The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

The nature of faith is believing in God's promise (Rom. 4:20-21). It is amazingly how that many Christians today misinterpret such biblical passage with such wrong application. Interpretation precedes with that of application; not application goes before interpretation (2 Tim. 2:15). Also many Christians today fail to give into the account the biblical, historical, and theological analysis of the biblical passage/s of scripture so as to give a clear meaning of what it says and mean. Even though there are some who will make such analysis, but the goal is to bend the text to fit within the cultural understanding of that culture instead of allowing scripture to speak for itself.  We do not speak by putting into the mouth of scripture, but scripture once again speak in behalf of its own witness. Also in order to understand the message of the Bible is to read the immediate context of the passage of scripture in light of its own context along with previous and preceding verses: that of...

The nature of faith is centered upon the Person of Jesus Christ. A "faith" that does not focus upon the message of Christ is a false gospel whereby there are "legion" of gospels that oppose the true nature of the Gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:8-9). It is quite important that the nature of faith are defined according to the standard definition of the Bible. It is amazingly difficult that there are cultist that utilize biblical terminology (e.g. "firstborn") but have radically different meanings (2 Pet. 3:16, 17). For any Christian to be effective in pre-evangelism and discipleship is to insult that many of cultist define biblical terms (e.g. "firstborn") according to the standard definition of the Bible. That is the way by which many Christians can "stripped" the cultist of its most powerful arsenal (2 Cor. 4:3-4).  It is very unfortunate that there are cults within the Faith movement that utilize at will biblical terminologies (e.g. "...