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Far-Off Views in the Church, Part 1 (TMF:2576)

Monday, March 24, 2025
Peace to Live By: Far-Off Views in the Church, Part 1 (TMF:2576) - Daniel Litton
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       A popular form of false beliefs that Satan used on the early church is what we have come to call Gnosticism. This is the fully developed form of what was being discussed in the opening of the message today. Basically, there were people during the time of the Apostle Paul and the Apostle John (for it seems John also confronted the beliefs head on in his epistle of 1 John), who were cultivating these ideas and making their influence. The beliefs were a mix of what Paul was saying, along with some older Jewish beliefs and even some secular (or pagan) ideas. It was a blend that led to wrong conclusions, which led to wrong behaviors. And the idea was that everything physical was evil while everything spiritual was good. Sounds bizarre to us probably in our day and age. Though, at times, it seems like some Christians are even promoting such a type of a belief system—that the world God created is so corrupted that all is evil. We have to be careful with that.