What is an apostate? - Grace to You What is an apostate? The word "apostasy" comes from the Greek apostasia, which is translated "falling away" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 The word is closely related to the Greek word for "divorce " Apostates are those who fall away from the true faith, abandoning what they formerly professed to believe The term describes those whose beliefs are so deficient as to place them outside the pale of
What is apostasy? What is an apostate? - NeverThirsty What Is an Apostate? An apostate is an individual who commits apostasy An apostate falls away from the faith The highly regarded Kittel lexicon gives the apostate definition of “rebel ” 4 That is, apostates rebel against the faith that at one time they claimed they believed
Survival Strategy for Apostate Times, Part 1 - Grace to You There is coming in the future an apostasy and an apostate leader that we come to know as the Antichrist himself In 1 Timothy chapter 4, Timothy explicitly says, because the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times, that’s the time since the coming of the Messiah, even to the end, some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to
Blog Post - The Pathology of an Apostate Church Born from the conviction that true believers must separate from an apostate church, Protestantism has needed only a scant five hundred years to cultivate its own strains of apostasy Much like the Israelites in the book of Judges, the Protestant church seems determined to repeat the mistakes of its past rather than learn from them
When Believers Stop Believing: Portrait of an Apostate The simple definition of an apostate is this: an apostate is someone who knowing fully the gospel turns against it in complete rejection And you could add the component, such as in the case of Steve, that there was, at one point in time, a professed belief in the gospel
The Coming Judgment on Apostates, Part 2 - Grace to You Those apostate false teachers, who stay within the framework of Christianity and pretend to represent God and even Christ and pervert the truth to the destruction of souls, theirs is the severest judgment of all
Remember, Apostate Teachers Are Among Us - NeverThirsty Remember, Apostate Teachers Are Among Us O ur study tonight is in the book of Jude, and we are going to discover that the Holy Spirit urges us to remember the words of the apostles that apostate teachers are among us! We are in Jude 17-19 and this is the first part of Jude’s final comments about apostate teachers I want to start by reading this passage
Ungodly Character of Apostate Teachers, part 2 | NeverThirsty The Apostate—Short Review Now let us look at Jude 12-13 This study will give us more insight into the apostate teacher We have learned in our previous studies that the book of Jude is a warning to believers about apostate teachers Apostate teachers are tares They were never believers even though they have been in the church
Apostates, Be Warned, Part 1 - Grace to You You may not have teaching influence, you may not have ministry influence, you may not be the bishop of anything, but you are a virtual apostate, a defector from the faith you know to be true, the power of which and the truth of which you’ve seen We will contend for the true faith