"He said a lot of good things BUT..."
How many times have we heard someone make this statement after listening to a preacher or reading an article? I was reading an article in our local newspaper this morning in which a person made some statements concerning God and how good he is and how people should depend on him and seek him etc. This person finished their article with this sentence; " I can only pray and hope that people will come to know God and EARN THEIR SALVATION." You and I could have lived with all the other things this person said concerning God. But then came the poison! Then came the words that will kill you dead! "Earn their salvation!" That last sentence was not only poison but it poisoned everything else that person said. 2% poison in rat bait makes the whole batch poison. Would any of us sit down to eat a little bowl of rat bait and try to carefully divide the 2% from the 98%? We would never think of doing such a thing. If there is one sentence of deadly heresy in a messag