https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47587 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:18:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47587 I think it’s funny when people put down other people’s interpretation of the “bible” and back it up with their own interpretation of the same book, all the different denominations and interpretations arguing with each other about who’s right or wrong and the whole time basing their argument on the same book that itself is a plagiarism of pre-existing pagan beliefs.. I think you all need to study the history of the bible itself (as in how the bible came to be the bible, who wrote it and when) and you may find that you no longer need to put down others for their interpretation of what essentially is a rewrite of much older pagan myth, a good book on the subject is called (from memory) “the secret origins of the bible”.. I’m sure if you look into the subject you may enlighten yourselves a bit and maybe you who call yourselves christian won’t look like such childish idiots with all your infighting and judgement against those who have a different opinion.. Pages like this one do more damage your cause than help it.. I just laugh and shake my head but sometimes I have a bit of fun by throwing in my two cents worth for the sake of it, and to make you question your own beliefs, I trust you believe what you preach, my challenge is for you to question the book you so cherish to see if it is in fact the truth that you are believing in

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47349 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:10:16 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47349 […] How to Profit From False Teachers […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47320 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 17:08:40 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47320 […] How to Profit From False Prophets: David Murray writes, […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47316 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:24:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47316 Hi and thanks very much for the issues that you have identified. I recently bought a book from a professing reformed bookshop titled “Liberating Ministry from Success Syndrome by Kent Hughes “. What attracted me to buy the book is the fact that I found a book that critiques the “success” mentality that many ministries have today. However, the book was awful and I realised that the reason for me buying this book is that the issue is not currently being talked about in reformed circles. Please follow this link for my review of the book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/1581349742/ref=acr_search_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47309 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:59:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47309 I suppose I should also clarify that I don’t think Driscoll and Phillips are false prophets, but I’m widening the application to include others whose actions and/or teaching have been damaging in the Church, and who have also been objects of much criticism, often by people who don’t put up anything constructive as alternatives for those who they think were misguided in their interest in such leaders.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47307 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:35:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47307 Your first and third points: “by helping us discover the questions people are asking” and “by highlighting where the church has been silent” re. how to profit from false prophets are points I have felt challenged about recently, and maybe to one degree or another for much longer. That spirit has impacted some comments I’ve made here and there at church and on Facebook re. what I think sound like self-righteous and sanctimonious criticism of many others of people like Doug Phillips and Mark Driscoll – and Osteen, etc. Too often I get the feeling that such comments fall on deaf ears because too many seem to like their self-righteousness and sanctimonious attitudes and don’t know how to converse around the kind of profits proposed by Murray! Lord, deliver us from our smug self-righteousness so that we don’t become like the people we criticize, even when they are legitimate objects of criticism.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47306 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:12:33 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47306 […] How to Profit from False Prophets – In his ongoing series on Joel Osteen’s heretical work Your Best Life Now, David Murray reminds us of how God uses false teachers in ways that actually benefit the church. […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47303 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:00:42 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47303 […] Read more […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47294 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 02:50:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47294 Good point Gordon. yes, we should indeed be grateful that so many of these battles have been fought for us already.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2015/02/03/how-to-profit-from-false-prophets/#comment-47288 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:09:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=20432#comment-47288 Really good post, David. Thanks. I’ve for sometime considered the necessity of the early Church councils’ debates of various views (e.g., Augustine v. Pelagius) of what constitutes correct teaching of Scripture. Of course, the central heresies continue today but they’re identifiable and for the average layperson such as me, I don’t have to thrash them out on my own. God’s ways are mysterious and prefect.

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