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From Here to Forever
of men. And by rejection of the truth because it involves a cross,
Protestants are following the same path. All who study convenience
and policy, that they may not be at variance with the world, will be
left to receive “damnable heresy” for truth.
2 Peter 2:1
. He who
looks with horror upon one deception will readily receive another.
“For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believe not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12
.
Dangerous Errors
Among the most successful agencies of the great deceiver are
the lying wonders of spiritualism. As men reject the truth they fall a
prey to deception.
Another error is the doctrine that denies the deity of Christ,
claiming that He had no existence before His advent to this world.
This theory contradicts the statements of our Saviour concerning His
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relationship with the Father and His pre-existence. It undermines
faith in the Bible as a revelation from God. If men reject the testi-
mony of Scripture concerning the deity of Christ, it is vain to argue
with them; no argument, however conclusive, could convince them.
None who hold this error can have a true conception of Christ or of
the plan of God for man’s redemption.
Still another error is the belief that Satan has no existence as a
personal being, that the name is used in Scripture merely to represent
men’s evil thoughts and desires.
The teaching that the second advent of Christ is His coming to
each individual at death is a device to divert minds from His personal
coming in the clouds of heaven. Satan has thus been saying, “Behold,
he is in the secret chambers” (see
Matthew 24:23-26
), and many
have been lost by accepting this deception.
Again men of science claim that there can be no real answer to
prayer; this would be a violation of law—a miracle, and miracles
have no existence. The universe, say they, is governed by fixed laws,
and God Himself does nothing contrary to these laws. Thus they
represent God as bound by His own laws—as if divine laws could
exclude divine freedom.