Stay strong in Christ Jesus.
ISMS AND SCHISMS
“When is a Christian Not a Christian”
“When is a church Not The CHURCH
The Sects and Cults of Christendom
by J. C. O’HAIR
II CORINTHIANS 11:13 to 15
“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ. And no marvel; For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is
no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end
shall be according to their works.”
Then we quote
II JOHN 7 to 11
“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we
receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God, He that
abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,
neither bid him God speed:
For he who biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
If we are willing to know the truth about Satan and his religious activities, in the name of
Christ and Christianity, we shall know how to account for many of the Satanic cults which are
flourishing in the land today.
We are aware of the fact that the United States Constitution grants to every individual
and organization the right to any interpretation of the Bible and any practice of religion, as long
as no part of that Constitution is violated. For this all Christians should indeed be grateful.
Again, we are aware that some of the most moral, upright, cultured, benevolent,
philanthropic, gentle, amiable people are found in all of these counterfeit Christian (?)
movements. Perhaps most of them are sincere, and surely every true Christian should be one
hundred percent sincere; but no one is as wrong as is the individual who is sincerely wrong.
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
Proverbs 16:25.
In II Thessalonians 2:9 to 14. there is expressed the difference between the religious
people who are sincerely wrong and those who are truly saved.
II THESSALONIANS 2:9 to 14
“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks always to
God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Whereunto He called you by
our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The devil is so clever that he can cause religious people to continue in an unsaved state,
rejecting the true gospel, even denying that there is a judgment after death, even denying that the
Satan described in the Bible is anything more than a fictitious character. To them he is only a
myth.
During the last forty years many converts have been added to the ranks of “Christian
Science” and the other metaphysical, pantheistic, anti-Christian movements, such as “Unity,”
“New Thought,” “Theosophy” and “Spiritism.” “Christian Science,” the religion of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, is a fast growing movement, carried on with great zeal by aggressive religious men
and women. Presently we shall show that it is unscriptural, unspiritual, unchristian, if not
altogether unscientific. How then account for its progress and prosperity? Read this verse of
Scripture
II PETER 2:1 AND 2
“But there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers
among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought
them and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways:
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
We quote also:
I TIMOTHY 4:7
“But refuse profane and old wives fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.”
And:
I TIMOTHY 4:1
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”
The “Mormons (Latter Day Saints) have sent out from Utah and other states, hundreds of
missionaries to propagate their “Joseph Smith corruption.” If you have talked with these
missionaries, you have found them both subtle and sincere, both diligent and determined. They
sow zealously, energetically, unceasingly, in hope. They have a goal to reach and labour on in
spite of all handicaps, opposition and discouragement.
This is true also concerning “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” who are enthusiastically
disseminating the errors of Judge Rutherford and Pastor Chas. T. Russell, working in great haste,
because the time of Jehovah’s kingdom is very near at hand. We will use the Scriptures to prove
presently that they are giving out religious poison for the soul. They claim to be using more than
sixty radio stations each week in the propagation of their creed and doctrine. Pastor Russell’s
books have been translated into many different languages. There are some splendid, sincere
people among them. But doctrines are, first of all, to be tried by the Inspired Scriptures. No
religious people, who claim to be Christians, should object to the search light of Divine truth.
What is true concerning the zeal of the Mormons and “Rutherfordites,” or “Russellites,”
is equally true of the “Seventh Day Adventists.” They are busy with their false doctrines in both
their oral and printed messages, working overtime to drag God’s redeemed ones under Israel’s
Sabbath, and get them to accept the devil as sin-bearer. This truly is a false and pernicious
doctrine. The Epistle to the Galatians is God’s answer to this hybrid Christian religion, which
has some true Bible doctrine mixed with Mrs. White’s revelations. We shall look into this
presently. But if Adventists really understood Galatians 3:19 they would throw their religion
overboard. But alas! Satan keeps them under the yoke of bondage.
