“I find myself asking—quietly at first, then louder, then not quietly at all: What God? Because the answer to that question is not abstract. It is not philosophical. It is not negotiable. “No one who denies the Son has the Father. That’s not a rhetorical shibboleth. That’s a hard line in the sand.”
(The Dissenter) “Antichrists are the dissembled enemies of Christ, who every manner of way are against the doctrine of Christ, whose followers they profess themselves to be (1 John 2:18–22; 4:3; 2 John 7).” — Amandus Polanus
I keep coming back to that word, “dissembled.” Not open hostility. Not the snarling enemy at the gate. No, something far more unnerving. The kind that smiles. The kind that speaks the language. The kind that stands in familiar places, wears familiar garments, and says just enough of the right things to pass—until you actually listen.
And then you hear it.
Not a denial of God. Not even a denial of prayer. But a slow, careful blurring. A gentle smudging of lines that Scripture drew in ink, not pencil.
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 “Pope” Leo.