ADDING TO OR TAKING FROM GOD’S WORD
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I. WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF HUMANISM AND SKEPTICISM. SOME OF THE FALSE TEACHINGS THAT WE ENCOUNTER ARE:
MACRO EVOLUTION
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
DENYING AN ETERNAL, INTELLIGENT CREATOR.
A. THOMAS JEFFERSON CUT OUT THE PARTS OF THE GOSPELS THAT HE COULDN’T UNDERSTAND. LITTLE WAS LEFT.
II. FALSE TEACHINGS IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES.
A. SADDUCEES
B. GNOSTICS
C. SORCERY
D. SALVATION BY WORKS
E. POLYTHEISM
III. MANY “CHRISTIAN” HUMANISTS FEEL THAT THEY MUST TAMPER WITH GOD’S WORD.
A. NOT TO ADD TO OR TAKE FROM. REV. 22: 18-19.
B. BY DOING SO, WE PUT OURSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD.
C. IF WE DESTROY GOD’S WORD, THE CHRISTIAN HAS NO STANDARD OF CONDUCT, MORALITY. EVERYONE CHOOSES WHAT HE WANTS TO BELIEVE IS RIGHT.
D. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT SELF OVER GOD.
IV. SOME LIBERAL BIBLE STUDENTS DISMISS GENESIS AS MYTH AND FOLKLORE.
V. MANY LIBERAL BIBLE STUDENTS ATTACK THE APOSTLE PAUL AS BEING ANTI-CHRISTIAN.
A. THE APOSTLE PETER ACCEPT PAUL’S WRITINGS AS SCRIPTURE ALONG WITH THE SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 2 PETER 3: 15,16.
B. ONE CRITIC, WHO QUESTIONS PAUL’S SELECTION BY CHRIST, IS N.T. WRIGHT, OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.
C. MANY PEOPLE DON’T LIKE PAUL’S WRITINGS BECAUSE THEY CONDEMN PRACTICES THAT THESE PEOPLE WANT TO DO. PAUL CONDEMNS:
1. HOMOSEXUALITY.
2. PAYING OF PASTORS.
3. CONTINUING TO KEEP CEREMONIAL LAW REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS: PAYING TITHE, CIRCUMCISION, AND KEEPING YEARLY SABBATHS AND HOLY DAYS. ROM. 1: 26, 27.
VI. PAUL CALLED BY CHRIST. THIS MAKES HIM AN APOSTLE.
A. PAUL- CALLED AFTER CHRIST’S RESURRECTION AND BEFORE HIS ASCENSION.
B. READ THE ACCOUNT: ACTS 9: 1-22.
VII. ALL SCRIPTURE GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD. 2 TIM. 3:16.
A. DON’T TAMPER WITH GOD’S WORD. REV. 22: 18,19.
VIII. CONCLUSION: GOD’S WORD IS SACRED AND NOT TO BE TAMPERED WITH BY MAN. IS YOUR PASTOR TAMPERING WITH GOD’S WORD IN ORDER TO PLEASE HIMSELF OR HIS CONGREGATION? IF SO, LOOK FOR A CHURCH WHICH TEACHES UNADULTERATED BIBLE TRUTHS.