail to finish our work at the rate we are going, and that is our enemies hope. Everyday lived under oppression is one less day in the real world. So you agree with me when i ask- is not love god, love your brother enough? and point out 2000 years of gospel and brotherly love and also deception and subjugation of infrastructure and stratification whereby the average citizen cannot affect any concern or effect any change as you walk outside and see the same iniquities christ did in his day. May i point out, jerusalem was still destroyed, and all the apostles are dead, except maybe john... Christ came as a priest of the good things that are already here/.

Anyway, christian, you cannot both say, the world is under the control of the evil one, and also agree, The kingdoms of the earth have become the kingoms of the lord and his christ, amen come lord jesus.

I was recently in a discussion with a spiritual narcissist on a different Christian forum and after sharing that the gospel is the “good news” of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that BELIEVES.. (Romans 1:16) and to “believe" the gospel is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation, I was relentlessly attacked and accused of teaching a “decoy“ or “half gospel.” According to the spiritual narcissist, the other half of the gospel involved performance based works salvation and sinless perfection. False teachers are out in full force teaching spiritual nonsense these days on various Christian forums!

According to the spiritual narcissist, the other half of the gospel involved performance based works salvation and sinless perfection.

Thus the Reformers claimed that the pope was the Antichrist, and now the Seventh Day Adventist denomination claims that the papacy is the Antichrist, and Sunday worship equals the Mark of the Beast. There is a lot of absurdity being passed off as sound interpretation, but Christians should not be fooled.

i don't believe sunday worshiper is the mark of the beast, but I believe pope is antichrist

The Antichrist has been given ONLY 42 MONTHS to rule the world. That proves that the pope is not the Antichrist.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (Rev 13:5)

42 months = 1260 days = 3 1/2 years = time (1 yr) + times (2 yrs) +half a time (6 months). This is the first half of a seven-year period called Daniel's 70th Week.

i don't believe sunday worshiper is the mark of the beast

That pronouncement (in the bold ^ ) will be made at the "7th Trumpet [/ 3rd Woe / 1st Vial]" point in the chronology, which has not yet taken place (nor have yet the many things that are slated to precede that point in the chronology).



(Revelation 11:15, etc - "And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were great voices in heaven, saying: 'The kingdom of the world has become that of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign to the ages of the ages.'")

If christ didn't want them when they were offered in the desert, do you think he will want them at the end?

Christ came as a priest to reveal the good things "of faith not seen" with the eye the temporal but by faith , the unseen eternal .

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

When accused of being the Lord and Master, having no power of His own he declared the words the father put on his lips Why call me master One is good our good master God not seen. Good is defined the things not seen .

On the last day the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of God under the new order. Not before the letter of the law death along with the sufferings of hell is tossed into the fiery judgment of God. The second death, death of death. It, death will not rise again and condemn through corruption another entire creation.

Christians after the new order are considered priest that hold out the gospel . As Ambassadors our citizenship is not of the world and neither is our born new birth .

We are sons 'of God what we will be no one knows .What we do know is our new incorruptible bodies will be neither male nor female, Jew nor gentile .But one glorious new bride.