What makes a doctrine false?
Please quote what you would like to respond to. Thanks.
1. You've never heard it before. (knee-jerk defensive response)
2. You have heard of it before, but assume it's false. (haven't looked into it)
3. Doesn't align with your church's doctrine (your church would say it is false)
4. Doesn't align with your personal doctrine (your views differ)
5. YOUR "Bible" says it is false. (other biblical opinions don't matter)
6. It makes you uncomfortable. (therefore it must be wrong)
7. Everyone knows it's false. (except those who believe it)
'For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus,
whom we have not preached,
or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received,
or another gospel,
which ye have not accepted,
ye might well bear with him.'
(2Co.11:4 )
'I marvel that ye are so soon removed
from him that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel:'
(Gal.1:6)
Hello @St, Steven,
I believe a false doctrine to be a doctrine that is either not Biblical (3), or is the imposition of a truth upon this dispensation, which belongs to a past dispensation (1), or is brought forward from a future one (2), so that we are then appropriating a truth which either no longer applies, or is yet to come into force.
1) For example we are obviously no longer expected to come to God via a sacrificial offering: for Christ has died and risen from the dead opening up the way to God, through Himself.
Also the preaching, in this day of grace, that righteousness is by the works of the law and not by the faith of Christ (Rom. 4:5), is contrary to the word of God. .
2) Hymenaeus and Philetus also caused much anguish to believers in their day, because they claimed that the resurrection was passed already (2 Tim. 2:18), thereby overthrowing the faith of some.
Also by not keeping, '
The Unity of The Spirit,' in the bond of peace, with it's one body, etc., in Ephesians 4:3-7, and not recognising the things that differ between Paul's two ministries (Acts 26:16), the first ministry being the subject of Romans, Corinthians 1& 2, Thessalonians 1&2, Galatians & Hebrews.
3) Also, by the preaching of a gospel that is '
another gospel', other than that preached by Paul. Who was
'The Apostle to the Gentiles'. Taking into account that He had two ministries: which ran consecutively; the second containing the truth which applies specifically to the days following the departure of the nation of Israel into unbelief at the end of the Acts period (Acts 28:25-28), when salvation was sent to the Gentiles (Acts 28:28), followed by Israels subsequent scattering among the nations.
The content of that second ministry is found in Romans 5:12-8:39; Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon, and concerns the Church which is the body of Christ.
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris