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#Plausible. If false doctrines didn't hold together at all, they would never be accepted. | #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. | #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. <ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 752.</ref> | #Divisive, creating disunity. <ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 752.</ref> | ||
#Self-centred and self-serving. False teachers boast much about love to God, but they wholly fail under the test of love to men.<ref>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.</ref> | #Self-centred and self-serving. False teachers boast much about love to God, but they wholly fail under the test of love to men.<ref>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.</ref> | ||
#usually reductionist in nature. The greatest heresies do not come about by straightforward denial | #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.<ref>Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2008), 137–138.</ref> | ||
:''May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart. (Author Unknown)<ref>Ken Gnanakan, Biblical Ethics: Ecological Responsibility (Bangalore, India: Theological Book Trust, 2004), 102.</ref> | |||
=The major false doctrines propagated by William Branham and his followers= | =The major false doctrines propagated by William Branham and his followers= | ||