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| "How the Church has fallen away from truth?" continued NOTE: in this continuation of Bible answers to the question, "How has the church fallen away from truth", hopefully you are beginning to see that, according to the Bible, it is more than falling away from truth; for as II Timothy 4:3,4 alone make it clear, it is falling away from also: (1) sound doctrine; (2) away from Christ driven and Spirit driven motivations, now purpose driven by wants and personal desires; (3) away from ministers, evangelists, and teachers of sound doctrine into the "itching ears" kind. In short away from the ALL Scripture and Bread and Bible balanced life approaches, in favor of the contemporary false prophets and savage wolve pastors that have become extremely selective on what few Scriptures you hear from them. Never forget, that a false prophet, by the very nature of a false prophet, has to be popular; and you churches are the safest that have unknown pastors except in heaven and in the hearts of a few! {Below is the continuation and conclusion of "How the Church has fallen away from truth?" question.} 15-6: Depending on how serious you are to know Bible truth on the HOW, the how of how have the local churches and denominations fallen away, the how of how are churches and denominations increasingly falling away as we approach the END, then you will want to do further Bible study in Jeremiah, the book of the Falling Away in the Old Testament and in Hebrews, the book of the Falling Away in the New Testament. In those two books, you will see step by step over a period of more than 40-80 years, how the people of God developed “an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God” (Hebrews 3:12). 1. The “how” of the Falling away in Jeremiah. “For My people have committed two evils: they {there is that THEY again} have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13) NOTE: A little sarcasm would say if you still struggle with the HOW, is what part of THEY do you not understand? Seriously however, it is so subtly the way time, our own sinful spirits “that lusteth to envy” (James 4:5), and the influences of the world and Satan wear down God’s people to increasingly drift away from God and the fountain of living waters, to broken cisterns of salvation will can not hold water, the two dead gods most obvious today are “cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches”. How quickly the individual brain can create a god not the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. A POSITIVE STEP: If you have not completed the “Bible Studies in Jeremiah” on this web site, you should. 2. The “how” of the Falling away in Hebrews. {By far the book of Hebrews is the definitive book on the HOW of the falling away.} “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called ‘Today’, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” (Hebrews 3: 12,13) Exhortation is a preventive measure against the falling away; what better exhortation than the Word of God in the NT book on the how and cure for the falling away, the book of Hebrews; and by using the SUBMIT form below, you can order by e-mail a free copy of the commentary CHRIST, PAUL, AND THE FALLING AWAY. 15-7: Accept an apology for such a long answer, but the Falling Away is the number one problem today for Christians in the whole world, churches and denominations; and once the reality of it is faced, the next step is the question of HOW for which we can thank a surfer of this web site; and recognizing the HOW, we can then proceed into the Bible cures, both corrective and preventative, daily exhortation. 1. Exhortation by way of a balanced life of Bible and Bread. 2. Exhortation by way of the ALL Scripture approach of thru the Bible in 3 years. Short NOTE: You may want to also read about the "ALL Scripture Movement and Approach". Final NOTE: If this does not fully answer your question, or if you have thought of other questions; or want to dialog, you are welcome to use the SUBMIT form below. As Christians and fellow laborers in the vineyard of the kingdom of Christ, we just can not think about and discuss this major issue too much! To think about it and discuss it is to think about and discuss Bible; for of the 10 major doctrines of the Bible, the Falling Away is number 9. {See the 10 major doctrines of the Bible in SOME SOUNDS OF SOUND FAITH.} Also you are welcome to download a free copy in PDF of this Bible answer to a critical Bible question, "How the church has fallen away from truth?". It will be the complete answer, and it includes the footnotes. Don't forget, as with all PDF downloads on this site, you will need Adobe Reader or the equivalent on your computer, which is also free from www.adobe.com . |