The Arminianist Charismatic: Why Some Abandon Their Faith

[makesends]

Many of the Reformed are clueless to this.

They have never been in these churches or exposed to this kind of teaching.

As you know, it is not sound.

Many follow these teachings because health and wealth sells.

What breaks my heart is how many believe these teachings. Nonetheless, the Lord controls all this.

The positive is that the Lord will save some out of it.

Apologies for getting off topic.

What breaks my heart is God being so badly misrepresented, and his people being so ignorant of the greatness of his majesty, and those who consider him not worth the time of day, because of what they have heard about him.

 

[ElectedbyHim]

What breaks my heart is God being so badly misrepresented, and his people being so ignorant of the greatness of his majesty, and those who consider him not worth the time of day, because of what they have heard about him.

I will agree,

However, most of these people are not regenerate.

The unregenerate hate the Lord as you know.

 

[makesends]

I will agree,

However, most of these people are not regenerate.

The unregenerate hate the Lord as you know.

But God uses means, blinding some so that they will not see. It is not to the credit of false teachers that he uses them for that purpose.

But beyond that, it pains the believer to see his majesty go unnoticed. We should all be in awe and dumbfounded amazement of him. But we are not.


It is also worth mentioning, that what morally should happen, does not, very often. Those who will be in Heaven, overflowing with joy, will nevertheless have works burned, and their very thoughts laid bare. What should have belonged to God, will never be. (And, no, by that, I don't mean that some members (or all) of the Body of Christ, and of the Bride of Christ, will be lacking in any way what God had intended concerning them. She will be altogether without fault or blemish. But not by virtue of the individual.)

 

[Arial]

Many of the Reformed are clueless to this.

They have never been in these churches or exposed to this kind of teaching.

As you know, it is not sound.

Many follow these teachings because health and wealth sells.

What breaks my heart is how many believe these teachings. Nonetheless, the Lord controls all this.

The positive is that the Lord will save some out of it.

Apologies for getting off topic.

You are probably right in saying that many are not aware of the practices and teachings of Charismatics that are false teachings. They are not all false and I firmly believe that there are those who are genuinely saved that are in those churches, but are simply deceived in some areas.

Ironically, in that too, God is glorified as nothing can take them out of his hands. But only a person who understands from the scriptures that it is God period, who saves, who understand the Doctrines of Grace, who would know this, or see this.

But it is those of us who are Reformed in our theology but were not always; who began as Charismatic Arminianists, or had come across it one way or another, who would know just how shaky is the ground they stand on. I would guess most are aware of the extremes, through videos and TV programs, the extreme of the extreme, such as Copeland and his crowd, and may think they are an anomaly---just crazies. And may not actually listen to or hear the depth of the false teaching involved. Such as, "Whatever Jesus did we can do also." "We are little Gods." "Faith (and that wrongly defined) is the conduit between man and God that God must respond to. Faith as a force." Our faith then becomes the mediator between God and man, not Christ. And the thing by which we manipulate God.

 

[Arial]

But God uses means, blinding some so that they will not see. It is not to the credit of false teachers that he uses them for that purpose.

I know this is just wording on your part---but I can't resist. There is no credit to either a false teacher or rightly handling the word of God.

However, even though God is using all of this for his purposes, the false teachers bear the responsibility of leading people astray. If they themselves are genuinely saved, and it is just a matter of ignorance (and not doing the proper homework of rightly handling the word of God) because they themselves have been deceived, they may be building on the proper foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, but with wood, hay, and straw.