Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.   For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ( Jude 1:3-4) Not twenty years after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, while there were still people alive that had seen Him and spoken with Him, some had even eaten with Him, false teachers were already forming within the local bodies denying the resurrection and the deity of Jesus Christ. Just as the Apostle Peter had to deal with false teachers in his second epistle ( 2Peter 2:1-3 ), Jude who identifies himself as the brother of James was   inspired to write to a church in an unknown location not concerning salvation...

Doctrine of Devils An introduction to False Teachers and Prophets 1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,  2   by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,  3  men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.  4  For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;  5  for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer (1 Timothy 4:1-5) The above passage is talking about leaders within the church that have fallen because of their lust and now are teachers in their ways of perdition [1] .  False teachers which mingle...