What The Bible Says About A Godly Attitude Toward Heresy

 This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth New Hampshire 03801.      (603) 436-7736


What The Bible Says About A Godly Attitude Toward Heresy

G. Archer Weniger

        In these of theological confusion and ecclesiastical compromise, what is the biblical position for a fundamentalist, Bible-believing Christian to assume toward heretics and false religious teachers? Are we to patronize them, associate with them, accept their sponsorship, increase their numbers, send them converts, add to their prestige, follow their leadership, identify our churches with them and obliterate important biblical truth and definitions with them? The Bible answer is clear. 

1 Try Them
        1 John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."

2 Mark Them
        Romans 16:17 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them."

3 Rebuke Them
        Titus 1:13 "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith."

4 Have No Fellowship
        Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."

5 Withdraw Thyself
        2 Timothy 3:6 "Now we command you brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received us."

6 Receive Them Not
        2 John 10-11 "IF there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not onto your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds."

7 Have No Company With Him
        2 Thessalonians 3:14 "And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with hiim, that he may be ashamed."

8 Reject Them
        Titus 3:10 "A man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject."

9 Be Ye Separate
        2 Corinthians 6:17 "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."


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