A Programmed man as described by Voltair:
"Madness is to argue from an erroneous perception (or, position), but with a perfect reasonings"
Your Spiritual life will be revolutionized and be more effectively used and be positively channel to help others ; if your right believing are based on God's Word and not on men's doctrines and traditional beliefs passed on down through the centuries.
If Satan cannot get you to believed in outright lies, he will get you into believing and teaching others half-truth; or even, lies coated as "truth"
One good example of lies costed as "Truth" are the doctrines of "The End Times & The three possibilities of interpreting the teachings on Tribulation theories in the Second Coming of Christ"
There are no basis and actual specific contextual teachings on these men's Theories but only from their own conjectures by mixing events and verses strung together in Scriptures to come up with their own individual specific theory"
Paul specifically warned us against doing that in his later days of his ministry.
All these men's theories does were not only unscriptural, fables and speculations but they also aroused suspense & suspcion, fears, anxiety and confusion.
Their paradigm and foundation of Christ's Second Coming were flawed as they were blinded by their own ambition to leads God's people and others as their followers instead of leading people to be Christ's follower.
These teaching and those responsible for propagating them are no different from the Jewish Nation still awaiting for the Messiah to come for the First Coming; while, the present "End Times" believers are now awaiting for Christ's Second Coming; does not knows from Scriptures that He has already come .
My thought today is not to tell you what Scriptures has revealed and the events that were so clearly played out in History but to awaken you to your false paradigms and foundation of your erroneous teachings ; which is the vast majority in Christendom . This I am afraid to says is the sad truth of the present day's churches' situations. It is so sad indeed.
I hope my sharing will alert some to wake up and starts searching the truth in Scriptures and with The Holy Spirit as your Teacher be set free from the bondage of men's teachings and doctrines.
Ponder on these thing my brethren!
May the Lord by His Spirit causes your all who are sincere and true worshippers to see! Amen!
P.S. These are not the exact thoughts I have this morning but I believed the gist of it are all there. So, be bless! Shalom!