#Damnable
#Pernicious
Damnable: Subject to or worthy of divine
condemnation. (OED)
Pernicious: having
a very harmful effect on somebody or something, especially in a way that is
gradual and not easily noticed. (OED).
Both words occur once only; they are
translated from the same word apÅleia. They are the two sides of the same fence
put up by false teachers, i.e. the false doctrines.
What has bewitched many of God's children
such that they choose to be indifferent to sound doctrines or speak
disparagingly against them? I suspect the sound doctrines either expose their
popular errors or tax their mentally lazy minds; I may be wrong. Maybe, they
have been justly put off by doctrinaires who are ungodly, and unjustifiably
conclude, "what's the use of sound
doctrines, just look at those ungodly doctrinaires!"
The serious nature of false doctrines should
deserve the careful study and vigilant attention of God's children unto the
sound doctrines.
2 Peter 2 KJB
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 heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring
upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their #pernicious
ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Listen, teachers of falsehood don't come with
horns and pitchforks. They are usually lovable and nice people, but cunning
and subtle; they are smart at "good words and fair speeches."
Romans 16: KJT
18 For they that are such
serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and
fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Ephesians 4 KJT
14 That we henceforth be no
more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of
doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in
wait to deceive.
If you are not grounded in the doctrines of
the gospel of Christ, you will soon be following the pernicious ways of the
teachers of falsehood.
2 Timothy 2 KJV
3 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;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
1 Timothy 4:1 KJT
Now the Spirit speaketh
expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
God's children turning from sound doctrines
to FABLES and DOCTRINES OF DEVILS is no fiction but harsh reality.
