{"id":3579,"date":"2010-06-01T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:04:14","slug":"the-near-death-of-christian-discernment-in-these-last-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/the-near-death-of-christian-discernment-in-these-last-days.html","title":{"rendered":"The near death of Christian discernment in these last days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discernment between good and evil hardly exists in the world in these last days where everyone does what is right in their own eyes. It is displayed by the choices the leaders in the world make nearly every day. For example, the condemning of Israel or Arizona for practicing self defense.<\/p>\n<p>I guess these thing can be expected because we are told these things will happen in these last days. But, even in our churches the lack of spiritual discernment has become quite evident.<strong> One has to wonder how so many that claim to be born of the Spirit show no spiritual discernment about anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the largest churches in America are led by pastors with the least biblical understanding and discernment in Christianity?<\/p>\n<p>Whole denominations like the UCC have departed from the faith to embrace a social liberation theology and the denial of any consequences for sin. Most people still in these denominations obviously were born into a religion but they were never born into Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular movement in &#8220;Christianity&#8221; in America is the prosperity gospel of lust and greed.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular movement with young evangelical Christians is the Emergent Church with its heretical postmodern leadership that redefines\u00a0 foundational truths of Christianity and inserts self induced mystical experiences. (Take a trip with the Jesus created in your own mind&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The top selling Christian book is <strong><a title=\"critical review of the shack by Dr. Norman Giesler\" href=\"https:\/\/www.probe.org\/critique-of-the-shack\/\">the heretical &#8220;The Shack&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<strong> <a title=\"seeker friendly movement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/comments\/Seeker%20friendly.htm\">Seeker Friendly <\/a><\/strong>gospel light movement is still the model for about half of the churches in America.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Damnable heresies invading the Church\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250824031358\/https:\/\/newswithviews.com\/West\/marsha197.htm\">Millions of Christians are\u00a0 buying into the <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\"><strong><a title=\"Damnable heresies invading the Church\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250824031358\/https:\/\/newswithviews.com\/West\/marsha197.htm\">New Apostolic  Reformation (NAR) movement <\/a>each year (<a title=\"dominion theology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/comments\/The%20woman%20on%20the%20beast%20in%20end%20time%20prophecy%20has%20dominion%20theology.htm\">hard Dominionism<\/a>)<\/strong>. The Kingdom Now Word Faith heretics leading this movement keep changing the name and the cover, but the heretical package is still the same. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">How do most misguided teachers and heretics get their following? Mainly through Christian TV networks that also display that they do not have an ounce of discernment. Why can&#8217;t Christians distinguish teachers of the gospel from heretics? Because they so not know or understand the scriptures themselves. They just follow those that tell their fleshly ears what it wants to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Why is it that Christians have no discernment? That is one of the great mysteries of the Church. Could it be that most Christians are really into a religion rather than being in Christ, or is it that most never learned the core doctrines of Christianity and thus they are blown about by every new wind of doctrine? I think both are the case.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We know from surveys that most Christians do not have a Christian worldview and it is more than obvious that most Christians do not know the scriptures. Most Christians cannot even tell you what they believe or why they believe and if you think I blowing it out of proportion read this report by<a title=\"most christians canot explain their faith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/most-christians-cannot-explain-their-faith-says-apologist-45413\/\"> <strong>Josh McDowel on the inability of most Christians to explain their faith.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I lay the blame for Christians not knowing the scriptures on parents, the churches, our educational system, and self.\u00a0 Most parents do not teach their children the Bible at home anymore. Most Sunday schools teach from magazines with selected views about the Bible rather than teaching the Bible. Even Christian grade schools really just teach a secular education with a little Christian history thrown in. Christian higher education often departs from teaching sound doctrine but instead clones a new crop of false teachers. If that is not bad enough, media like the TV and Internet makes it just too easy for Christians to pick and choose what they want to believe and form their own designer Christianity, (Your truth is not my truth). There is so much information overload from extra-biblical sources that without being rooted in sound foundational doctrines of the Bible the students become programed and regurgitate popular arguments of popular heretics. I say self is also to blame because anyone can study the scriptures for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The answer for the near death of Christian discernment is repentance. Parents and educators need to start treat the Bible like it actually contained the words of God for man to believe and live by. It does.\u00a0 But, we all know that this generation is too enlightened by the world to believe absolute truth from the Bible exists. The consequences for departing from the Word are spelled out in several books of the Bible but first you need to read them and believe them. The outcome in these days will be just as stated, Here is but one example and it already fits our time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>2 Ti 3:1\u00a0 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.<br \/>\n2\u00a0 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,<br \/>\n3\u00a0 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,<br \/>\n4\u00a0 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;<br \/>\n5\u00a0 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.<br \/>\n6\u00a0 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,<br \/>\n7\u00a0 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.<br \/>\n8\u00a0 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, <strong>reprobate concerning the faith.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discernment between good and evil hardly exists in the world in these last days where everyone does what is right in their own eyes. It is displayed by the choices the leaders in the world make nearly every day. For example, the condemning of Israel or Arizona for practicing self defense. 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