[Alex Murphy]

Let’s define the terms:

The church: The body of Christ – those regenerate, sanctified Christ followers who have sincerely called upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, King of the universe, Creator, soul saver and sole savior of mankind, and have been forgiven, redeemed and saved by grace. The church recognizes God’s holy word as infallible, unchanging and eternal. The terms “orthodox,” “conservative,” “fundamentalist” or “Religious Right” are sometimes used pejoratively by those outside the church (and at times from within) in an effort to undermine the church and water down the word of God. The church is hated by the world because the world first hated Christ and, as such, must suffer persecution.

The false church: The body of self-identified Christians who may, or may not, have begun the process of sanctification through belief upon and acceptance of Christ. The false church either rejects the infallibility of scripture outright, or seeks to rationalize and radically “reform,” revise or reinterpret scripture to justify sin. False-church apostates are Olympic caliber mental and exegetical gymnasts who systemically call good that which the word of God calls evil. They imagine many paths to God and hold that the Holy-Spirit-inspired men used of God to record the Holy Scriptures were, truth be told, rather uninspired after all. Thus, our apostate friends attempt to satisfy their spiritual hunger with Christianity à la carte, taking that which is palatable and leaving behind those bitter morsels given to curb the carnal appetites. The false church is loved by the world and can be summed by its central doctrine, coined long ago by its founding father, which is this: “Did God really say?”

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[Cvengr]

Rom 10:6-7
(6) But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
(7) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

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[American Constitutionalist]

Correct me if I am either wrong, or somewhat getting on the right track, Peter is basically talking about some leaders, or trouble maker ring leaders among the early church and he said to stay away from them and be careful since they do not know " THE WAY OF THE TRUTH " and follow their sensuality.
It's one thing to flaunt or boast about some thing publicly and even use your sensuality as part of your theology , however ? whether Christians admit it or not there are some whom struggle with sensuality secretly.
There is a difference between the 2 correct ?
Peter was not talking about those who are caught in sensuality and struggle with it secretly ? correct ?
He's talking about those who flaunt it publically, whom deny Christ the one whom bought them and have their own made up false doctrine, example i.e. Jim Jones and Jonesthown.
You are correct, many will deny the Christ and follow many paths to God in which Christ himself said " broad is the way and wide is the path that leads to destruction " .
As I have grown, I have less and less affiliation with any denomination, and when someone even asks me what religion I am ? I say to them, none, I have no religion or part of or afiliation of any denomination, I just believe in Christ and God's word the Bible.

[MeganC]

Blessings upon you for posting this!

[GBA]

I believe that “many paths lead to God” or maybe it's one incredibly wide path at the beginning that slowly narrows, but either and all lead to One door and each and all of us are there somewhere, headed one way or the other, in our journey.

If you look closely, on every path we wayward humans take, Jesus is with us, gently fanning what little of His Holy Fire may still smolder within, keeping it aglow and showing/telling us each step of The Way home.

Whether we ignore Him or not, He uses whatever and whomever is available to Him in our world, whatever is handy, to knock and knock at our door tirelessly, ever present, so that we might open it to Him.

Fellow Christians are wise to remember the power of their example of those most innocent of knowledge and take to heart why Thou Shall Not Kill that small flame Jesus is fanning in those most in need by blowing it out with the fury of their truth and understanding, in order to demonstrate how wrong they and their new understanding are, as are those in whom they might find inspiration so early in their journey.

[sauropod]

Great article, great post, and I agree with it.

‘Pod.

[Carry_Okie]

Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The word commonly translated as "iniquity" is more accurately "lawlessness." To what "law" would the Messiah be referring? Hmmm?

[dragonblustar]

Thank you for posting this. I was driving back home from our family trip when I was thinking about those who return to sin. “A dog returns to its vomit”, was the thought that kept popping into my head.