Apostasy
It is in his gospel and church alone that Christ can now suffer at the hands of men. When any important principle of evangelical truth is forsaken and renounced; when gospel obedience is persistently neglected; when men begin to believe other things than what it teaches and do not live as the gospel requires, then we have a partial apostasy. [AFTG]
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The only way to prevent this falling away from the gospel is to love the truth and to experience its power in the heart. [AFTG]
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The danger of apostasy will always be present if men receive the truth only in their minds, but do not love it in their hearts and gladly submit to it in their wills. [AFTG]
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The means of keeping us from apostasy (is) we must be taught truth by the Spirit of truth (1 Jn 2:27). AFTG
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Open defections from truth and righteousness are to be expected in this wicked world. [JJTP]
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Apostasy from evangelical worship happens in two ways. It happens either by neglecting and refusing to observe what Christ has appointed, or by adding ways of worshipping which we have invented. [AFTG]
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Many Christians succumb to apostasy in times of popularity and acceptance who would never cast off Christ in times of the severest persecution. [AFTG]
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Ignorance of truth and hatred of holiness worked hand in hand to promote the great apostasy. – AFTG
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Whenever a man begins to slide with respect to orthodoxy, he generally attempts to break, if not conceal, his fall, by declaiming against creeds and confessions.
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First, men doubt the truth, then they depart from the truth.