By placing a counterfeit path (acknowledgment, sinner’s prayer, public profession, baptism, church attendance etc.) beside the real path to salvation (faith, repentance, surrender), Satan has done what he has always done; presented “…a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs 16:25).

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
When the question of appeal becomes a factor in determining doctrinal positions, we don’t just invite error, we invite evil.

Delusion occurs when the warm fuzzy feeling we get from the preferred belief is more important to us than truth. God said he would send “strong delusion” to those who “received not the love of the truth”.

The love of money may be the root of all evil, but self-centeredness is the soil from which the root draws its nourishment and without which evil cannot survive.

They are being sucked into the vortex; the downward spiral that starts with shaving the rough edges off the truth, and ends with wholesale deception.
Street wise people see the church’s emphasis on tithing as just a way of separating folks from their money.

Indulging the insecurities of spiritual pygmies instead of sending them back to the boot camp of surrender is paving the way for the Antichrist.