America’s New Favorite Religion & The Coming Persecution

In episode 11, I’ll discuss how false teaching doesn’t usually come in and attack Christianity through the front door, such as outright denying the deity of Christ, but subtlety creeps in through the back door to distort and pervert pure Christian doctrine. False teaching is usually caused by syncretism—which is the attempt to blend different religions together.Sadly, we are usually slow to recognize the infiltration of false teaching because we tend to have such a man-centered outlook on life, and we tend to have such a low view of the holiness of God. Therefore, we usually take it easy on those who seek to lead us astray, instead of recognizing the offense and dishonor that is being brought on the name of God.Because the new syncretistic religion appears friendly towards Christianity, it ends up paving the way for persecution. Christians gradually accept the subtle change to their religion, and when laws are made to enforce the new version of Christianity, those who hold to the old orthodoxy can be fined, imprisoned, or put to death as bigots and enemies of the state without any real challenge or opposition. Pastors may even turn in faithful members of their own congregation.So, what is the new favorite religion that is potentially threatening genuine Christians with persecution? We will see that it is actually an old religion that is once again secretly infusing itself into Christianity. This is not a new problem at all, but one that the New Testament itself explicitly deals with. Therefore, may we sound the alarm and defend the faith once for all delivered unto the saints as the apostles did in the New Testament, and as the reformers did in the 16th century.