8 Symptoms of False Doctrine

8 Symptoms of False Doctrine #46041 Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:50 AM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,324 Likes: 37 NH chestnutmare OP Annie Oakley
OP chestnutmare Annie Oakley Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3,324 Likes: 37 NH	Many things combine to make the present inroad of false doctrine peculiarly dangerous. 1) There is an undeniable zeal in some of the teachers of error: their “earnestness” makes many think they must be right. 2) There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge: many fancy that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe guides. 3) There is a general tendency to free thought and free inquiry in these latter days: many like to prove their independence of judgment, by believing novelties. 4) There is a wide-spread desire to appear charitable and liberal-minded: many seem half ashamed of saying that anybody can be in the wrong. 5) There is a quantity of half-truth taught by the modern false teachers: they are incessantly using Scriptural terms and phrases in an unscriptural sense. 6) There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of inward, invisible heart-work. 7) There is a silly readiness in every direction to believe everybody who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, and a determination to forget that Satan often masquerades himself “as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). 8) There is a wide-spread “gullibility” among professing Christians: every heretic who tells his story plausibly is sure to be believed, and everybody who doubts him is called a persecutor and a narrow-minded man. All these things are peculiar symptoms of our times. I defy any observing person to deny them. They tend to make the assaults of false doctrine in our day peculiarly dangerous. They make it more than ever needful to cry aloud, “Do not be carried away!” ~ J.C. Ryle The Chestnut Mare

Re: 8 Symptoms of False Doctrine chestnutmare #46050 Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:08 PM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 330 South Africa Johan Enthusiast
Johan Enthusiast Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 330 South Africa	I would say "On the spot"! Definitely a "how to identify a false teacher" Quote There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of inward, invisible heart-work. I once said to a pastor that for the believer not all "doing" are outward actions. Sometimes, and perhaps most the time, what we should do is to believe. That's the invisible heart-work you are referring to. Johan Last edited by Johan; Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:25 PM.

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