======================================================================== WARNINGS TO THE CHURCHES - ALL KINDS OF STRANGE TEACHINGS by J.C. Ryle ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \"Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them\" (Hebrews 13:9) The text which heads this paper is an apostolic caution against false doctrine. It forms part of a warning which Paul addressed to Hebrew Christians. It is a caution just as much needed now as it was eighteen hundred years ago. Never, I think, was it so important for Christian ministers to cry aloud continually, \"Do not be carried away.\" That old enemy of mankind, the devil, has no more subtle instrument for ruining souls than that of spreading false doctrine. \"A murderer and a liar from the beginning. . . .your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.\" Outside the Church he is ever persuading men to maintain outrageous customs and destructive superstitions. Human sacrifice to idols, gross revolting, cruel, disgusting worship of abominable false deities, persecution, slavery, cannibalism, child murder, devastating religious wars--all these are a part of Satan\\ ======================================================================== Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jc-ryle/warnings-to-the-churches-all-kinds-of-strange-teachings/ ========================================================================