Why Are There So Many Religions and False Teachers?

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There are a lot of false teachings in the world. Paganism, Gnosticism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shamanism, even

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Judaism, Polytheism, Pantheism, Deism, Darwinism, Naturalism, Secular Humanism, Feminism, Agnosticism, Atheism, and Islamism.

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All these different ways to get to God, or be a God, or deny God. But Jesus said,

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I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one gets to the Father but by me.

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Of course, not everything that claims to be of Christ is truly of Christ. Like Catholicism, Mormonism, Unitarian Universalism, Oneness Pentecostalism, Heaven Tourism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Eastern Orthodoxy, Word of Faith, the

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New Apostolic Reformation, and Rob Bell. So why all these false religions and teachers? Why would

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God allow there to be so many, many lies? Two reasons, testing and judgment.

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The Bible says of those who refuse to love the truth and so be saved, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in their sin.

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In Deuteronomy 13 we are told, If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you, and gives you a sign or a wonder, and says,

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Let us go after other gods, you shall not listen to that false prophet. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the

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Lord with all your heart and with all your soul. When it comes down to it, there are only two religions.