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The False Doctrines of the Message: Difference between revisions
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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. The problem is that false doctrine is only partly correct, it is not wholly correct. | |||
:No one is going to be led astray by a false teaching that makes no sense or appears wrong. | |||
False teachings can be compared to counterfeit money. It has to look and feel like the thing in order for people to accept it as real money. The counterfeit is made up of the same things as the real—a certain type of paper, colors and designs, etc. It looks and feels so much like the real that it takes those trained to recognize the counterfeit to realize that it is not genuine.<ref>Bill Hamon, How Can These Things Be?: A Preacher and a Miracle Worker but Denied Heaven! (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image® Publishers, Inc., 2014), 170.</ref> | |||
#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. | |||
:We see this reflected in Acts 20:30: | |||
::Yes, even from among yourselves people will arise, saying things which will distort the truth, and they will draw the disciples away after them.<ref>John Goldingay and Tom Wright, The Bible for Everyone: A New Translation (London: SPCK, 2018), Ac 20:30.</ref> | |||
:Also in 2 Peter 3:15-16: | |||
::Our beloved brother Paul has written to you about all this, according to the wisdom that has been given him, speaking about these things as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them which are difficult to understand. Untaught and unstable people twist his words to their own destruction, as they do with the other scriptures.<ref> John Goldingay and Tom Wright, The Bible for Everyone: A New Translation (London: SPCK, 2018), 2 Pe 3:15–16.</ref> | |||
:When you read the label on a package of rat poison, it reveals that less than 1% is poison, and the more than 99% is tasty, nutritious food for the rat. However, that 1% is enough poison to kill the rat if he eats it for a short period of time. Most of the rat killing food must be real food and appealing to the rat in order to get him to accept and eat the part that is poison. False doctrine must have enough biblical truth to sound biblical in order to entice a Christian to accept the false part. It can be 99% accurate Biblical truth, but the one percent false can be enough to kill the spiritual life of the person who believes it and begins to practice it.<ref>Bill Hamon, How Can These Things Be?: A Preacher and a Miracle Worker but Denied Heaven! (Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image® Publishers, Inc., 2014), 169.</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> | #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> | ||