The False Doctrines of the Message
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By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. (Romans 16:18)[1]
What is False Doctrine?
False doctrine is:
- Plausible. If false doctrines didn't hold together at all, they would never be accepted.
- Based on scripture. No one would follow a false doctrine, if it didn't have some basis in the Bible. The problem is that false doctrine is only partly correct, it is not wholly correct.
- Divisive, creating disunity. [2]
- Self-centred and self-serving. False teachers boast much about love to God, but they wholly fail under the test of love to men.[3]
- usually reductionist in nature. The greatest heresies do not come about by straightforward denial. They happen when an element which may even be important, but isn’t central, looms so large that people can’t help talking about it, fixating on it, debating different views of it as though this were the only thing that mattered. They mistake part of the truth for the whole truth.[4]
- May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart. (Author Unknown)[5]
The major false doctrines propagated by William Branham and his followers
Footnotes
- ↑ The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ro 16:18.
- ↑ R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 752.
- ↑ Robert Tuck, I & II Peter, I, II & III John, Jude, Revelation, The Preacher’s Complete Homiletic Commentary (New York; London; Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1892), 315.
- ↑ Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2008), 137–138.
- ↑ Ken Gnanakan, Biblical Ethics: Ecological Responsibility (Bangalore, India: Theological Book Trust, 2004), 102.