Subtle, Dangerous Deception Within the Church Using the Bible and Tradition

[Musicmaster]

The greatest threats to the Bible and to the body of Christ isn't just external opposition and corruptions but a “normal-looking” Christianity that lacks real transformation and obedience. Deceptions are dangerous because they appear harmless, give no warning, feel right, and closely resemble truth in many ways.

The builder on rock takes God’s word for what it says and actively lives it to his best abilities and with the help of Holy Spirit. The builder on sand hears and may agree with claims to his already knowing truth but doesn't believe what's actually written in order to continue embracing what he's been taught prior by people he admires and loves. Much of the corruptions he believes enjoy antiquity, some of it dating back to man's creation of the largest false religion within Christianity, such as a works-based gospel for salvation.

Once truth becomes flexible, it offers a false security.

True followers build around God’s word for what it says, showing visible movement, growth, and change; they accept correction and return when they fall. The other kind hears without transformation; under pressure they compromise, soften truth, and shift to preserve comfort and control rather than to admit quoted passages mean what they say. Instead, they resort to running through the field trying to converse about all the other rabbit holes littering the field, thus trying to distract away from the main subject put forth to them. Some will even blame you for their own straw man tactics and slight-of-hand variants to the topic to refuse admitting, for example, such things as the elements for salvation preached by Peter in Acts 2 are not the same list of elements stated by Paul in 1 Cor. 15:1-4.

Why?

Well, it all plays into the enjoyment for having deep roots strengthened within historic and modern churchianity, the deceptive teachings from pulpits upheld by modern theological cemeteries.

What about you? Are you a watchman on the wall against the onslaught of deceptions? What are you seeing out there in the expanse of the enemy's amassed encampments?

MM

 

[Musicmaster]

Here's a case in point:

Romans 2:14-15
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;

These passages, although somewhat paralleled in Hebrews below, are NOT saying the same thing, but modern deceptions have some believing the Law itself is written in the heart of Gentiles to whom the Law was never given. Notice above that the WORK of the Law is in the hearts of most Gentiles. It doesn't say the Law itself is written therein today.

Compare this with what was written to Israel and Israel alone:

Hebrews 10:15-18
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Where there is somewhat a parallel with Gentiles in that the WORK of the Law is in their hearts, the Law itself is not stated to be written therein in relation to the Gentile masses of believers, for the Law has VASTLY more to it than just the ten to which most Gentiles appeal.

The deception in all this is like a fountain springing forth from the well of replacement theologies.

MM

 

[GWH]

The greatest threats to the Bible and to the body of Christ isn't just external opposition and corruptions but a “normal-looking” Christianity that lacks real transformation and obedience. Deceptions are dangerous because they appear harmless, give no warning, feel right, and closely resemble truth in many ways.

The builder on rock takes God’s word for what it says and actively lives it to his best abilities and with the help of Holy Spirit. The builder on sand hears and may agree with claims to his already knowing truth but doesn't believe what's actually written in order to continue embracing what he's been taught prior by people he admires and loves. Much of the corruptions he believes enjoy antiquity, some of it dating back to man's creation of the largest false religion within Christianity, such as a works-based gospel for salvation.

Once truth becomes flexible, it offers a false security.

True followers build around God’s word for what it says, showing visible movement, growth, and change; they accept correction and return when they fall. The other kind hears without transformation; under pressure they compromise, soften truth, and shift to preserve comfort and control rather than to admit quoted passages mean what they say. Instead, they resort to running through the field trying to converse about all the other rabbit holes littering the field, thus trying to distract away from the main subject put forth to them. Some will even blame you for their own straw man tactics and slight-of-hand variants to the topic to refuse admitting, for example, such things as the elements for salvation preached by Peter in Acts 2 are not the same list of elements stated by Paul in 1 Cor. 15:1-4.

Why?

Well, it all plays into the enjoyment for having deep roots strengthened within historic and modern churchianity, the deceptive teachings from pulpits upheld by modern theological cemeteries.

What about you? Are you a watchman on the wall against the onslaught of deceptions? What are you seeing out there in the expanse of the enemy's amassed encampments?

MM

Well, I try to be a watchman who warns folks about atheism and heresy.
On CC I see corruptions of the Gospel including tulipism and Judaizing,
such as Sabbatarianism.