The Bible tells us ...
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" II Timothy 4:3
Today, there is no shortage of teachers! Turn on your computer, and with a few clicks of your mouse you have thousands of teachers competing to scratch your itching ears with text, videos, and audio.
The Internet is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it offers us an unprecedented opportunity to publish the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to equip Christians, and to touch the lives of millions of people in far-away places. On the other hand, it can be a curse since there are thousands of false teachers out there using the tool for their own selfish promotion.
This poses a difficult problem for Bible-based pastors and teachers. Curious and searching Christians are going out on the Internet for their theology instead of the God-ordained local church, and hundreds of thousands are being corrupted by what they find.
Never have we seen so many fanciful, modernist doctrines invading the "old time religion." Christians' lives and relationships are trashed by these heresies, and whole churches are subverted by people who pull some strange teaching off the Internet and begin propagating it to their brothers and sisters in Christ. Like a malignant tumor, the disease festers and grows, destroying men's and women's walks with God and pulling apart brothers and sisters.
It seems that everyone wants to discover something new. They want something to set them apart, so they can say "look what I found! Aren't I special?" They depart from the "doctrine of the apostles" to embark on a self-centered journey through false doctrine and heresy, often never returning to their "first love."
God instructed Jeremiah to tell the people of Judah to "ask for the old paths," instead of adhering to the new, modern ways. He is telling people the same thing today, but they, like the compromised men and women of Judah during Jeremiah's time, are responding with a resounding "we will not!"
This site was spawned by the heartache of seeing Christians I love being swallowed up by bizarre, fanciful teachings -- mostly things picked up on the Internet. A wonderful and grand potential to serve God in powerful ways and to impact many people positively for Christ was swept away as these dear saints were neutralized by the enemy. The ministries God was building around them crumbled, and the enemy rejoiced.
Most of these non-biblical doctrines can be rejected out-of-hand with just a little basic Bible study, but sadly most people who leave the narrow path and step onto that wide road won't listen to plain Bible after they have made up their mind about the matter. It becomes about what they feel, instead of about what the Bible plainly says.
Pastor, if you have had someone leave your church because of some strange heresy they picked up, you know the piercing, deep, unquenchable sadness that is felt. It's like losing a child. If you have seen some young, growing, burgeoning Christian sidelined by a foolish false doctrine, you know the disappointment and grief that is felt.
Most Pastors are already so busy that they don't have time to chase every little false teaching that crops up. When you're dealing with a number of issues already -- families that are hurting, people who have lost loved ones, people who are having their kids taken away by the state, people who are losing their homes, people who are fighting addictions and other sin -- it seems a poor use of time to sit for hours studying out how to refute some weird teaching that somebody picked up in the Internet.
This little project is my small attempt to strike back against the enemy. It's time to debunk some of the satanic teachings that are consuming immature Christians day-in and day-out, and to present them in a quick, easy-to-understand format that fellow Pastors can read and grasp in minutes. I pray to God that this work will save at least one person from the misery and heartache of the modernist path by restoring them to the old, Bible ways.
