COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS

Truth vs. Tradition

Many believers have inherited teachings that contradict scripture. Here we examine common misconceptions against the unchanging Word of Truth.

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." - 1 Thessalonians 5:21

The Law Was Nailed to the Cross

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❌ Common Teaching:

"Jesus fulfilled the law so we don't have to keep it. The Old Testament law was nailed to the cross."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Matthew 5:17-19
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law..."
Colossians 2:14
The "handwriting of ordinances" refers to the record of our sins (debt) - not God's law.

What was nailed to the cross was our certificate of debt, not the commandments.

Romans 3:31
"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."

We're Under Grace, Not Under Law

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❌ Common Teaching:

"We're saved by grace, not by keeping the law. Being 'under grace' means we don't need to obey God's commandments."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Romans 6:14-15
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid."

"Under the law" means under the penalty/curse of the law (death for sin). Grace doesn't give us license to sin (break the law).

1 John 3:4
"Sin is the transgression of the law."
Romans 6:1-2
"Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid."

All Foods Are Now Clean

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❌ Common Teaching:

"Jesus declared all foods clean. Peter's vision proved we can eat anything. God changed His mind about dietary laws."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Mark 7:19
In context, Jesus was talking about eating with unwashed hands, not changing dietary laws. The phrase "purging all meats" refers to the digestive process.
Acts 10:28
"God hath shewed me that I should not call any MAN common or unclean."

Peter's vision was about accepting Gentiles, not changing dietary laws.

Isaiah 66:17
"They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD."

Even in the future kingdom, those eating unclean foods will be consumed.

Leviticus 11:44-45
"For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy..."

God's dietary laws were given for our health and holiness. He doesn't change (Malachi 3:6).

Sunday Is the New Sabbath

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❌ Common Teaching:

"The Sabbath was changed to Sunday to honor the resurrection. Constantine officially changed it. The early church worshipped on Sunday."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Exodus 20:8-11
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God..."

The 7th day Sabbath is the 4th commandment, a perpetual covenant.

Matthew 24:20
"But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day"

Jesus expected Sabbath observance to continue after His death.

Acts 13:42-44
"And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath... And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God."

Gentiles asked Paul to preach on the Sabbath, not Sunday. There is zero biblical authority for changing God's Sabbath. Sunday worship came from pagan sun worship mixed with Christianity.

Daniel 7:25
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws..."

Once Saved, Always Saved

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❌ Common Teaching:

"Once you accept Jesus, you can never lose your salvation no matter what you do. You're eternally secure."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Hebrews 10:26-27
"For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment..."
2 Peter 2:20-21
"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning."
Revelation 3:5
"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life..."

Names can be blotted out of the book of life, proving salvation can be lost.

Matthew 24:13
"But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."

Christmas and Easter Are Biblical

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❌ Common Teaching:

"We should celebrate Christmas and Easter to honor Jesus's birth and resurrection. These are Christian holy days."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Jeremiah 10:2-4
"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."

This describes and condemns the Christmas tree tradition 600 years before Christ.

Ezekiel 8:14-16
"Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz... and they worshipped the sun toward the east."

Easter (Ishtar/Tammuz worship) was an abomination to God. Neither holiday is commanded in scripture. Both have pagan origins (winter solstice/fertility festivals).

Deuteronomy 12:30-32
"Take heed...that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God..."

God's actual holy days are listed in Leviticus 23.

The Law Is Only for Jews

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❌ Common Teaching:

"The Old Testament law was only given to the Jews. Gentile Christians don't need to keep the law."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Numbers 15:16
"One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you."
Isaiah 56:6-7
"Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain..."

Gentiles who keep the Sabbath and hold to the covenant are welcomed.

Romans 2:11-13
"For there is no respect of persons with God... for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."
Ephesians 2:12-13
"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise... But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."

Gentiles are grafted into the commonwealth of Israel, not a separate entity.

Paul Taught Against the Law

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❌ Common Teaching:

"Paul said we're not under the law. He taught that keeping the law is bondage and legalism."

✓ What Scripture Says:

Acts 24:14
"But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets"

Paul himself declared he believed ALL things written in the law.

Acts 21:24
"Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law."

Paul was accused of teaching against the law, but it was proven false.

Romans 7:12
"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
2 Peter 3:16
"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."

Peter warned that Paul's writings are hard to understand and often twisted.

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