Friday, November 30, 2012

HERETIC or DIVISIVE?


I have also found several big websites on the internet that now list King James Bible Onlyism under their section titled "Heresies". In today's messed up and apostate world the every day Bible believing Christian is labeled DIVISIVE simply because he or she insists that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way of salvation from sin, death and hell, and will not go along with the rest of the group that tells us there are many ways to God, be it New Age, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Islam religion or whatever. Funny how things get turned upside down, isn't it?

Let's look at all the verses where variants of the same Greek (and English) word are used and see if heretic or divisive fits better:

Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call divisive, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

With the context being what Paul BELIEVED, heresy fits much better than divisive.

1 Cor 11:18-19 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Being that "divisions" occurs in verse 18, and is from a different Greek word than "heresies" in verse 19, heresies makes much more sense in verse 19.

Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, divisions, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

With variance, strife, and seditions already mentioned in this passage, divisions would've been a bit redundant.

2 Pet 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable divisions, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

With the context being FALSE PROPHETS and FALSE TEACHERS, heresies makes a lot more sense than divisions.

The same Greek word is also translated five times in Acts as "sect", which goes alone with heresy much better than with division.

Titus 3:10 A man that is divisive after the first and second admonition reject;

Since Jesus, and other orthodox men, can be very divisive, but Jesus is certainly not a heretick to be rejected, divisive does not fit here. Heretick does.

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