Dangers in Bible Times

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Dangers in Bible Times

• Deception in Garden (Gen. 31-7 2 Cor. 113)
• Perversion of Sodom (Gen. 19 2 Pet. 27-8 Jude
  7)
• Influence of False Religion (Ex. 321-4 Judg.
  212)
• Rebellion against Gods Pattern (Lev. 101-2
  Num. 16 1 Kgs. 1225-33)

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Dangers in Bible Times

• False Prophets (Jer. 28)
• Human Commandments and Doctrines (Acts 151)
• False Teachers (2 Tim. 217-18)
• Fellowship with Error (Rev. 214-15, 20)

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Avoiding These Dangers

• Hold fast the word of grace (Acts 2032)
• Avoid deception and works of darkness (Eph. 414
  511)
• Understand the will of the Lord respect
  divine pattern (Eph. 515-17)
• Distinguish between truth and error (Heb. 514 1
  Jn. 46)
• Mark and avoid false teachers (Rom. 1617 2 Jn.
  9-11)

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Present Dangers

• MODERNISM
• Genesis 1-11
• Denial of six literal 24-hour consecutive days of
  creation
• Serpent a symbolic motif?
• Flood local, not universal
• What is next?

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• Does it really matter what we believe about
  _________?

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Did it matter

• From what tree Adam and Eve ate?
• Your sexual preference in Sodom?
• What tribe the priests came from?
• Whether Gentiles had to be circumcised to be
  saved?
• If the resurrection was past or future?
• What the Nicolaitans believed?

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• It does matter what we believe about the
  creation, the serpent, the flood
• Ex. 2011
• Mk. 106
• 2 Cor. 113
• Matt.
  2439

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Present Dangers

• WORLDLINESS
• Divorce and Remarriage
• Immodesty
• Dancing
• Drinking Alcohol in Moderation
• Churches promoting social activities

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Present Dangers

• ONGOING, NEVER-ENDING FELLOWSHIP WITH ERROR
• While we learn and grow, we are to teach and be
  longsuffering
• Different nature of issues and questions

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Present Dangers

• ONGOING, NEVER-ENDING FELLOWSHIP WITH ERROR
• Romans 14 allow fellowship in spite of
  contradictory teachings and practices on
  important moral and doctrinal questions?
• Some have found a way ?Unity-in-Diversity