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False Leaders (long article, but worth the read)

Article Index
False Leaders (long article, but worth the read)
Non-Christian False Leaders
Worldly False Leaders
Religious False Leaders
Pharisees
False Bretheren
Previously Christian False Leaders
Morally Apostate
Theologically Apostate
Acts and Characteristics of False Leaders
Deceipt and Deception
False Doctrines
No Future Resurrection
Faulty Scientific Facts contradicting the Bible
Heresies which even deny Jesus
A Different Gospel
Focusing on legalism instead of relationship
with the saviour
Speak Evil of Spiritual Things
Doctrines of demons, forbidding marriage,
and commanding no meat
Preaching Evil Is Good
Demanding Obedience to Themselves
Of this world, not of Christ
Manipulation Through Status Sins
RELIGIOUS STATUS
Not keeping the Sabbath Day holy
Not Tithing
Dancing
Hair length
Praying with hats on (men) and off (women)
New Testament commands given to others
Number of people in your meetings
Wight Status
Health Status
Beauty Status
Social Status
Occupational Status
Financial Status
Great Signs and Wonders
Violent
Divisive
Greedy
Swindling
Proud
Personal Note
Wicked
Reprobate
THEIR SIN IS APOSTASY
Definition
Their Judgement
Many and Few Stripes in Hell
Reponse to False Leaders by Jesus
Jesus before Caiaphas
OUR RESPONSE - DISCERN, WARN, AND AVOID
Discern False Teachers
Page 49
Know the qualities of elders
and expect them to be demonstrated
Warn and Avoid
Warn leaders of divisions and false teaching
Bretheren, mark and avoid false leaders
Leaders rebuke and reject false leaders
Footnotes

A DIFFERENT GOSPEL

Galatians 1:8 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

Both Mohammed and Joseph Smith had an angel appear to them and show them through strange writings a different gospel. Islam minimizes Jesus to a mere prophet, and Mormonism creates a different Jesus who had two wives and attained godhood in a preexistent state.

2 Corinthians 11:3-4 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him."

Should be corrupted is phtheiro in Greek, meaning waste away, shrivel or wither, to spoil (by any process), or to ruin (especially by moral influences, to deprave).

Simplicity is haplotes in Greek, meaning singleness, sincerity, mental honesty; the virtue of one who is free from pretense and hypocrisy; not self-seeking, or openness of heart manifesting itself by bountiful generosity.

Don't let anyone add to or take from your simple faith in Christ. There are different kinds of gifts and services and works which grow from relationship with Jesus. God has blessed His Body with various abilities for healthy wholeness, not to create division (1 Cor. 12). If someone has faith in the Biblical Jesus for forgiveness of their sins, then that person is a brother or sister in Christ. If they trust in some other person or teaching for their salvation, then they are not in Christ.



 
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