The Danger of Twisting God’s Word

[Jay Ross]

Well I forgive you, and it can happen to any of us. Catching ourselves is HS. I was referring to the ones who make it a habit. But, yes the way we respond is key.
However, I have no patience for those who come here purposefully to deceive and divide us . Yeah, there's that.

The secret is to catch us acting disgracefully before we hit the "Post reply" so that it does not get posted at all.

The next best thing is to be able to edit your post when you realise that you have posted a disgraceful response before any other members can reply or quote your disgraceful post. Then you might be able to claim that you did not act disgracefully in response to what another member has posted.

 

[bdavidc]

Scott that is what the Priests, Scribes and Pharisees did during Christ's first advent.

Ignoring someone who keeps pushing false, unbiblical teachings and harassing others isn’t what the priests and Pharisees did, it’s what Jesus told us to do. The Pharisees rejected truth and killed the prophets, but we’re told to reject heretics after a first and second warning (Titus 3:10–11). If someone keeps twisting Scripture and refuses correction, you’re not sinning by ignoring them, you’re obeying God. You’re not called to debate endlessly with people who have no interest in truth. Jesus Himself walked away from mockers and warned not to cast pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6). If they keep rejecting the Word, let them go.

 

[Scott Downey]

Ignoring someone who keeps pushing false, unbiblical teachings and harassing others isn’t what the priests and Pharisees did, it’s what Jesus told us to do. The Pharisees rejected truth and killed the prophets, but we’re told to reject heretics after a first and second warning (Titus 3:10–11). If someone keeps twisting Scripture and refuses correction, you’re not sinning by ignoring them, you’re obeying God. You’re not called to debate endlessly with people who have no interest in truth. Jesus Himself walked away from mockers and warned not to cast pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6). If they keep rejecting the Word, let them go.

To ignore a poster, click their name icon and select ignore. Eventually you wont see posts, but I have seen it take a few minutes for the server to respond. It is likely the best thing you can do. You cannot control what they say, but you don't have to read it. And you can always choose to view ignored posts in a thread.

A spirit of condemnation coming from anyone at you is not of God. No one can bring a charge against God's elect and have it mean anything with God.

Romans 8
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

 

[ScottA]

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We can learn a Lesson Luke 22:3 that says, “Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.” This is one of the most chilling moments in Scripture, a man who walked with Jesus, witnessed His miracles, and heard the truth from His own lips, yet allowed himself to become a tool of Satan. Judas’s betrayal was not sudden. It was the result of a hardened heart, unbelief, and rejection of truth. His life serves as a solemn warning of what can happen when someone resists the Word of God and allows lies to take root.

Throughout the Bible, twisting or rejecting God’s Word is shown to be spiritually dangerous. In Genesis 3:1, Satan’s very first tactic was to distort God’s command: “Did God actually say…?” This same method is used today when people twist Scripture to support man-made doctrines or traditions that are not found in the Bible. Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of His day in Mark 7:7–9, saying, “In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men... You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

When truth is replaced by false teaching, it opens the door for spiritual deception. 2 Timothy 4:3–4 warns that “the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but… will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” Judas Iscariot is a tragic example of where this road can lead. He didn’t just doubt, he cooperated with darkness. And when Satan entered him, it revealed just how far he had drifted from truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 makes it even clearer: those who “refused to love the truth and so be saved” will be given over to strong delusion because they “had pleasure in unrighteousness.” Twisting Scripture is not a small error, it is rebellion against the God who gave us His Word as truth (John 17:17). Those who do so are in danger of being completely overtaken by deception, just like Judas.

Let this be a wake-up call. The Word of God is not ours to edit or interpret however we please. We are warned in 2 Peter 3:16 that some twist Scripture “to their own destruction.” Stand firm in the truth. Do not trade it for man’s wisdom, religious tradition, or false teaching. Judas followed Jesus with his feet, but not with his heart, and in the end, it cost him everything. Let his story remind us: rejecting God’s Word opens the door to Satan’s lies. Stay grounded in Scripture, and let the truth guard your soul.

Unfortunately, the deed is already done.

Judas' story was a living example and prophecy, of: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened" (Matthew 13:33). This is the parable Jesus gave referring to "the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees" (Matthew 16:6). And yet, was also given for the future and what was yet to come.

Paul and Peter's warning the are a prophecy of things to come, the fulfillment of the parable of leaven on the grand scale of these times--our times. Meaning: The common doctrine now taught, "already at work" among those "false teachers" spoken of by Peter--is now "all leavened"

 

[Dash RipRock]

Scott that is what the Priests, Scribes and Pharisees did during Christ's first advent.

Yeah they tried hard to put Jesus and His Apostles on ignore and they tried to force the people to put Jesus and His Apostles on ignore

The fact of the matter Jesus and His Apostles very much disturbed the religious teachers of their day disturbing commonly held religious belief of the day because it was false doctrine.

Jesus and His Apostles were actually helping the people by exposing false doctrine and they did so in order to reach those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, to reach those that desire to be in right standing with the Lord who desire to be saved.

The religious people then and now love their false religious teachings more than they love the Lord because they have been deceived and do not rightly divide the Word of Truth. These days we see many following false teachers and false denominations instead of what the Lord teaches in His Word

This is very sad as those doing such are no longer saved. They have fallen for satan's original trick he pulled on Adam and Eve where he tricks people in to ignoring what God says and that's the name of the devil's game right there and few are aweare of what's going on because they believe whatever their religious social club tell them without studying God's Word for themselves

They went after Him. Lied about Him. Twisted His words.

That's what religious people do who claim to know the Lord but reject His Word because they are walking in darkness.

Christians that I know understand that their faith produces good works. On this forum there are some very mixed up people, however.

And those not producing good works have in fact turn away from the Lord and are walking in darkness with the devil

believing that God cannot defend Himself and His words

So when someone is in opposition to God's Word you're all good with leaving them in that condition and not trying to help them?

That's what people do who are NOT walking in the love of the Lord. Love would try to help them.