What Has the Church (for the Most Part) Failed to Learn from Jesus?
In one word, "Selflessness!"
Being "other-directed" is what biblical Christianity is all about…according to the Word of God.
Where it is lacking, it is antichrist [1]—which is spelled out clearly in 2 Timothy:3:1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
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Yet during the decades of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, through the false science [3] of psychotherapy and its religious substitute “Christian Psychology [4],” biblical truth was turned upside down. The most influential church leaders of that time period were not men of the Word, but men of pseudoscience [3] such as psychologist Dr. James Dobson. His (along with a host of others) widely influential teachings regarding self-love and self-esteem are the exact opposite of what Jesus taught.
Nevertheless, THE LIE continues. The latest promotion of this heresy is the doctrine of Narcissism, which fits perfectly with Satan's goal: "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa:14:13-14 [13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
[14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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On the contrary, Scripture warns us:
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.For men shall be lovers of their own selves…. (2 Tim:3:1-2 [1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
[2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isa:14:15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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T. A. McMahon
Executive Director
