(Greg Koukl – Stand to Reason) If you want to quickly spot any form of “Christianity” gone south, watch for three specific telltale signs—a hat-trick of errors that, in whole or in part, characterize virtually every single Christian-sounding group that is off the reservation.
When you encounter a group you suspect may be theologically questionable, find out their answers to this trio of key questions. First, “Who or what is your spiritual authority?” Second, “Who is Jesus?” Third, “What must I do to be saved?”
The answers to these questions separate the wheat from the chaff, theologically. Invariably, aberrant groups falter on either their ultimate source of spiritual authority, or the person of Christ, or the work of Christ. Usually, they err on all three.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as the cults mentioned in the article.