APOSTASY AND FALSE TEACHING
"...And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." (Matthew 24:11-13)
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer." (1 Timothy 4:1-5)
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist" (2 John 7)
"For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." (Jude 4)
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Unless otherwise stated the articles are by David W. Norris
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Essentials of the Gospel and why Evangelicals have left them
There are so many today who claim to be preaching the Gospel of Christ. They flood the airwaves, have their own TV channels and swamp the internet. Much of it is drivel and far removed from the truth as it is in Christ. Confusion reigns. ‘Evangelicalism’, such as it now is, left the biblical Gospel behind a long time ago. Neither the Early Church Fathers nor the Reformers or Puritans were in any sense of the word ‘evangelicals’. All would doubtless repudiate without hesitation the message so often peddled today in any of their names. But then, so many evangelicals today claim to have greater insight than the giants of the faith. They regard them as children of their day, the Reformation was a mistake and the Puritans as narrow-minded or even bigoted.
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The rise of rationalist criticism within conservative theology
Like many since, Warfield made the mistake of thinking he could answer rationalism by moving across to its own ground without becoming infected with it himself. The scandal is that today most conservative evangelical and fundamentalist institutions of learning still repeat Benjamin Warfield’s mantra that textual criticism is neutral. Warfield regarded textual criticism as dealing with ‘facts’ rather than with the speculation of higher criticism. Yet, facts are what the Bible says they are.
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