Dr F. A. Schaeffer wrote, "...in our generation, when men listen at the doors of many churches, what they hear is non-truth." In other words, they are hearing the negative of truth which may be understand as error and falsehood. Truth has been undermined by these 'prophets,' and what they substitute in place of the true Gospel is not Gospel (Gal.1:7), but the opposite; it is a soul-destroying message that allows condemned sinners to go on in their rebellion and guilt to a Christless eternity. It is a message that not only enrages God, but does an irreparable dis-service to those who hear them. It is the very height of spiritual irresponsibility, and will result in eternal loss for all those who preach thus and to those who hear them and it. Whatever else they might imagine it to be, it is not Gospel; it is non-Gospel.
Now. when the preachers of non-Gospel messages do so, it has a clearly designed result; it causes "my people Israel to err," (Jer.23:13-16). It is the wrong messages that the people listen to in good faith that causes them to err - in thought and in action. While the responsibility for choosing to listen to error lies rightly with the people themselves, the greater responsibility lies with the pedlars of false doctrine, error, falsehood, non-Gospel. What a condemnation awaits such people!
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