Since their churches have been the product of the diseases coming from the viruses of heresies they continue to live out of the kingdom of God. Such corrupted and diseased prone churches have resulted in the mushrooming of many different churches that have the viruses of corrupted faith in them. Each of them believes in the lies of the enemy of Christ, the anti-Christ who is yet to be fully revealed but whose spirit has infiltrated the true church. Many have gone out but still many remained in the church bearing with them the viruses of heresies. They are in the church but they are in truth no longer a member of the church because they have by their actions and beliefs ex-communicated themselves from the true church in truth and in spirit.
To them the parable of the Lord about the Kingdom of God which is also a form of prophecy has been fulfilled, they are the weeds that will continue to be in the kingdom but will be bundled together on judgment day to be burned to eternal fire.
WHAT THEN IS HERESY?
Heresy is understood today to mean the denial of revealed truth as taught by the Church. It has all the appearance of Christianity yet it is contradictory to the essence and true spirit of its teachings. It lacks the orthodoxy or obedience to the teaching authority that is the Church and instead deviates to it by human reasons and understanding. Heresy is a contradiction of the truth. It is a lie buried in some truth. A half-truth or partial truth is still a lie. It has all the appearance of Christianity but it is, in reality, oppose to it opposing the Pillar and Foundation of the Truth that is the Church. Once left unchecked and uncorrected it will then produce more lies until the truth is no longer seen but the lies the covered the truth. That is heresy. It leads us to sin and sin big, the unforgivable sin of the Holy Spirit that makes man hardened his heart and man refusing to see and hear the truth even if it is already so obvious. St. Paul in his 2nd Epistle said "even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them"Heresy, therefore, leads to the denial of the Lord. And there are many ways to deny the Lord while professing to follow him. For this reason the Lord said "Not all who call on me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of God"
How can one deny the Lord and still be in his church? Either one will stay and still deny the Lord or one will get out the Church to found their own community, their own man-made churches. But even those who stay that embrace heresies deny the Lord because they are agents of the anti-Christ that is planted by the enemy to destroy the Church from within and open the gates of hell for those that will follow them. The Church, therefore, is attack from the inside and from the outside. Heresies are the gates of hell that open up for those that will follow them. But the Lord has decreed it from the moment he said he will build his Church that "even the gates of hell shall not prevail against it". It is for this reason that one can understand why the Catholic Church has withstood the attacks of the enemy from within and from the outside throughout its existence. It is the true church and only the true church can last this long and still continue to stand strong.
HOW DESTRUCTIVE IS HERESY?
One of the most destructive heresy which has hounded the Church for centuries and has led many to sin is Arianism which not only split the Church for some time until it was finally defeated and banished from the Church but it has even to the two main religions that to this day vigorously and consistently opposed the Catholic Church without end with only one objective to totally destroy it.
Arianism gave birth to more heresies and false doctrines that in time gave birth to other religions that is directly in opposition to the true Christian religion of the Catholic Church.
Arianism gave birth to the Ebionite Christians which gave birth to Islam through the cousin of the wife of Muhammad who was an Ebionite monk that converted to Islam in the course of Muhammad so-called revelation while in trance. Quran or Koran the holy book of Islam was written using the scriptures written by the Ebionites. The Ebionite bible. Ebionites is a patristic term referring to a Jewish Christian movement that existed during the early centuries of the Christian Era. According to Ebionites belief, Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah but reject his divinity and his virgin birth and insisted on the necessity of following Jewish law and rites. In time they have dispersed to other nations in the Middle East. Then it gave birth to Monothelitism that in turn gave birth to Unitarianism which gave birth to many religions and churches that follow similar Doctrines. Later on, the convergence of various thoughts and heresies gave rise to Reformation that gave birth to Protestant churches of divergent doctrines. One can easily see that in spite of all of these religions and churches that supposedly believe in Jesus Christ they could not agree on many aspects of Christology. Meanwhile, many more sects, religions, and preachers and they could hardly agree on anything. Is this what the Lord planned his church to be? That anyone who can read the bible and can come up with his own interpretation and is able to preach will be able to start new church using the name of the Lord and proclaim it to be the Church of Christ.
With the abundance of heresies and heretical churches and religions, followers now fight over the meaning of the word of God in the bible. The debate is never-ending over verses in the bible which is applied to their convoluted doctrines weaved from the biblical verses that will apply to their beliefs but don't mind if their logic and conclusions to which their doctrines are based are contradicted by the same bible in other verses.
Once the Christian believers threw out their obedience to the teaching authority the true Church, all things break loose. Its anybody's theology and anybody's church. But the problem is more serious if the Church itself from the Pope and bishops would subtly changing dogmas and doctrines of the Catholic Church without anyone of the Catholics noticing it or they may have noticed it but choose to keep silent about it. That in itself is the danger the Church and the faithful are facing. The loss of many souls. In its close to 2,000 years of existence the Church has survived, Arianism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, and many many more. It will continue to survive yes but many Catholics will be lost to heresy and endanger their souls.
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