Are You Giving Support to Error?

by Bill Hall

``I don't believe a lot of the things my church teaches.'' These are the words that we are hearing quite frequently these days. People are startled when they pick  up their Sunday School literature and read words that are communistic. Modernism and unbelief are permeating the churches of the land. Political and social questions are the theme of the sermons, rather than book, chapter, and verse theme of past days. Most of the religious people of our city just have too much conviction to accept such foolishness.

People, too, are questioning the old doctrinal beliefs of their churches.  No longer will intelligent people swallow some doctrine just because their preacher teaches it, or their creed, written by their church hierarchy, endorses it. The Catholics are furnishing a concrete example of this independence in thinking in their dispute over birth control. In other churches such doctrines as ``once saved always saved,'' ``Salvation by faith only,'' ``what is to be will be'' are being questioned by their independently thinking members. All efforts to quell this search for truth will fail. Americans are simply a people who demand the right to think for themselves.

We are amazed, however, at the fact that these people who admit they don't believe what their church teaches are giving no consideration to making a change. They continue right on giving their encouragement and financial support to that which they admit to be error and in some instances modernistic and communistic. How can reasonable, intelligent people lend their moral and financial support to that which they admit is contrary to God's will? Is this the basis on which they admit is contrary to God's will? Is this the basis on which they want to stand when they are called before the judgment seat of Christ?

Nor does this problem exist only in the denominational world. Among members of the church, I find people who ``don't go along'' with some of the trends and innovations that the congregation of which they are a part engages in. They don't go along in word, possibly, but they go right along with giving their financial support to the programs of that congregation. They give no consideration to making a change, for they cannot tolerate the thought of being termed an ``anti.'' We fear that ``they love the praise of men more than the praise of God.''

Are you concerned with what the Bible teaches on the matter? ``And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them'' (Eph. 5:11) -- ``If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed: for he that biddeth Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds'' (2 Jn. 10-11). ``Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them'' (Rom. 16:17).

We urge our readers to cease their support of error and to learn the truth and obey it. That truth is to be found in the Bible, the word of God. ``Search the Scripture!''

 

 

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Competition for the Mind
The Importance of Good Judgment
 

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