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Enlarged in reach by multiple media platforms today, many from the religious educated elite attain even international acclaim and standing. Rather than humility, more careful, diligent attention and fidelity to God’s Word as it is written and the Holy Spirit instructs because of this, a number are caught in Satan’s snare and begin to think more highly of themselves than they ought; teaching what they ought not in compromise, falsehood and hypocrisy (Ezekiel 28:17; Romans 12:3; 1 Timothy 1:3-7, 3:1-7). One such internationally known Bible teacher recently exemplified this reality by declaring on his radio program that in spite of the legalists, he and his elders could defy the clear teaching of 1 Timothy 2:12 after first affirming its continuing authoritative validity.
I write nothing in part two of this re-titled and edited 2013 blog repost God does not already know and as a result, the judgment prepared for members of the religious educated elite who in all haughtiness corrupt God’s Word and deny His power while teaching others to do the same is not at rest. Many that have died without repentance await their final judgment in Hades with all other sinners; those that yet live and refuse to repent will follow in due time after also suffering God’s judgment of His house. Along with churches, this judgment will destroy all of the related institutions of religious education that facilitated the arrogance of the religious educated elite who are guilty.
Originally Posted June 30, 2013
It was not long before scholasticism (the formal study, development, teaching and dissemination of the philosophical and theological thinking of religious educated men) had come to bring confusion into the post-apostolic churches scattered around the Roman Empire and by the Middle Ages, to dominate Catholicism. Overcome by the spiritual deadness and unbiblical religious practices of Catholicism, by the 16th century religious educated priest Martin Luther re-discovered biblical Christianity in of all places, the Bible’s New Testament!
After leading the attempted reform of Catholicism, Martin Luther was in the vanguard of Protestantism’s theologians in which now--five hundred years later, a great deal of their proud scholasticism has managed to do as much if not more damage by way of false, confusing and conflicting doctrines in the churches as that of any previous scholarly teachers in Christian history. From the corrupt justification for enslaving my forefathers to the rejection of the plainly given prophecy of a 1,000 year reign of Christ with His saints on this present earth (Revelation 20:4-6), legion are their “doctrines of demons” (1 Timothy 4:1-3, NKJV).
Truly, just like the Sadducees in 1st century Israel, we have arrogant theologians at this hour that refuse to believe the whole Bible or in God’s power to heal through, much less raise His sons to immortal glory due to their private interpretations. Again, such men have their own agenda not Christ’s which begins outside of God’s Word. They belittle the child-like faith our Lord taught us to place in Him as “mysticism” and scoff at the critical role of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers preferring instead to proudly teach assent to doctrines they have constructed in accord with their own philosophical systems of religious thinking as all that is necessary.
Never mind too, many of them are carnal, spiritually weak and immature if truly saved at all because they have no power (1 Corinthians 3:1-4, 4:19-20)! Claiming to be wise because of their credentials from esteemed institutions, they do not realize their true lack of wisdom in having foolishly corrupted or “rejected the word of the Lord” in any part for the cause of their own thinking. And so, God asks, “what wisdom do they have,” (Jeremiah 8:8-9, NKJV)? If God Almighty asks this sobering question, ought not we to do the same especially since these men are standing to speak as spiritual authorities to us?
Part of the problem from ancient times is that the so-called “people of God” permit themselves to be led and deceived by those whose education, credentials and position they proudly admire. This is what the Lord says about it: ‘“An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end,’” (Jeremiah 5:30-31, NKJV)? The apostle Paul chides the Corinthian church in a similar way (2 Corinthians 11:1-4).
Did not our Lord Jesus and His apostles warn us about false prophets and teachers especially in these latter days (Matthew 24:11; 2 Peter 2:1)? What? Is a seminary education and credentials the only things required for a person to escape being identified as a false teacher, esteemed instead as a theologian with license as an expert to deceive in the name of worldly tolerance among the churches? I don’t think so and whoever does ignores the warning of God through His prophets, the Lord and His apostles to their soul’s peril (Jeremiah 17:5-6, 12-13)!
When He had finished with the Sadducees on that day, the people listening in were “astonished at His teaching” and those proud members of Israel’s religious educated elite departed His company speechless because their mistaken doctrine had been shattered to pieces by the Lord (Matthew 22:33; Luke 20:39-40, NKJV). If the Lord got in the faces of Israel’s religious educated elite, where do we get off thinking we can make the same mistakes, have the same attitudes and do the same things He rebuked them for and get away with it? Right doctrine drawn directly out of Scripture as the Holy Spirit teaches is still only honored by Heaven and will be so forever (Matthew 24:35)!
Therefore, in the name of Jesus Christ who rebukes you and for the sake of the one faith once and for all given to the saints for which we are to contend (Jude 3-4), I call to repentance whoever calls himself a Christian teacher and exalts his own sinful thinking and opinions above God’s Word no matter how credentialed (Proverbs 30:5-6)! God has called us to doctrinal unity effected by the Holy Spirit in each man as we come humbly to the Word to be taught not teach as a first priority (John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 1:10, 2:12-16; 1 Peter 3:8). The fact we do not have doctrinal unity in professing Christianity does not mean the concept can be relegated to the “worthy idealistic goal but not realistic” category. It is an indicator of sinful failure and wholly coming up short on our part.
Doctrinal diversity in phony loving, worldly tolerance may be a celebrated academic freedom, but it is condemned by the Lord who calls His followers to share in His singular mind. Unless then, the guilty do repent, the Lord will deal with you as He did the corrupt prophets, priests and teachers of Israel’s religious educated elite and as warned by Peter (Jeremiah 8:10-12; Ezekiel 22:23-31; Matthew 23:1-33; 2 Peter 2:2-3). Also, your religious house with beam and pillar of support is soon to be destroyed by the Lord (1 Peter 4:17; Revelation 18:1-8). Then what will become of all your proud, expertly crafted theologies and you as you with all other professing Christians are forced to stand only on God’s Word as it is written and the power of the Holy Spirit to endure at that time?
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