Good evening, Lady.
A provocative statement.
Who has the authority to adjudicate what is or is not a 'doctrine of demons' ?
And who or what do you mean by 'victims' ?
The greatest among you must be your servant.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Pax et Bonum
Quote: "Who has the authority to adjudicate what is or is not a "doctrine of demons"
Good question.
Jesus has ALL authority, Matthew 28:18, this leaves none for man.
So we must use Gods authority to judge others teaching whether it is from God or man.
Some wrongly teach we are not to judge.
The Bible does not teach this.
The Bible teaches we are not to have a hypocritical judgment.
Meaning judging others for a sin that we also partake in.
The Bible teaches we must judge with righteous judgment.
That means according to Gods word/gospel/law.
For only Gods word is truth. Only God is righteous.
To judge righteous judgment is to Judge according to Gods word, according to His law.
Matthew 7:1; 5
Judge not, that you be not judged...
Hypocrite First remove the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye
- Do not judge according to appearance but judge with righteous judgement.
We are commanded by God to make judgments on others who teach!
1John 4:1,
- Beloved do not believe every spirit but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
We can only use Gods oracles as the standard by which we judge teachers/others.
1Peter 4:11,
- If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever Amen.
How then do we discern between a false teacher and a man of God who speaks the oracles of God?
The only way is to be spiritually discerned.
And that only comes through Study of Gods word.
If one is not a good Bible student, one cannot know a false teacher from a gospel preacher.
2Timothy 2:2; 2:15
- And these things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to
faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
- be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a
worker(diligent in study)who does not need to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of TRUTH.
All truth comes from the word.
Those who teach error cannot be teaching the word.
The only way to know is to be educated yourself in the word.
How to get to know the word of truth:
1) Study
2) Prayer
3) Must have the right heart, a heart that desires only the truth.
If one does not only desire truth he will never know the truth.
Matthew 7:7-8,
- Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you,
For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Some never learn the truth because their heart is not seeking to know the truth,
Matthew 13:10,
-And His disciples came and said to Jesus, Why do You speak to them in parables ?
He answered and said to them,
Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Therefore I speak to them in parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
and in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,
Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not percieve;
For the HEARTS OF THIS PEOPLE HAVE GROWN DULL.
They did not desire truth therefore they did not know the truth.
John 18:38,
- Pilate said to Him, What is truth?.....
John 17:17,
- Sanctify them by Your truth. Your WORD is truth.
We must use the word to discern whether the teaching is from God or whether it be doctrines of demons,
Romans 2:2,
- But we know that the
judgement of God is according to TRUTH against those who practise such things.
