Doc Stier wrote:Most certainly, there are many members of every religion who consider anything outside the norm of their faith beliefs as a demonic threat to their spiritual wellbeing. However, if that was really true, the Old Testament prophets would have to be rejected as such by that same standard, yet they are not. Paranoid thinking is a clear sign of weak faith, imo.
The Old Testament prophets were indeed rejected. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!"
Jude exhorts us to contend "for the faith once for all delivered to the saints." Now, there are similarities in other insights and faiths and viewpoints, but what is it Jude is talking about here? What separates Christian from other views? What, Father, is heresy?