“Someone posted that they asked AI to create a list of the top 20 false teachers of our time. We didn’t see the list, but we thought it might be an interesting exercise to see what AI would come up with. Of course, much of the result depends on the way the query is written, and the information isn’t the final authority on the issue. Our query outline was…”
(Don and Joy Veinot – Midwestern Christian Outreach) Hebrews 11 is sometimes called the “Heroes of the Faith Hall of Fame.” The writer specifically names 6 who were heroes of the faith and their deeds, then adds a group simply called “the prophets” (Hebrews 11:32), and gives an overview of their lives:
who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated (Hebrews 11:33-37)
The next part of the description is often difficult to read without becoming a little choked up. They were men, “of whom the world was not worthy.” They were men and women for whom serving God and protecting His people were priorities.
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 those mentioned in the article.
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