Recommending Herescope

Don't miss any excellent entry on Herescope. My friends there do such a great job on researching apostasy and examining current affairs in light of the Bible. Here is an excerpt:

...We have previously written on Herescope[9] about how other evangelical leaders are using sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate the brains, creating lustful thoughts and pleasurable feelings to further their heretical agenda. We have published articles critical of the new "passion" emphasis,[10] which invokes romanticism, eroticism, and lust in worship.[11] These fleshly lusts are quickly becoming substitutes for true spirituality. This latest doctrinal perversion of T.D. Jakes is an alarming example of these emerging erotic seductions, luring people into heretical imaginations. And it is an obvious example of the dangers inherent in idolatry.


The Truth:

Lest we forget, the Scripture calls this form of idolatry by the term adultery. Spiritual adultery. As Dr. Francis Schaeffer wrote many years ago:

We find [God] uses the term adultery, and parallel terms over and over again, in regard to the people of God turning away from Himself.

In Exodus 34:12-14 he says: "Take heed to thyself , lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shalt worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God; lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice." When the people of God turned aside to these gods, the false gods round about, what does God call it? He says, Do you not understand what you are doing? You are going whoring, you are caught in the midst of spiritual adultery....

In Ezekiel 6:9 God is speaking, not Ezekiel. "I am broken with their whorish heart." God is saying about His people who have turned away into apostasy, "I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols." Notice how God is concerned about His people. This is not a neutral thing, a matter of indifference, to God. God is not just a theological term; He is not a "philosophical other." He is a personal God, and we should glory in the fact that He is a personal God. But we must understand that since He is a personal God, He can be grieved. When His people turn away from Him, there is sadness indeed on the part of the omnipotent God.[12]

"Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions." (Psalm 106:39) ...