Theological Heresy is a DOCTRINE : How does it operate?

[Behold]

Reader....

Regarding a Theological HERESY... as related to the BIBLE and Christianity..... we find...

1.) Heresy does not usually remove the verses, it usually adds to them a man made teaching, which creates the heresy.

Most of the time.......Heresies are created by twisting only a few bible verses..

How does this deceive the deceived??

They BELIEVE the twist, that has been placed on the verse, and that becomes how they SEE IT, and that just evolves... because the heretic who wrote it, will have an entire Theology of it, and the deceive one... will become capture by it all, eventually.

Now why do they believe it, when they didnt believe it 5 mins earlier?

1.) They read it, or someone is teaching them and they were not already of sufficient understanding of Paul'sTheology, that would have told them instantly......"that is a pack of lies".. "all that is false".

2.) Heresies are of the Devil, and they have supernatural power to deceive.... which means they have the power of deception.
They are empowered by the "father of Lies", and his power is the power to "spellbind" you, which the NT refers to as "mind blinded".
That means your mind is blinded so that you now believe what isn't true.
A "doctrine of Devils" is a man made Theology, that is empowered by demonic power. It has the power to cast a spell on your mind, so that its LIES, becomes your Truth.
This is : Deception.

So, lets take Calvinism and the 5-points... and I'l show you how a certain aspect of this demonic teaching, changes how the verses in the bible are perceived by you, once this false theology, owns your mind.

2.) For example, if i was a Hyper-Calvinist....then everytime i read the NT< and i saw these words....and phrases.

"Whosover"
"The World"
"All that Call"
"As many as"
"ALL That will"
"ALL"
"Each"
"for as many"

Then if i was a deceived Calvinist or "5 pointer", then my mind would twist the verses, into:

"only the elect"..
"only the pre-chosen"..
"only the Predestined"...

.= Every time i read......."whosoever"... "as many as"... "ALL that will"... "The World".... "each", "for as many".. "ALL".

This mental situation that has been caused by a "doctrine of devils".., is what the bible refers to as the "Bewitching power" of a doctrine of Devils, that is always created by a MAN...

Paul teaches this as "WHO.. has Bewitched you, so that you no longer obey the Truth"..

And all false religions, and heresies related to Christian Theology, are MAN MADE... .always.

 

[civic]

Deception is one of those things where the one being deceived has no idea that have been and think they have the truth. That's the scary part about being deceived. Whether it's outside of orthodox Christian beliefs or within it the deception is the same. In both cases they believe they have the truth and those who disagree are the ones being deceived. Only God/Christ can open the eyes and heart of a person so that they might question their beliefs and seek the truth. That takes humility but the problem is there is pride which holds onto the deceiving doctrinal belief. It's like a catch 22.

 

[Behold]

Deception is one of those things where the one being deceived has no idea that have been and think they have the truth.

Christianity is all spiritual.
Deception is the same..... As how can a lie, deceive, unless there is an underpinning power?

"Who has bewitched you".......... its the power of the lie.....and Satan is the Father of it.

"who has bewitched you".. so that you no longer OBEY>. the TRUTH"..

So, the person has been captured, mentally, by the power of a lie, and now they can't obey or see or understand, the truth.

Calvinists cannot understand that Jesus died for the World of Sinners, "Christ came to save sinners"... so, they cant SEE that this denies... "only the elect".. "only the pre chosen"....

BECAUSE :

""ALL have sinned"....(not just the elect)......., and "Jesus came into the world to save Sinners'".. and that is ALL of us, not just the "elect".

The Calvinist, the TulipHead, cant SEE THIS, even tho a 3 yr old can understand it, and that is because they are blinded, by a spell binding power, that is to be "bewitched".

That's the scary part about being deceived. Whether it's outside of orthodox Christian beliefs or within it the deception is the same. In both cases they believe they have the truth and those who disagree are the ones being deceived.

Absolutely.

Only God/Christ can open the eyes and heart of a person so that they might question their beliefs and seek the truth.

Yes, the same Holy Spirit that reveals that Jesus is our forgiveness, our Savior, is the revealer of Truth.

So, how does the Holy Spirit reveal that Jesus is given for the sin of the world, when Hyper-Calvinists believe He is not?

That's a hard one to overcome.

That takes humility but the problem is there is pride which holds onto the deceiving doctrinal belief. It's like a catch 22.

Calvinism and TULIP>. the heart of this doctrine is PRIDE.

See, its pride that proclaims....>>"you are not one of us".. "we are the ELECT"... "we are the pre-chosen".. we are better then you, as Calvin and TULIP taught us that we are EXCLUSIVE>..

And that is how a CULT always drags you in.

"We are different' "WE alone have the Truth"... "we are the chosen"...

Thats a mormon.

Thats a catholic.

Thats a calvinist.

Its a pride thing, to be the "ONLY ONE" or the "ONLY CHOSEN"..

So, PRIDE is a part of Deception.......in the case of Theological Cult, deception.

A Catholic will tell you all day and all night that THEY are the Church.

A Calvinist is saying the same thing..

 

[Pancho Frijoles]

Reader....

Regarding a Theological HERESY... as related to the BIBLE and Christianity..... we find...

Thanks for your post
While interesting, I would like to stress the most important aspect of heresy, which you have not mentioned.
Heresies are a bad thing because they are associated with a sinful, wicked life.
This is what the apostles were really interested in, when facing a heresy.

Just go through the epistles and see how much ink and time the authors spent refuting heresies theologically, and how much ink and time they spent exhibiting the false teachers as immoral, perverse men.
I can tell you that they spend 90% of their ink and time on the moral consequences.

This is in sharp contrast with the emphasis placed in this Forum
Here, we fancy theology so much, so much, so much... that we see heresies everywhere. Once we detect a theological error, we fight it as if we were defending God and fighting evil.

My thesis, that I am willing to defend in this thread, is that theological error does NOT necessarily equal heresy. Indeed, most theological errors debated in this Forum do NOT equal heresy.

Heresy comes from the Greek term hairesis, "choice" and refers to people who took wrong choices, departing from the Way of Living that Jesus Christ taught. To justify these wrong choices of living, they appealed to their theories.
People who want to keep committing sins, try to justify their sinful behavior in different ways. Primitive minds just try to avoid all rationale. More sophisticated minds create a theoretical framework. In the end, it is all about the wish to continue doing the works of darkness.

 

[Behold]

Heresies are a bad thing because they are associated with a sinful, wicked life.
This is what the apostles were really interested in, when facing a heresy.

People who do not understand the Salvation that is found In Christ, always want to talk about SIN.

And the born again, are "made free from sin" , having become the Righteousness of God, in Christ".

So, when a person is "sin conscious", and Law and Commandments, obsessed... they will want to talk about it..

Whereas, when a person understands who they are in Christ, then they are not sin conscious, and they dont think about it, and its never a concern.
Its only those who are concerned about sin, who dont understand The Cross, who are always on forums, needing to talk about sin, sin, sin.