Posts Tagged ‘heretic’

Eight Symptoms of False Teaching

Posted: October 14, 2015 in Ancient Faith, belief, Biblical, False Teaching, Father, God, Gospel, Heresy, history, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, Jesus, orthodoxy, Scriptural, Son, Teaching, Word
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falseteachers

Here are eight symptoms of false teaching:

1. There is an undeniable zeal in some teachers of error. Their “earnestness” makes many people think they must be right.

2. There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge. Many think that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe to listen to.

3. There is a general tendency to completely free and independent thinking today. Many like to prove their independence of judgment by believing the newest ideas, which are nothing but novelties.

4. There is a wide-spread desire to appear kind, loving, and open-minded. Many seem half-ashamed to say that anybody can be wrong or is a false teacher.

5. There is always a portion of half-truth taught by modern false teachers. They are always using scriptural words and phrases, but with unscriptural meaning.

6. There is a public craving for a more sensational and entertaining worship. People are impatient with the more inward and invisible work of God within the hearts of men.

7. There is a superficial readiness all around to believe anyone who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, forgetting that Satan often masquerades himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14).

8. There is a wide-spread ignorance among professing Christians. Every heretic who speaks well is surely believed, and anyone who doubts him is called narrow-minded and unloving.

~ Bishop J.C. Ryle

All these are especially symptomatic of our times. They have tremendous relevance for the church today. They tend to make the assaults of false doctrine today especially dangerous and make it even more important to say loudly, “Do not be carried away with strange doctrine!”

Heresy leads to Apostasy

Posted: March 15, 2012 in Charismatic, Christian, Church, Evangelical, Liturgical, Pentecostal, Reformed, Renaissance, Repentance, Sacramental
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Apostasy

2 Thessalonians 2:3, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition…”

King James Version (KJV); American Standard Version (ASV); Revised Version (RV)

“falling away” = Greek “apostasia” = a falling away, forsake, defection from truth, apostasy

English Standard Version (ESV); Lexham English Bible (LEB)

“the rebellion” – Greek “apostasia” = a falling away, forsake, defection from truth, apostasy

Apostolic Bible Polygot

“the defection” – Greek “apostasia” = a falling away, forsake, defection from truth, apostasy

Eastern Orthodox Bible (New Testament) (EOB)

“the apostasy” – Greek “apostasia” = a falling away, forsake, defection from truth, apostasy

1 Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith…”

“Depart” – Greek “aphistemi” = to make stand off, cause to withdraw one’s self from, to fall away

Heresy

Heresy falls into three categories: heresies of the nature of Jesus Christ; heresies of the Trinity; and heresies of the nature of salvation.

English Standard Version (ESV); Lexham English Bible (LEB): Revised Version (RV); American Standard Version (ASV)

“…for there must be factions (heresies) among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.”  1 Corinthians 11:19  (ESV)

“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets…” Acts 24:14 (ESV)

“Factions” or “sect” Greek: “hairesis” – disunion, a choice, a party, heresy

“As for a person who stirs up division (a heretic), after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”  Titus 3:10-11 (ESV)

“Division” or “Divisive” Greek: “aihretikos”  – able to take or choose a thing, schismatic, heretic, factious, follower of false doctrine

King James Version (KJV);

“Heretick” – Greek: “aihretikos”  – able to take or choose a thing, schismatic, heretic, factious, follower of false doctrine

Revised Version (RV); Apostolic Bible Polygot

“heretical” – Greek: “aihretikos”  – able to take or choose a thing, schismatic, heretic, factious, follower of false doctrine

American Standard Version (ASV)

 “Factious” – Greek: “aihretikos”  – able to take or choose a thing, schismatic, heretic, factious, follower of false doctrine

Heresy becomes apostasy when there is a deliberate holding to error in spite of knowing the truth of the Word of God. A heretic becomes apostate at the point when he hears the truth and decides against it.

“[As for] a man who is factious [a heretical sectarian and cause of divisions], after admonishing him a first and second time, reject [him from your fellowship and have nothing more to do with him], Well aware that such a person has utterly changed (is perverted and corrupted); he goes on sinning [though he] is convicted of guilt and self-condemned.”  ~ Titus 3:10-11 (Amplified Bible)