Most Christians are Deceived Because Their FINAL AUTHORITY is the TEACHINGS of their Churches/Religion/Doctrines of Men. It is like telling that their RELIGION or religious organization is the only one that can save their souls from hell, and not Jesus Christ. They always say that their final authority is the bible but when you point scriptures contradicting their doctrines, they will lashed out you, and accuse you of distorting the gospel. They will cite one or few verses in favor of their doctrine, and forget about the verses contradicting them... You will show them the verses contradicting a doctrine, and they will try to twist or bend the meaning by conforming it back to the doctrines/teachings of their church or their religious organization. Most parts of the bible can be understood by even school graders or elementary students(except for some verses that pertains to the last days which mostly are symbolic), and yet they manage to twist the meaning by conforming to what they have been taught or fed by their church or religion. You don't just believe anything what is being taught especially if the eternal destination(hell or heaven) of your soul is at stake. What you believe will affect the way you live, and you might be living wrong because you are taught wrong....
I am NOT saying that we should ignore everything that is being taught by our preachers, but there are things that we must accept, and there are things that we should reject especially if it contradicts any verse in the bible...
If verses contradicts, we should continually pray, and ask God to reveal the right answers, and give us spirit of wisdom, discernment, understanding, signs, revelations regarding what we are inquiring about..
The BIBLE is given to check false doctrines, and NOT doctrines of men/church/religion to INFLUENCE our understanding of the Scriptures. Deception happens when we let ourselves brainwashed by teachings of men/church/religion....
This is what i believe, every religion has flaws somewhere in their doctrines because their teachings orginated, developed, formed by pure human beings that can make mistakes.
All of them claims they are the RIGHT PATHS. All of them believe they have the right doctrines...
There is only one that cannot make mistake, and that is the Holy Spirit. Seek Him thru prayer continually, until He answers....
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2 Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will NOT ENDURE SOUND TEACHING , but having ITCHING EARS they will accumulate for themselves teachers to SUIT THEIR OWN PASSIONS, and will TURN AWAY from LISTENING the TRUTH, and WANDER OFF into MYTHS.
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1 Timothy 4: 1 But the [Holy] Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, paying attention instead to DECEITFUL, & SEDUCTIVE SPIRITS, & DOCTRINES OF DEMONS..
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Matthew 7:15 Beware of FALSE PROPHETS, which come to you in SHEEP'S CLOTHING, but inwardly they are RAVENING WOLVES...
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Hosea 4:6My people are DESTROYED for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.
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DO NOT BELIEVE IF A RELIGION FORBIDS YOU TO READ the BIBLE for YOURSELF.
The bible is for ALL. That way you will detect if what is being preach is false, or correct.
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is PROFITABLE for DOCTRINE, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION in RIGHTEOUSNESS:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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