As one plows through the material written about even the problems in our own denomination in the last few years, it is enough to make you dizzy and want to just give up. Well, at the risk of perpetuating the discussion and the nausea, I want to consider again, this ever-timely concern for fidelity to the truth of God in the church of God. I want to consider how a believer and a congregation of believers can best protect themselves against the proliferated intrusion of error. After all, most churches in the world, sooner or later, have given in. Every church that has split from its parent church on issues of doctrinal integrity and the like, have eventually, been seized by error.
Syncretism can enter our doors in subtle ways.
There has been a tradition within Roman Catholicism through the ages that has acknowledged as much. By and large, with many exceptions, of course, it denies that the Bible is the Word of God, that Christ is the Son of God, and that those and only those who believe in him are the real church of God. It is a smorgasbord of the worst kind of errors. And, it's happening today. Robert Rayburn writes, The first major work of evangelical feminism was published in 1974.