There is so much confusion in this world pertaining to religious
beliefs, which can be traced to an ignorance of God’s word or ignoring what
it says. There are more than 600
different denominational churches, all with different and conflicting
doctrines, beliefs, and teachings. Confronted
by so many different conflicting doctrines of religion, people are so
confused; they don’t know what to believe.
The hundreds of different religious denominations all wear different
names, teach different doctrines, practice different forms of worship, have
different plans of salvation, and each has its own earthly headquarters.
How could anyone conclude that scripture authorizes any of this present
confusion or that God is at all pleased by the wholesale abandonment of His
plan as found in the Bible? “For
God is not the author of confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33), but man is.
If the more than 600 different denominational churches were all
teaching and following only God’s word as found only in the Bible then there
would only be one church, the
church
of
Christ
.
Jesus warns us against allowing the
authority of the traditions of men to determine doctrine.
He says, “Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your
tradition…And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men” (Matthew 15:6, 9).
All of the many doctrines that have come from men are vain and useless.
Any doctrine that teaches more or less than what God’s word teaches
in the Bible is false doctrine, which is designed by Satan to cause people to
be eternally lost in Hell. Any
person who is interested in his soul’s salvation can not afford to follow
any of the many false doctrines that are being taught today, but will have a
genuine interest to know the truth which is found only in the Bible.
God’s word warns us to “Beware
of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing” (Matthew
7:15), and “many false prophets have gone out in the world” (1 John 4:1).
There is so much false doctrine being taught today, which many people
blindly accept. On the Day of
Judgment we are going to be judged only by what the Lord says in the Bible and
not what men falsely teach. Jesus
says, “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which
judges him: the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day”
(John 12:48). So, if we or any
other person cannot point to it in the word of God, then please do not believe
it, because there is too much at stake — your
SOUL !!
The Bible warns us “that we should no longer be children, tossed to
and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of
men” (Ephesians 4:14). Man
cannot be pleasing to God and be saved by dreaming up his own plan as to how
God is going to save him. We
must follow God’s plan and only God’s plan if we expect to be saved.
Christ is only “the author of eternal salvation to all who obey
Him” (Hebrews 5:9). If we follow
any of the many plans men have devised we will be eternally lost.
Our salvation in Heaven is too great to lose, because if we don’t go
to Heaven we will spend forever and ever in the torments of a real burning
Hell (Mark 9:43-48). We cannot
afford to be wrong concerning our eternal salvation.