I really do not know if I am putting this out for discussion or as a statement of fact. This is of deep concern to me and it should concern all those other members of the church. I am not talking about the Catholic Church, the Baptist Church, the Mormon church I am talking about the church as the body of believers in Christ.
The Scriptures themselves tell us that eventually men will pull away from the true meaning of the Scriptures in order to glorify his own flesh. This does not mean that man will rebel against the Scriptures in an open and obvious manner. What it is talking about is man warping the Scriptures into something they are not, so that man may be pleased with himself and find it easier to live in the flesh, not having to concern himself with the way God intended them to live. I was reminded of this in some recent threads on Biblediscussion.org, where the doctrine of dispensationalism was warped into replacement theology. And in doing so using the separation between Israel and the old law, and the Gentiles in the age of Grace to make a statement that the Gentiles longer have to worry about keeping the moral law, the 10 Commandments, because Christ said, "It is finished" while he was on the cross.
See what he has done is to start off by referring to something that nobody can deny, even Christ referred to the different ages. After that however the definition of the ages becomes totally warped from the Bible teachings. And once the poster has convinced the reader that God has cast his chosen people the Jews aside, then the move is made to convince the reader that God has also cast the moral law aside. And this is aided by the fact that the New Testament does set aside the laws concerning Jewish religious ceremony. Now before anybody jumps on me I want to make it clear that I understand that there are still religious sacraments which we are required to participate in, but these are specifically enumerated in the New Testament.
And that brings up another point, we are not only talking about using dispensationalism to warp the Scriptures, but even using sacraments such as Lord's supper and baptism to mislead the meaning of the Scriptures and turn the Scriptures into, what Paul called, another gospel. Another thing to be aware of is those people who preach that Paul preached a different gospel to the Gentiles and the Gospel that Christ preached to the Jews. Whenever you run across somebody that tells you this remind the person that even though Paul's assignment was to preach to the Gentiles he did in fact preached that same gospel to his fellow Jews. There is only one gospel for Jews, Gentiles, slaves, or free men.
These false Gospels have been coming to the church in many forms, be it the teachings of works, not recognizing the deity of Christ, or separating the Gentiles from the promise of Abraham. And use your common sense when evaluating these faults teachers. Does it make sense to you that if the total law including the 10 Commandments no longer is to be obeyed? Then would that not mean that there is no sin and there is no reason to repent? Without the law and the sin that it encompasses, what can the Holy Ghost use to convict you of your sins so that you will repent and ask for forgiveness?
The Bible is not meant to be secretive in it's meaning.
