Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit
HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT (# 1)
Heresy Hunters, in their determination to expose wrongdoings and wrong teachings within the charismatic camp (and other religious camps) have done much damage to Christ’s saints. For those who have given ears and hearts to these spiritual stalkers, perhaps wisdom and fair play would suggest we be equally keen to apply the same scrutiny to them. Make sense?
I am not a part of, nor do I defend, the charismatic camp (group, faction, division). I am in the (rather minuscule) New Testament camp, consisting of those who earnestly try to live by NT writings. My perspective regarding Heresy Hunters is as follows: Heresy Hunters can no more be defined as New Testament christians than the charismatics they criticize.
Like you and like me, Heresy Hunters have a degree of truth. And like us they have a degree of untruth. At best, we are gaining truth; nobody has arrived. Our trust must solely rest in The Truth. (Jesus: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”) Regarding untruth, these dogmatic stalkers have more in common with charismatic christians than both camps would care to admit.
While they do a commendable service to Christ’s saints by exposing fallacies and malpractices, they also do much harm. Heresy Hunters fear, ignore and slight the Holy Spirit and, intentionally or otherwise, induce much of the body of Christ, including many Facebook friends, to likewise fear, ignore and slight Him. This is a very serious matter!! FB friends (etcetera) cannot live a successful christianity outside submission to the Holy Spirit. Therefore….
Therefore I hereby take “the sword of the Spirit” and declare war, not against Heresy Hunters (my siblings-in-Christ), but against their malignant heresies. Stay tuned?