Question:
Christians: How do you feel about people that expose false teaching?
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2011-02-17 00:36:35 UTC
when the false teaching comes from the mouths of well-known preachers?
Are we to assume they are anointed and stay quite? Or, by speaking up, would we turn off the very people that need to know and it be all for not?
'Cause it's getting pretty bad out there...
Ten answers:
ManoGod
2011-02-17 03:15:27 UTC
We should walk the truth and speak it. But we need to do so in love. If someone is teaching falsely, then first you go to them one on one and teach them correctly. If they do not choose to listen you take "one or two witnesses" and try again. If they still will not listen then it is a matter for the church and you share it with the church.



Paul in his epistles named some by name that were teaching contrary to the doctrine of Christ.
Ernie
2011-02-17 08:45:27 UTC
First, and very seriously, make SURE it is a false teaching, and not just a doctrine that goes against something you have been taught. Many times, because of denominational teaching, someone hears a true bible doctrine and rejects it as false; without searching the word or seeking understanding from the Holy Spirit. Many Christians need to unlearn some of the doctrinal teachings they learned and get hold of the truth of God's word. It is harder to unlearn than it is to learn, so dislodging teachings that we have rooted in our soul may be hard; especially if we don't want to let go. Prayer for revelation knowledge for someone is the best answer, because God can reveal His truth to anyone who has an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. I always expose false teachings, and give book, chapter, and verse/s needed to reveal the truth of what God says verses what man's tradition says. Jesus is the truth, and He must always be first in our life. Romans 10:8-10 is how anyone can be born again.
?
2011-02-17 08:52:49 UTC
A false teacher/preacher is someone that preaches that certain sins are ok , most tv preachers are false ( Not all of them). I am not attacking any church denomination but I have found that Methodists , Catholics , Episcopalian are most likely to teach false Doctrines but that's just my opinion. One problem I have with most churches is that they don't read/teach out of the 1611 King James Version.
?
2011-02-17 17:10:49 UTC
The calling of God to preach is of the most importance to have understanding of God's word. It requires that one dedicate his/her life to study of God's word so that they would not lead others astray.

Unfortunately too many look at it as a job, not a calling. Therefore, they take the sermon mailed from headquarters and present it as truth to the congregation. This appears to be similar to the priests in the days of Jesus.



Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.



If this is what was happening in the days of Jesus, why would we think it could not happen now?
2011-02-17 09:27:38 UTC
All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life’s purpose.



Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

But the concept of “many ways” was absorbed subliminally in one’s life as a youngster. One is conditioned into that way of thinking before he or she had found out its smuggled prejudices. It takes years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, “ you must be open to everything” is really, “You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too. “



Indian culture has that veneer of openness, but it is highly critical of anything that hints at a challenge to it. It is no accident that within that so-called tolerant culture was birthed the caste system. All-inclusive philosophies can only come at the cost of truth. And no religion denies its core beliefs.



Jesus on the other hand:

Historians, poets, philosophers-and a host of others have regarded Him as the centrepiece of history. He himself made a statement that was very dramatic and daring when He said to the apostle Thomas, “ I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me “ (J 14:6). Every word of that statement challenges the fundamental beliefs of the Indian culture, and in reality, actually stands against an entire world today.

Just look at the implicit claims in that statement. First and foremost, He asserted that there is only one way to God. That shocks post-modern moods and mind-sets. Hinduism and Bahaism have long challenged the concept of a single way to God. The Hindu religion, with its multifaceted belief system, vociferously attacks such exclusivity.



Jesus also unequivocally stated that God is the Author of life and that meaning in life lies in coming to Him. This assert would be categorically denied by Buddhism which is a nontheistic if not atheistic religion.



Jesus revealed Himself as the Son of God who led the way to the Father.

Islam considers that claim to be blasphemous. How can God have a Son?

Jesus claimed that we can personally know God and the absolute nature of His truth. Agnostics deny that possibility.



One can go down the line and see that every claim that Jesus made of Himself challenges every culture’s most basic assumptions about life and meaning. (It is important to remember, of course, that these basic religions within the Indian framework are also not in concert with each other. Buddha was a Hindu before he rejected some of Hinduism’s fundamental doctrines and conceived in their place the Buddhist way. Islam radically differs from Hinduism.)



Now - this is the truth - the non Christian really has no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God:



“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.



You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “



For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

Col 2:9 (NIV)
FROG E
2011-02-17 08:39:17 UTC
We are warned about such people in the bible. God tells us that if we know the truth...we cannot be deceived.

It is one of the signs of end times...an increase in false teachings.
Mystro
2011-02-17 08:43:11 UTC
~ Good Bible Teachers/Preachers keep everything they teach from the Bible then there would be no false teachings . Keep it Biblical folks...
servant
2011-02-18 20:51:55 UTC
i would try the spirits & yes i would name names, if i could prove them to be false teachers with scripture.
moksha
2011-02-17 08:38:46 UTC
obviously, conquer the untruth by quoting scriptural words of truth
ℒ'amour est ℒe chaos
2011-02-17 08:44:20 UTC
No one should preach hate and to not stand up to someone preaching hate is to be on the same path as them.


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