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"I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR THAT
MY CHILDREN WALK IN TRUTH"
[3 John 1:4]
Many
well meaning yet mis-taught Christians and others who claim to be
Christians are preaching lots of things that sound 'good' on the surface
but at the root are anything but true. Some of these lies (modern
unscriptural ideas about Christianity) are discussed below as a wake-up
call to all true born-again Bible-believing disciples of Jesus Christ.
LIE
#1: God wants his children to be rich.
Matt
6:19-20 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal
Luke
18:22 - Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest
thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Matt
8:20 - And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of
the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
2
Tim 3:12 - Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall
suffer persecution.
LIE
#2: If you have enough faith God will give you whatever you ask for.
James
4:3 - Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.
1
John 5:14 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we
ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us
LIE
#3: Don't speak out against sin or against error because you might offend
someone.
Gal
4:16 - Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Jude
1:3 - Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints.
Luke
17:3 - Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke
him; and if he repent, forgive him.
1
Tim 5:20 - Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may
fear.
Matt
15:12-24 - Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the
Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he
answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted,
shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matt
24:10-11 - And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many.
LIE
#4: Unity is more important than doctrine.
Psa
138:2 - ... thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
2
Tim 4:3-4 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
LIE
#5: Christians should work together with whoever is pro-family and
pro-life.
2
Cor 6:14-17 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what
agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and
I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out
from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord
LIE
#6: Christians can divorce or remarry provided the spouse committed
adultery.
Luke
16:18 - Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth
adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband
committeth adultery.
Mark
10:11-12 - And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman
shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth
adultery.
Matt
19:4-6 - And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he
which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And
said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are
no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder.
Rom
7:2-3 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed
from the law of her husband. So then if, while : but if her
husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
LIE
#9: All babies and small children that die go to heaven because God would
not condemn anyone who has not reached 'the age of accountability'.
Psa
51:5 - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
Psa
58:3 - The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as
soon as they be born, speaking lies.
God
sovereignly determines which infants, children and adults He will ordain
to eternal life no matter how short their lives may be.
LIE
#10: Signs and wonders are evidences of being a Christian - a true child
of God.
1
Cor 12:30 - Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do
all interpret?
1
Cor 14:11 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall
be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a
barbarian unto me.
Matt
12:39 - ... An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign;
and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas
It
is not tongues speaking or any other miraculous signs that confirm our conversion
to Christ. True signs of salvation consist of a changed attitude about
God and sin as evidenced by a love for holiness (John 14:21, Heb 12:14),
for the brethren (1John 3:14), the lost (Matt 5:44) and biblical truth
(John 18:37).
LIE
#11: You can commit blasphemy of the Holy Spirit if you question the
source of someone's tongues utterances, tongues interpretations, or
messages from God.
1Thes
5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1
John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out
into the world.
Rev
22:18 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book
LIE
#12: We should not question someone's salvation.
1
John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out
into the world.
Matt
7:15-16 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by
their fruits.
LIE
#13: Saturday is still the Sabbath day.
Acts
20:7 - And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together to break bread, Paul preached unto them
1
Cor 16:2 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay
by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings
when I come.
Col
2:16-17 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath :
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
LIE
#14: God doesn't mind if we use religious statues, pictures or medallions
as aids to worship.
Exo
20:4-5 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve them
Deut
29:17 - And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them
Psa
135:15-18 -The idols of the heathen are silver and gold,
the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have
they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; neither is
there any breath in their mouths. They that make them are like
unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
1Cor
10:14 - Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry
2
Cor 6:16 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
1John
5:21 - Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Rev
9:20 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of
wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
LIE
#15: You can get yourself saved anytime you want just by saying a prayer
telling Jesus that you accept Him as your Saviour.
Acts
15:8 - And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness,
giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Jonah
2:9 - Salvation is of the LORD.
Mat
7:21-23 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven.
Mat
18:3 - And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven.
Matt
15:8 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth
me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Luke
13:3 - I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all
likewise perish.
John
3:3 - Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
2
Cor 13:5 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove
your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?
LIE
#16: God doesn't care what we expose ourselves to (music,
radio & TV programs, movies, reading material, etc.) as long as it
has a positive message.
James
4:4 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.
Psa
101:3 - I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes
LIE
#17: You are legalistic if you speak against specific sins.
Rom
6:1,2 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may
abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
therein?
2
Pet 3:14 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.
John
7:24 - Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
LIE
#18: You can lose your salvation.
Rom
5:11 - And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement.
John
3:18 - He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God.
1
John 5:13 - These things have I written unto you that believe on the name
of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and
that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
John
10:28 - And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Jude
1:24 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy
LIE
#19: Evangelism is only an activity for Christians who have that gift.
2
Cor 5:20 - Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God
did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to
God.
James
5:20 - Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a
multitude of sins.
Mat
10:32-33 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall
deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in
heaven.
LIE
#20: Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists and Roman Catholics
are all members of legitimate Christian churches.
Rev
22:18 - If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written in this book.
The
Mormon church has added the Book of Mormon, The Jehovah Witness
Watchtower organization has created the corrupt New World Translation
bible, The Adventist churches have added Ellen G. White's writings, and
the Catholic Church has added the Catholic Catechism, all of which are
used to elevate the teachings of these organizations above the Holy
Bible. The Bible teaches salvation by God's grace alone!
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