Did you ever see a dessert at the front of a restaurant that looks just wonderful and told the waitress, I want that one not one from the kitchen, that one. She probably told you it was plastic! Likewise, in magazines the ice cream on top that never melts during the photo shoot is usually a lard.
People are often not what they appear to be. What about a skunk? It is gorgeous until you get a whiff of the little darling.
The same is true of various religions being promoted today and the thing is Christians are being fooled into believing things that are not true and even bringing those things into the church. I John 4:1-10(NIV)- tells us: Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowldge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Be careful who you believe, if you have a doubt open the Bible for yourself and see if what you are being told lines up with the Word of God. Don't just acept it because it looks good!
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