Some of them are very disturbing. Some Churches are solid as a rock theologically. They are founded on the word of God. They are without repentance regarding the Truths of the word.
Then there are churches where segments of the Church denominationally are solid. One such would be the dividing Anglican Church in America. Another would be the Catholic Churches. For those who trust the Word of God they are on solid ground. There may be others.
Sadly that is not the case with many liberal and mainline evangelical groups.
Most Pentecostal churches would be on solid ground, but even there deception can exist. I think it is good if they as a church are accountable to someone.
Conservative Reformed fellowships, Lutheran Churches Mo Synod and Wisconsin Synod would be hard to deceive. Seventh Day Adventists. Some Baptist, not all. Nazarenes.
Those are good solid well grounded fellowships.
Then there are others who wear other titles who are adrift.
I believe the difference is the spiritual gift of discernment and the esteem for the infallible word of the Living God in the Bible.
Without those two elements deception will come.
The enemy of faith is reason leading to relativism. That's why many Christians in the last election voted for people who are not Godly leaders. They are proving to be people who may even name the name of Jesus but without submission.
If these people do not repent the judgement on them will be double. It's coming. Watch out for the wolves in Sheep's Clothing standing up and leading people to perdition in churches. Get your spiritual gift of Discernment sharpened up. Study the word to be approved. If it doesn't pass thru the screen of God's word, it's bogus.
One other thing, I am NOT quick to condemn new expressions of radical Christianity. Some of the Emergent Church movement is of God. I am NOT ready to pillory Rick Warren or Willow Creek.
It's not them.
It's so called theologians and people with PhD's (Piled higher and deeper) who have become deceived by the books and classes they attend. The devil loves to mislead leaders. Then they do the work for him. Many Christian Colleges are filled with misleaders who have been misled.
Watch out, Mark them well, look carefully. Paul told us that:
Romans 16:
17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
19For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
I pray the God of Peace will Crush these misleaders from Satan under his feet shortly.
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The NEWEST Pretrib Calendar
Hal (serial polygamist) Lindsey and other pretrib-rapture-trafficking and Mayan-Calendar-hugging hucksters deserve the following message: "2012 may be YOUR latest date. It isn't MAYAN!" Actually, if it weren't for the 179-year-old, fringe-British-invented, American-merchandised pretribulation rapture bunco scheme, Hal might still be piloting a tugboat on the Mississippi. roly-poly Thomas Ice (Tim LaHaye's No. 1 strong-arm enforcer) might still be in his tiny folding-chair church which shares its firewall with a Texas saloon, Jack Van Impe might still be a jazz band musician, Tim LaHaye might still be titillating California matrons with his "Christian" sex manual, Grant Jeffrey might still be taking care of figures up in Canada, Chuck Missler might still be in mysterious hush-hush stuff that rocket scientists don't dare talk about, John Hagee might be making - and eating - world-record pizzas, and Jimmy ("Bye You" Rapture) Swaggart might still be flying on a Ferriday flatbed! To read more details about the eschatological British import that leading British scholarship never adopted - the import that's created some American multi-millionaires - Google "Pretrib Rapture Diehards" (note LaHaye's hypocrisy under "1992"), "Hal Lindsey's Many Divorces," "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)" and "Thomas Ice (Hired Gun)," "LaHaye's Temperament," "Wily Jeffrey," "Chuck Missler - Copyist," "Open Letter to Todd Strandberg" and "The Rapture Index (Mad Theology)," "X-Raying Margaret," "Humbug Huebner," "Thieves' Marketing," "Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal," "The Unoriginal John Darby," "Pretrib Hypocrisy," "The Real Manuel Lacunza," "Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism," "America's Pretrib Rapture Traffickers," "Pretrib Rapture - Hidden Facts," "Dolcino? Duh!" and "Scholars Weigh My Research." Most of the above is written by journalist/historian Dave MacPherson who has focused on long-hidden pretrib rapture history for 35+ years. No one else has focused on it for 35 months or even 35 weeks. MacPherson has been a frequent radio talk show guest and he states that all of his royalties have always gone to a nonprofit group and not to any individual. His No. 1 book on all this is "The Rapture Plot" (see Armageddon Books online, etc.). The amazing thing is how long it has taken the mainstream media to finally notice and expose this unbelievably groundless yet extremely lucrative theological hoax!
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