Have you
heard the phrase, “Doctrine is not important”?
'Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some
will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.' 1Timothy 4:1
What
happens to believers and preachers of false doctrine?
John 3:36
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life,
but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
(NIV)
John 3:16-18
16 "For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did
not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world
through him.
18 Whoever
believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and
only Son. (NIV)
1 Tim 4:16
16 Watch your life and doctrine
closely. Persevere in them, because if
you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. (NIV)
Gal 1:8-9
8 But even if
we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we
preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
9 As we have
already said, so now I say again: If
anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what
you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! (NIV)
II Th 2:9-12
9 The coming
of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all
kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,
10 and in every
sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
11 For this
reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
12 and so that
all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in
wickedness. (NIV)
Rev 22:14-15
14 "Blessed
are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of
life and may go through the gates into the city.
15 Outside are
the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers,
the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (NIV)
Eclecticism
is a person believing bits and pieces of whatever you like from sources other
than the Bible, whether the sources contradict the bible or not. The New Age
lie is that there is so much truth out there, that: Who’s to say which is the
real thing? The bible
is not the authoritative standard of the one truth for New Age
practitioners. However, it is a very
popular “spiritual book”.
I Jn 4:1-6
1 Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they
are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how
you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 but every
spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you
have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4 You, dear
children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is
greater than the one who is in the world.
5 They are from the world and therefore speak
from the viewpoint of the world, and the
world listens to them.
6 We are from
God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not
listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of
falsehood. (NIV)
2 Cor 11:3-4
3 But I am
afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may
somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
4 For if someone
comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you
receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different
gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. (NIV)
John 8:51
51 I tell you
the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will
never see death." (NIV)
1 Cor 15:1-2
1 Now,
brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received
and on which you have taken your stand.
2 By this
gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.
Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
(NIV)