Let us never forget that we who stand in the historic stream of Christianity really believe that false doctrine, at those crucial points where false doctrine is heresy, is not a small thing. If we do not make clear by word and practice our position for truth as truth and against false doctrine, we are building a wall between the next generation and the gospel.
Monday, March 24, 2014
False Teaching Is No Small Thing
Let us never forget that we who stand in the historic stream of Christianity really believe that false doctrine, at those crucial points where false doctrine is heresy, is not a small thing. If we do not make clear by word and practice our position for truth as truth and against false doctrine, we are building a wall between the next generation and the gospel.
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Yes, it may mean the difference between heaven and hell for the unsuspecting listener; so, indeed it is no small thing.
A little leaven will leaven the whole lump...
-Carolyn
I encourage you to continue doing what you are doing, Glenn.
My mind boggles sometimes, I admit, when I am confronted with questions from critics of the faith.
I was just watching the cluster of four videos at a webpage:
http://bibviz.com/
and I have to admit I have no convincing response to some of the things in those videos, such as on contradictions in the Bible.
Glenn, if you need material for future posts, consider rebutting those videos with your considerable knowledge of scripture and apologetics.
* Dean S.
Dean,
These types of things are all over the internet. There is no want of them. If we apologists were to try to respond to each site, we'd never have time for anything else.
The main thing is that there is nothing on these sites which haven't been rebutted and corrected thousands of times. Yet sites like this one pretend they've never seen any rebuttals or explanations for their claims, because they know that the majority of the people haven't seen them either, and therefore they can just keep spewing their garbage and getting more people upset.
If you would like personal responses to some things you have seen - such as supposed contradictions - please e-mail me at the address on the right side of my blog.
Thanks, Glenn! I may take you up on your offer of email exchange within the next few weeks.
Maybe we could use this page to look at a few claims found at that webpage in the meantime.
1. "God is love," vs. "I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your family."
2. "A man is not justified by works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ," vs. "If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."
3. "There shall no man see Me and live," vs. Jacob, Abraham and Moses seeing God and living.
4. On good and evil, Is 45:7 vs. 1 John 4:8.
5. God's voice, Acts 9:7 vs. Acts 22:9.
6. Punishment, Deut 5:9 vs. Deut 24:16.
7. David's purchase, 2 Sam 24:24 vs. 1 Chron 21:25.
8. Sam Harris claims that 9 million children die each year, most of them with parents praying that their life will be spared.
Dean,
Interesting choice of items picked. These should be easy to respond by most Christians. So I have to ask, are you a Christian?
I'm wondering about the sincerity of your comments, based upon your choices.
I asked you to e-mail me for such discussions, essentially because the comment string here is inappropriate to use in this manner; this is not the topic of the article.
Perhaps you think you can have a "public embarrassment" moment by "gotcha" questions?
You have taken many statements out of context and placed them against other out-of-context references and consider that proper argumentation? In the first statement you don't even give a passage for the claim that God sends wild animals on children and to destroy children.
Your last statement isn't even about the Bible, rather it is just one of those atheist talking points used to "prove" how "horrid" God is.
if you want the truth rather than playing the "gotcha" game, use the email
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