II Corinthians 11:3-4
But I fear that somehow you will be led away from your pure and simple devotion to Christ, just as Eve was deceived by the serpent. You seem to believe whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach about a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different Spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you believed.
It's interesting that Satan didn't just try to convince Eve that God didn't exist; instead, he just filled her head with half truths and misinformation about the nature and will of God. Nothing has changed. When Satan can't introduce atheistic thinking, he just twists the truth. Believers in God can become believers in a false gospel--dangerous!
The fact that such distortions could be so soon passed off as truth should serve as a warning to us. Satan has had a lot more time to introduce doubts and confusing philosophies. The advantage we have that the early disciples did not is that we have the written word. We can find truth and confirm our faith by going to the original source--the entire recorded word of God.
With such a gift, we should treasure the Bible as a source of infallible truth. We can place our confidence in the omnipotent power of God to keep it untainted through the centuries so that we can know the truth. God will surely not overlook our ignorance as an excuse when we have such a holy resource at our disposal Our search for truth begins and ends within its pages
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