We seem to think these cults that pervert the Good News of Jesus Christ are new. The few popular ones that started in the USA began around the 1850’s. They all tend to say some nice things about Jesus and the Bible and even use some of our lingo; but they mean totally different things. Some treat Jesus as a god, and disbelieve the Trinity. All of them have another book or prophet to “help” interpret the Scripture, when we are told clearly that the Holy Spirit will do that. WORD: they have another book and another prophet so they can misinterpret Scripture.
Paul said: I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--- which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!—Gal.1:6-8
Paul was already dealing with this. It’s not new. It’s always a red flag when someone needs some book other than the Bible to interpret Scripture. Secondly, they will need some extra folks (they’ll usually call them prophets or something distinguished like that or a society) to do some explaining. A guy once told me:” When you’re explaining you’re lying.” Although that is not Scripture, there is some wisdom there. If you read the whole Bible it explains itself! Let Scripture interpret Scripture.
