The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

For believers to understand the prophetic word is that it is essential to understand the background of 2 Peter 1:19-21.  As we begin to look at previous verses in 2 Peter 1:16-18, it is also essential to understand what took place when the apostle Peter experience along with the other apostles during Christ's transfiguration. Unfortunately, many professing believers have taken the biblical concept of the "prophetic word" by putting a spin by which they have totally redefined such biblical terminology. The whole idea of the prophetic word has been made to believe that God gives such personal "revelations" to those who claim to be God's mouthpiece by which it is inaccessible to the Church as a whole. Is what these self-proclaimed modern-day prophets within the contemporary church today "unique" in the sense that it is revelatory in nature by which it is outside the boundaries of God's Word? What is the "specific" knowledge and experie

Just recently I came across a article on the Internet titled, "Is There Any Power In Positive Thinking?" by which I find it quite interesting. It wasn't that I was curious nor did I have any interest in the topic in and of itself, but the overwhelming infiltration of how that it has influence the church, the media, and people throughout the world. The acceleration of false doctrine is at an alarming speed by which the worldly idea of the power of positive thinking has in fact gone unchallenged and unabated. The reason for such onslaught of false teaching in the professing church today is that of biblical ignorance and lack of spiritual discernment. There is also both spiritual "indifference" and callousness when it comes to sound biblical doctrine (2 Tim. 4:2-4).  Those who are committed to biblical fidelity are the very ones who suffer at the hands of false spiritual leaders who are unfaithful in preaching sound doctrine. It appears that they are reaping the