Sects and false doctrines

Today there are many pseudo-Christian groups that disrupt and alter the biblical doctrines, diverting their attention lender and follows them: the most known are the Mormons, i Jehovah's Witnesses, the so-called “Christian Science“, “the international Via“, etc. All claim to have received special revelations and privilege to be able to interpret the Bible infallibly. Naturally, They do not want to be defined “sect” O “pseudo-Christian group”.

It is a religious organization that includes the Bible in his “scripture”, yet that distorts the biblical doctrines so as to obscure and frustrate the message of salvation that the Bible proclaims. The pseudo-Christian groups are generally wrong on one or more of these essential doctrines:

Each sect add other things to the work of salvation that Jesus accomplished on the cross. Some of these groups claim to “integrate” the Bible with other works that they feel equally inspired or essential to “correct understanding” dellin Bible. The Mormonism adds “the Book of Mormon“, “the Doctrine and Covenants“, e “The Pearl of Great Price“. The “Christian Science” you added “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures“. The Roman Catholicism He has added the tradition and the apocryphal books (deuterocanonici). Jehovah's Witnesses, instead, even alter the same Bible translating the words so as to make it say what they want to tell.

Religious groups pseudo-Christians, the work that Jesus accomplished once for all by dying on the cross and resurrected for our salvation, add the importance “essential” of own works of justice, maybe those particular “works” established by the group, or association mandatory to their organization. They often say one thing but believe another. They say he must prove himself worthy and that they must do their best to please God, have struggled, to be worthy of Him. All of this, But, It is absolutely wrong. The Bible says we are saved by grace and not by works: “For ye are saved by grace, by fede, and that not of yourselves:, it is the gift of God, not by works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8,9).In fact, if we could do something for our salvation, something that could merit alone, Christ would have died in vain: “knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, no flesh will be justified by the law” (Ga. 2:16).

The pseudo-Christian groups often cite Giacomo 2:26 where it is written that faith without works is dead. Of course this is right: if indeed you have faith, This will result in corresponding works. Say you have faith, and not bear fruit, It means having a dead faith. This is what speaks Giacomo, but he is not saying be our works to save us, or that they should be combined with the work completed by Christ. Giacomo means that if we say we have faith, then this faith will not save us. But if we have genuine faith in Christ's finished, this work will have the power to change us and to produce works in us, to the glory of God: “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, our Lord” (Ro. 5:1).

Note also how it is not faith alone to save us, but a faith that has as its object the appropriate person, Jesus. Not enough to have faith in anything to be saved. It is important to have faith in the true Jesus. In fact, if you have great faith but it supports a false Christ, Also this faith is useless.

in Mormonism, eg, Jesus is considered the brother of Satan generated through sexual intercourse with a god came from another planet! To Jehovah's Witnesses Jesus… Michael the archangel who became man. In the New Age Movement, Jesus is a man in tune with the divine consciousness: is the Maitreya of Buddhism, the last and largest of the Avatar, which he descended on “cosmic Christ”… Which of these views is true? The only real Jesus found in the Bible, the only one that receives our prayers (1 Co. 1:1,2 with to. 13:9; At. 7:55-60), that is worshiped (Mt. 2:2,11; 14:33; 28:9; Teacher. 9:35-38; Eb. 1:8), and it is called God (Teacher. 20:28; Cl. 2:9).

The Jesus of the Cults is not someone you can pray, worship, or call God. Given then that the Jesus of the Bible is the only one who can reveal God the Father (Read. 10:22) much to get to this eternal life (Teacher. 17:3), then it is necessary that you have the real Jesus. He pleaded “Street, the truth and the life“, outside of which no one can go to the Father (Teacher. 14:6).

Another common denominator among the pseudo-Christian groups is their method to distort the Scriptures. Some of the errors they commit in interpreting Scripture, I'm:

1) taking biblical texts out of context;

2) Scripture reading in the information that there are no;

3) change back and forth only those texts of Scripture that make them more comfortable;

4) ignore other teachings of Scripture;

5) giving wrong definitions of words and biblical concepts;

6) translate incorrectly text.

These are just some of the ways in which the pseudo-Christian groups misusing the Scriptures. If you want to effectively give Christian witness to a person involved in a pseudo-Christian group, We first need to understand very well the sound doctrine of the Word of God. It is therefore essential to have a good personal equipment, know God, study the Bible, learn what it says about the Creation, man, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Salvation, as well as the three essential doctrines of Christianity. A Christian should know well his own doctrine in order to be able to recognize not only what is true, but also what is false in a religious system (1 Pi. 3:15; 2 Ti. 2:15).

It was Jesus himself who warned us that in the last days would be false Christs and false prophets arose who would deceive many (Mt. 24:24). The Lord knew that there would be a resurgence of the spirit of Antichrist (1 Teacher. 4:1-3) in recent days.