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A Field Guide on False Teaching
2020 by Ligonier Ministries
Published by Ligonier Ministries
421 Ligonier Court, Sanford, FL 32771
Ligonier.org
Printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cushing-Malloy, Inc.
0000520
First edition
ISBN 978-1-64289-268-0 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-64289-269-7 (ePub)
ISBN 978-1-64289-270-3 (Kindle)
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Cover design: Ligonier Creative
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All Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020934593
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With just over 30 percent of the worlds population professing to be Christians as of 2017, Christianity is the largest and most widespread religion in the world. While many professing Christians have an accurate understanding of the theology of Scripture, not all professing Christians understand the core biblical doctrines of the faith as summarized in the classic Christian creeds and confessions, and many of those who claim to follow Jesus hold beliefs that deny biblical teaching. Moreover, Christians must interact daily with people at work and in their communities who make no Christian profession and perhaps even challenge the Bibles teaching.
False teachingboth inside and outside the churchhas always been proclaimed against the truth of Scripture. It is therefore essential that believers be well versed in the biblical doctrines of revelation, God, man, sin, Christ, atonement, salvation, and eternity. Believers should also seek to be conversant with the essential features of false teaching, religions, and worldviews so that they can recognize error and refute it for the sake of the gospel. To that end, this work is an introduction to current false teachings in the church and false religions in the world. It is not an exhaustive survey, but rather it seeks to point out many of the false teachings in our day. It is our sincere desire that this booklet will help you be better prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15).
Although everything God reveals in the Scriptures may be considered essential to the life of the church, some biblical doctrines are more important to the system of Christian truth than others. When considering false teaching and religions, the following biblical doctrines are vital to maintaining Christianity as it was given to us by Jesus and the Apostles.
Theologians refer to Gods revelation of Himself in creation and the human conscience as general revelation and to His revelation in Scripture as special revelation. General revelation discloses Gods eternal power and divine nature as well as His basic moral law for humanity (Ps. 19:16; Rom. 1:182:16). Special revelation gives us Gods fuller revelation of His character, His plan of salvation for mankind, and His instructions for living lives that please Him (Ps. 19:711; 2 Tim. 3:1617). The Old and New Testaments are the full and final special revelation of God. With the sixty-six books of the Bible, God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). The Scriptures are infallible and inerrant. All that God has revealed in His Word is authoritative, sufficient, clear, and necessary for the salvation of believers, the lives of Christians, and the ministry of the church. The central message of Scripture is Gods salvation in the person and work of Christ (Luke 24:27, 44). There is no other special revelation from God after the close of the canon of Scripture.
The starting place of all truth is the holy God Himself. When we look into Scripture, we discover that the one true and living God is infinite (1 Kings 8:27; Ps. 147:5), eternal (Ps. 90:1; Isa. 57:15), and unchangeable (Mal. 3:6) in all His divine perfections (Ex. 34:6; Num. 14:18; Neh. 9:31; Ps. 86:5, 15; Joel 2:13). Within the one Godhead there subsist three personsFather, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three persons are the one true and living God. The Father, Son, and Spirit are the same in substance and equal in power and glory. God is the Holy Trinity.
At creation, God made humanity male and female, in His own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness (Gen. 1:2627; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10). God commissioned men and women to fill the earth and have dominion over it (Gen. 1:28). He entered into a covenant of works with Adam at creation, forbidding him to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, promising life upon obedience and death upon disobedience (Gen. 2:1517; Rom. 5:1221). This prohibition to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was meant both to test Adams obedience and to remind him that God is the Creator and man the creature.
When Adam disobeyed God and ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he fell from the condition in which God originally made him. By his disobedience, Adam brought sin and death into the world. Adam stood as the representative of all his descendants, so that everyone who descends from him by natural generation sinned in him and fell with him (Rom. 5:1221; 1 Cor. 15:22). Adams natural-born descendants have had his guilt imputed to them, have been deprived of the original righteousness that Adam possessed, and have had the corruption of his nature passed on to them. By nature, all people (except Christ) are dead in... trespasses and sins and under the wrath and curse of God (Eph. 2:13). Actual sins that we commit proceed from the corruption of our nature and are transgressions of the law of God or failures to keep His law. As the Apostle John wrote, Sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4).
The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God and second person of the Trinity, became incarnate in the fullness of time, adding a human nature to Himself and thus uniting Himself to our humanity. Jesus is truly God and truly man in one person forever. Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man. He lived a sinless life in order to fulfill the demands of the law of God (Rom. 5:1221; Gal. 4:34), and He laid down His life as an atoning sacrifice for His sheep (John 10:15). In His death, Jesus propitiatedsatisfied and turned awaythe wrath of God by taking the punishment for the sins of His people. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day. He ascended to heaven, where He is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high (Heb. 1:3). Jesus will come again in glory to consummate all things and judge the living and the dead. His rule as King of the kingdom of God will never end.
Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone. God chose a people for Himself in His Son before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:34). The Son lived and died to atone for the sins of those whom God has chosen (John 10:29). The salvation that Christ accomplished by His death and resurrection is applied to His people by the Holy Spirit of God, the third person of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit regenerates those for whom Christ died, bringing them from death to life (John 3:5). All those who are born again by the Spirit of God come to trust in Christ and are united to Him by faith alone. When a sinner is united to Christ by faith, he is justified, set apart, and adopted as a child of God. Everyone who is united to Christ will be glorified when he dies or when Christ comes again on the last day.
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