Ellen Gould White
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Ellen Gould White über: "What does Ellen White say about deceivers in the congregation who twist Scripture and are resistant to instruction?"
Answer
Ellen White warns emphatically about teachers in the congregation who twist the Holy Scripture by pulling texts out of their context to support false theories. These individuals tend to reject evidence and rebuke, as a prolonged resistance to truth hardens the heart and places them under the control of false spirits. Instead of humility, they often display pride and an unteachability that leads them to undermine sound biblical foundations.
The Perversion of God's Word through Misapplication
»In the effort to maintain erroneous doctrines or unchristian practices, some resort to passages that are taken out of context, perhaps quoting half a verse to prove their point, while the remaining part would show that the meaning is exactly the opposite. With the cunning of the serpent they hide behind disjointed statements that are interpreted so as to suit their fleshly desires. Thus many deliberately pervert the word of God.«
Hardening and Resistance to Divine Admonition
»A prolonged resistance to truth will harden the most receptive heart. Those who reject the spirit of truth place themselves under the control of a spirit that opposes the word and work of God. For a time they may continue to teach some phases of truth, but their refusal to accept all the light that God sends will eventually bring them to a place where they perform the work of a false guardian.«
The Pride of Unteachable Teachers
»There is a need for Brother Ballenger to humble his soul before God and to refuse to accept new interpretations of the Holy Scripture. We have had to encounter many men who came with exactly such interpretations to establish false theories and to unsettle the spirit of many through their eloquence and their great array of texts that they misapplied to fit their own ideas.«
Warning about Those Who Shake the Old
»There will always be those who seek something new and stretch and bend the word of God so that it supports their ideas and theories. Let us, brothers, seize the things that God has given us and of which His Spirit has taught us that they are truth, and believe them, while we leave alone those theories that the Spirit of God has not confirmed.«
Danger from False Shepherds and Deception
»I saw that many of these shepherds had denied the earlier teachings of God; they had repudiated and discarded the glorious truths they once fervently upheld and had covered themselves with mesmerism and all kinds of deceptions. I saw that they were drunk with error and led their flock to death.«
Original Sources (English)
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