dW 05.16.11

teaching

Guidelines to sound theology:

1. The Bible is reliable.  Biblical understanding is given by the Holy Spirit who illuminates our comprehension thereof.  The Bible is our standard and we must know it well so that we will not be deceived.
Read 2 Timothy 3:12-17.

2. All heresy originates from deviant teachings about the person and nature of Jesus Christ. 
Read Galatians 1; 1 John 4.

3. Do not accept anything that is just a little off.  If you advert from your course by a few degrees, then measure to your intended destination after a couple hundred miles, you will find yourself way off course.  You must follow "truth" to its logical end to see if it does indeed lead to "Truth".
Read 2 Peter 2.

4. Anyone can use theological/church words to make what appears to be sound teaching.  However, if we do not require them to provide definitions to these words, then we are opening ourselves up for deception.
Read Romans 16:17-18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-7.

scripture

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

 

En Espanol, 2 Pedro 2:1-3

 

quote

 

He that perverts truth shall soon be incapable of knowing the true from the false. If you persist in wearing glasses that distort, everything will be distorted to you.

Charles Spurgeon

 

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