Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Discernment Part 2

The dangers of buying into false teachings are many and diverse. I can lead to everything from simple misunderstandings, to an unfulfilling Christian life, to false “gospels” which do not lead to Salvation.

So what do we do to keep from falling into these errors? How do we stop ourselves from buying into false teachings? The answer is quite simple.

First, however, let me start with what the answer is not. The answer is not that we must know every false teaching, that would be totally impossible. There are simply too many for us to be able to know them all. You could quite literally study these false teachings morning, noon and night for an entire lifetime and never cover all of them, much less learn all of their weaknesses and why it is that they are wrong. Since the fact of the matter is that anything that is not the Truth of God is a lie, the lies abound to a nearly unimaginable extent.

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