The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

No one will ever suspect a Gnostic to be within the ranks of the church today? Unfortunately but true that there are "Christian" mystics within many evangelical churches and that of its own leadership today. A "Christian" mystic is a professing believer who claim to possess such superior "knowledge" that the ordinary Christians does not possess. The "knowledge" by which "Christian" mystics possess is what is "secret" knowledge or "gnosis" that is outside the boundaries of God's Word. Such spiritual "knowledge" or Revelation Knowledge is a "direct" fax from heaven by which many Gnostics claim to have received from God (Deut. 29:29).  Many "Christian" mystics has in fact accuse that of the "institutional" church or traditional religion of possessing the letter of the law; not the spirit and the Word. The typical statement of "Christian" mystics by saying, "Th...

The strength of one's interpretation is to how they view God's Word. For example whenever a particular Christian teacher view that of sin as to teach that the conditions of people are based upon their particular environment that they find themselves, that of low self-esteem, and the condition of one's way of thinking is the reason why people are the way they are as opposed to man being separated from God as a result of the Fall of Man (Gen. 3:1-7 with Rom. 5:12). Even though there are areas of occupation that are somewhat worst than others due to such social and economical factors but the overall of things is that man is separated from God as a direct result of their sin and immorality (Rom. 6:23). In order that man can be reconcile to God is through the Person of Jesus Christ so as to His redemptive work on the cross.  Man is a sinner by nature by which they are prone to sinning. For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our L...

During the last article that I wrote concerning the prophetic word made sure is that the church possess that of the written revelation of God's Word (2 Pet. 1:19-21 with 2 Tim. 3:16).  Therefore in order to bear wide open the plain meaning of 2 Peter 1:19a is to look at previous verses in 2 Peter 1:15-18 so as to lay the foundation of preceding verses in 2 Peter 1:19-21. Many times professing believers who hear the word "prophetic" becomes reactionary to the point that they begin to think in terms of what is prophetic "dreams" and prophetic "revelation" by which it have no connection with the prophetic message something that is reliable (Psa. 119:7, 9). God's Word is reliable (Psa. 119:7, 9). God's Word is true and righteous altogether (Psa. 119:9).  Even in Isaiah 8:20 where it refers to the prophetic message something that is reliable by saying, "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because t...

It is so important that believers know how to read properly God's Word. Unfortunately there are many leaders within the church today do not know how to read God's Word properly so as to rush in their reading of scripture. There are many within the Charismatic and Pentecostal circles who think that the louder they shout, that quoting the scripture, and to give a "twist" or spin on what the truth is by finding themselves sinking deeper into a "spiritual" quicksand. Sanctimoniousness along with scripture quoting does not make people students of the Bible but to reveal that of their ignorance of the truth of God's Word. The Bible admonish us as believers by saying, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15). To study God's Word requires that believer's think. And the hard work of God's Word that we think biblically. The contemporary church toda...