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Heresy is a departure from some doctrine, cardinal doctrine taught by the church, and it affects like a cancer the entire body of truth. Therefore we need instruction, constructive instruction and teaching, lest we get destruction. This is the negative work of Satan. He does not desire positive inst
The heresies I laboured under sinfully and foolishly for years were many; Pentecostalism, Arminianism, and Anabaptism are the three main categories. These divisive, horrible and detestable poisons ought always to be exposed and condemned by antithetical instruction in the biblical truth. When I enco
The list grows! The sinfulness of sin is clearly set forth in its very ungodly nature in our sinful flesh, in which there dwells no good (Romans 7:18). For notice that Paul adds here also the sin of "sedition." The term in the Greek is "dichstasiai," which comes from a verb which means: to stand apa
So, while some were stuffed with food, and others hungry, they commenced to celebrate the Communion. That is not the Lord’s Supper (vs. 20). I heard, says Paul, that there are schisms among you (vs. 18, divisions). Worse yet, these schisms reveal that you have heresies. A schism is a heresy coming o
Besides being heretics, these men were also invariably schismatics. That was not only the case because heresy in the nature of the case is schismatic, inasmuch as it threatens the basis for the church's unity, which is the truth. But these men were schismatics because they refused to submit to the d
Every kind of heresy appears again in the modern church. Naturally, these heresies run counter to the creeds. In the churches which maintain the same creeds as we do there are all kinds of these heresies being taught. Also, in the churches which stand on the basis of such Calvinistic confessions as
"There shall be false teachers among you" even as "there were false prophets also among the people." Long ago Moses warned God's people about false prophets who would call them away from the God who had redeemed them and away from a complete love for and obedience to Him (Deut. 13:1-5). They are ins
This insistence on the necessity of the preaching of the gospel as the means by which the Holy Spirit illuminates inwardly the elect children of God does not rule out certain exceptions: "At the same time we recognize that God can illuminate whom and when he will, even without the external ministry,
Sects only serve their divinely appointed purpose to bring out the contrast between truth and error, so that the truth may be manifest in contrast to the lie. Again, in Galatians 5:20 the sin of heresy (sects) is mentioned in one breath with such sins as idolatry, witchcraft, strife, sedition, murde
False doctrines, lies, crept into the church and through the ages had their influence upon the history of the church. We will follow the course of these heresies in as far as is necessary for the correct view of the church and the truth. The second thing that happened was that the church, partly spu