“By carefully comparing Scripture with Scripture and Bible version with Bible version, we may protect ourselves from serious error. If left unchecked, a minor drift from the historical-grammatical test can lead to serious heresy.”
(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwestern Christian Outreach) As we help those who are former cult members, it is nearly always necessary to show them how to read the Bible in its historical and grammatical context. Bringing new clarity to a person’s understanding of Scripture is a process we refer to as “unwinding.” Plenty of false teaching results from lifting passages from their historical-grammatical context and giving them new inventive meanings….
Nearly all cult groups and false teachers within the church build their followings with this nefarious practice. The results of “scripture twisting” are harmful spiritually — and sometimes physically deadly. There have been far more deaths due to the Watchtower’s out-of-context teaching on Acts 15:19-20 than the number who died in the Branch Davidian compound fire in Waco, Texas, in 1993. James, addressing an early council of believers in Acts 15:20, concludes that:
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. (Acts 15:20)
Cults & Heretical Teaching – On Solid Rock Resources
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.