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Authentic or Counterfeit?
How would you recognize counterfeit Christianity?
In 2 Peter 1 we read about genuine believers. And in 2 Peter 2 we read about counterfeit believers. If you put these chapters side by side you will see the difference between authentic and counterfeit believers.
1. Different Source—Where does the message come from?
Peter says, “We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1:16). And then he says the false teachers exploit you “with stories they have made up” (2:3). So the true teacher sources what he says from the Bible. The false teacher relies on his own creativity. He makes up his own message.
2. Different Message—What is the substance of the message?
For the true teacher, Jesus Christ is central. “We have everything we need for life and godliness in Him” (1:3). For the false teacher, Jesus is at the margins: “They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them” (2:1).
Notice the word secretly. It’s rare for someone in church to openly deny Jesus. Movement away from the centrality of Christ is subtle. The false teacher will speak about how other people can help change your life, but if you listen carefully to what he is saying, you will see that Jesus Christ is not essential to his message.
3. Different Position—In what position will the message leave you?
The true Christian “escapes the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” (1:4). Listen to how Peter describes the counterfeit Christian: “They promise . . . freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity, for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him” (2:19). The true believer is escaping corruption, while the counterfeit believer is mastered by it.
4. Different Character—What kind of people does the message produce?
The true believer pursues goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brother kindness, and love (1:5). The counterfeit Christian is marked by arrogance and slander (2:10). They are “experts in greed” and “their eyes are full of adultery” (2:14). They also “despise authority” (2:10). This is a general characteristic of a counterfeit believer.
5. Different Appeal—Why should you listen to the message?
The true teacher appeals to Scripture. “We have the word of the prophets made more certain and you will do well to pay attention to it” (1:19). God has spoken, and the true teacher appeals to his Word. The false teacher makes a rather different appeal: “By appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error” (2:18). So the true teacher asks, “What has God said in his Word?” The false teacher asks, “What do people want to hear? What will appeal to their flesh?”
6. Different Fruit—What result does the message have in people’s lives?
The true believer is effective and productive in his or her knowledge of Jesus Christ (1:8). The counterfeit is “like a spring without water” (2:17). This is an extraordinary picture! They promise much but produce little.
7. Different End—Where does the message ultimately lead you?
Here we find the most disturbing contrast of all. The true believer will receive “a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1:11). The false believer will experience “swift destruction” (2:1). “Their condemnation has long been hanging over them and their destruction has not been sleeping” (2:3).
Jesus tells us that there will be many who have been involved in ministry in his name, to whom he will say, “Depart from me; I never knew you” (Matthew 7:21). Who are these people? Surely Peter is describing them in this passage.
Don’t Be Naïve
We must not be ignorant: “There will be false teachers among you” (2:1). So how do we apply this warning?
First, Peter’s plain statement reminds us that the church needs to be protected. Among the many wonderful people who come to through the doors of the church each year, some would do more harm than good.
They may seem the nicest of people, but they do not believe in the authority of the Bible or the exclusivity of salvation in Christ. We welcome such people, because they need Christ as much as we do, but we must not allow them to have influence in the church.
Second, skeptics will always be able to point to hypocrisy and inconsistency in the church. They’ve always done it, and they always will. One of the strangest reasons for not following Christ goes like this: “I’ve seen people in the church who are hypocrites.” So you will not follow Christ because some people who claim to do so are hypocrites?
The existence of the counterfeit is never a good reason for rejecting the genuine. Peter essentially tells us, “Of course there are counterfeit Christians. Of course there are teachers who do the church more harm than good. What else would you expect in this fallen world? Grow up! Don’t be naïve! Don’t miss what’s real simply because you have seen the counterfeit.”
Point to 2 Peter 2:1 the next time you meet someone hiding behind this excuse.
Article at this Link
Heptadic structure
I think one of the most important points of this article is about the Different source. Many false teachers loves to create their own source material from where they teach their own version of the Gospel. Now I have posted up a video time and time again about this that dispels any and all doubt that God's Word is truth, authentic and unchanged. God's word needs NO correction or extra frilly's to complete the text. It is divine as it is. But of course when you post up a video, people don't watch it - so here it is from timestamp 2:01:12
There is a Hidden Security Mechanism in the Bible to assure authenticity it is called the Heptadic structure, how it works is as follows. (There are 75 of these rules in total)
As a example the last 12 verses of Mark:
1 - The words used is 175 (7x25)
2 - Letters 553 (7x79)
3 - Vowels 294 (7x42)
4 - Consonants 259 (7x37)
5 - Total Vocabulary 98 (7x14)
6 - Words found before in Mark 84 (7x12)
7 - Only found in the last 12 verses 14 (7x2)
8 - Words used in the Lord's address 42 (7x6)
9 - Total Gematrical Value is 106663 (7x14,809) Greek has a numerical value attached to each of it's letters and this is the total if you add them up
If you would want to write a draft of text with these 9 rules of multiple's of sevens in them and you work for 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year, you need to to a draft every 10 minutes because you will need 40,353,607 drafts to succeed it will take you 3362 years to complete the draft. Now it gets worse, there are 75 rules of multiple's of sevens in this text alone, you do the math of the chances of that occurring by accident:
Lets just take half of these rules and see what are the chances of this occurring by accident (watch the video from the timestamp I have given to get the full picture)
In short if you want to replicate this text with only 34 rules with these multiple's of seven it will take 1000 000 Super Computers at 400 million tries per second 4,300,000 years - and this is just in Mark. It becomes absurd to think that this is by accident or that someone can tamper with the text because guess what, if you tamper with the text then you loose this Heptadic structure!
This occurs in Matthew, Luke, John, Mark, Peter, James, Jude and Paul's books...
Even these people vocabularies fits into this rule, all of these guys has a unique vocabulary only used by them, and those words you can also divide by seven and add up their numerical value and also divide that exactly by seven.
For those who throw out the New testament or the old and want to add or take away from the whole book of the Bible there are these rules of multiple's of seven that only work with the old and new testaments combined!!!! More than 75 of these rules - so guess what, take away the book of Paul you break the structure, add any text you break the structure, these rules only apply if you take the whole Bible unaltered. Watch the whole Video for even more amazing encryptions woven into the Bible or just from timestamp 2:01:12 to understand the Heptadic structure and realize that God's Word is perfect as it is and need not be altered nor has it been.
To end off:
Psalm 12
6 The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.
7 You will keep them and preserve them, O Lord; You will guard and keep us from this [evil] generation forever.
How would you recognize counterfeit Christianity?
In 2 Peter 1 we read about genuine believers. And in 2 Peter 2 we read about counterfeit believers. If you put these chapters side by side you will see the difference between authentic and counterfeit believers.
1. Different Source—Where does the message come from?
Peter says, “We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1:16). And then he says the false teachers exploit you “with stories they have made up” (2:3). So the true teacher sources what he says from the Bible. The false teacher relies on his own creativity. He makes up his own message.
2. Different Message—What is the substance of the message?
For the true teacher, Jesus Christ is central. “We have everything we need for life and godliness in Him” (1:3). For the false teacher, Jesus is at the margins: “They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them” (2:1).
Notice the word secretly. It’s rare for someone in church to openly deny Jesus. Movement away from the centrality of Christ is subtle. The false teacher will speak about how other people can help change your life, but if you listen carefully to what he is saying, you will see that Jesus Christ is not essential to his message.
3. Different Position—In what position will the message leave you?
The true Christian “escapes the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” (1:4). Listen to how Peter describes the counterfeit Christian: “They promise . . . freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity, for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him” (2:19). The true believer is escaping corruption, while the counterfeit believer is mastered by it.
4. Different Character—What kind of people does the message produce?
The true believer pursues goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brother kindness, and love (1:5). The counterfeit Christian is marked by arrogance and slander (2:10). They are “experts in greed” and “their eyes are full of adultery” (2:14). They also “despise authority” (2:10). This is a general characteristic of a counterfeit believer.
5. Different Appeal—Why should you listen to the message?
The true teacher appeals to Scripture. “We have the word of the prophets made more certain and you will do well to pay attention to it” (1:19). God has spoken, and the true teacher appeals to his Word. The false teacher makes a rather different appeal: “By appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error” (2:18). So the true teacher asks, “What has God said in his Word?” The false teacher asks, “What do people want to hear? What will appeal to their flesh?”
6. Different Fruit—What result does the message have in people’s lives?
The true believer is effective and productive in his or her knowledge of Jesus Christ (1:8). The counterfeit is “like a spring without water” (2:17). This is an extraordinary picture! They promise much but produce little.
7. Different End—Where does the message ultimately lead you?
Here we find the most disturbing contrast of all. The true believer will receive “a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1:11). The false believer will experience “swift destruction” (2:1). “Their condemnation has long been hanging over them and their destruction has not been sleeping” (2:3).
Jesus tells us that there will be many who have been involved in ministry in his name, to whom he will say, “Depart from me; I never knew you” (Matthew 7:21). Who are these people? Surely Peter is describing them in this passage.
Don’t Be Naïve
We must not be ignorant: “There will be false teachers among you” (2:1). So how do we apply this warning?
First, Peter’s plain statement reminds us that the church needs to be protected. Among the many wonderful people who come to through the doors of the church each year, some would do more harm than good.
They may seem the nicest of people, but they do not believe in the authority of the Bible or the exclusivity of salvation in Christ. We welcome such people, because they need Christ as much as we do, but we must not allow them to have influence in the church.
Second, skeptics will always be able to point to hypocrisy and inconsistency in the church. They’ve always done it, and they always will. One of the strangest reasons for not following Christ goes like this: “I’ve seen people in the church who are hypocrites.” So you will not follow Christ because some people who claim to do so are hypocrites?
The existence of the counterfeit is never a good reason for rejecting the genuine. Peter essentially tells us, “Of course there are counterfeit Christians. Of course there are teachers who do the church more harm than good. What else would you expect in this fallen world? Grow up! Don’t be naïve! Don’t miss what’s real simply because you have seen the counterfeit.”
Point to 2 Peter 2:1 the next time you meet someone hiding behind this excuse.
Article at this Link
Heptadic structure
I think one of the most important points of this article is about the Different source. Many false teachers loves to create their own source material from where they teach their own version of the Gospel. Now I have posted up a video time and time again about this that dispels any and all doubt that God's Word is truth, authentic and unchanged. God's word needs NO correction or extra frilly's to complete the text. It is divine as it is. But of course when you post up a video, people don't watch it - so here it is from timestamp 2:01:12
There is a Hidden Security Mechanism in the Bible to assure authenticity it is called the Heptadic structure, how it works is as follows. (There are 75 of these rules in total)
As a example the last 12 verses of Mark:
1 - The words used is 175 (7x25)
2 - Letters 553 (7x79)
3 - Vowels 294 (7x42)
4 - Consonants 259 (7x37)
5 - Total Vocabulary 98 (7x14)
6 - Words found before in Mark 84 (7x12)
7 - Only found in the last 12 verses 14 (7x2)
8 - Words used in the Lord's address 42 (7x6)
9 - Total Gematrical Value is 106663 (7x14,809) Greek has a numerical value attached to each of it's letters and this is the total if you add them up
If you would want to write a draft of text with these 9 rules of multiple's of sevens in them and you work for 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year, you need to to a draft every 10 minutes because you will need 40,353,607 drafts to succeed it will take you 3362 years to complete the draft. Now it gets worse, there are 75 rules of multiple's of sevens in this text alone, you do the math of the chances of that occurring by accident:
Lets just take half of these rules and see what are the chances of this occurring by accident (watch the video from the timestamp I have given to get the full picture)
In short if you want to replicate this text with only 34 rules with these multiple's of seven it will take 1000 000 Super Computers at 400 million tries per second 4,300,000 years - and this is just in Mark. It becomes absurd to think that this is by accident or that someone can tamper with the text because guess what, if you tamper with the text then you loose this Heptadic structure!
This occurs in Matthew, Luke, John, Mark, Peter, James, Jude and Paul's books...
Even these people vocabularies fits into this rule, all of these guys has a unique vocabulary only used by them, and those words you can also divide by seven and add up their numerical value and also divide that exactly by seven.
For those who throw out the New testament or the old and want to add or take away from the whole book of the Bible there are these rules of multiple's of seven that only work with the old and new testaments combined!!!! More than 75 of these rules - so guess what, take away the book of Paul you break the structure, add any text you break the structure, these rules only apply if you take the whole Bible unaltered. Watch the whole Video for even more amazing encryptions woven into the Bible or just from timestamp 2:01:12 to understand the Heptadic structure and realize that God's Word is perfect as it is and need not be altered nor has it been.
To end off:
Psalm 12
6 The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.
7 You will keep them and preserve them, O Lord; You will guard and keep us from this [evil] generation forever.
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