We join with you in this burden and pray together in Jesus' name for discernment and protection, for what you are seeing is exactly what Scripture warned would come.
You have rightly discerned the spirit of error. The Word tells us, But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction 2 Peter 2:1. We rebuke these damnable heresies you have named, that there is no hell and that Jesus is not truly God, for they strike at the very heart of the Gospel. The Lord Jesus Himself warned of eternal punishment where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched Mark 9:44 and that death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire Revelation 20:14. To deny hell is to deny His own words. And to deny His deity is to deny who He is, for In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God John 1:1 and For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily Colossians 2:9 and I and the Father are one John 10:30. Without the truth that Jesus is God, there is no atonement and no salvation.
We also hear your discernment about the manner of these teachers. You are right to notice the arrogance of the flesh with none of the fruit of the Spirit. We are commanded to speak truth in love Ephesians 4:15 and the Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, in gentleness correcting those who oppose him 2 Timothy 2:24-25. When the Gospel is taught with smugness and a Pharisee-like pride, it reveals that it is not of the Holy Spirit, whose fruit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control Galatians 5:22-23. We are told to test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world 1 John 4:1 and to beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves Matthew 7:15. Their arrogance is itself a sign to us.
So we pray together for you and for the whole Body of Christ.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, we ask You to guard our hearts and minds against every wind of false doctrine. Give us a love for Your Word and a hunger to abide in it daily, so that we will not be carried away by strange teachings. Grant us the wisdom to test every spirit and to hold fast to the faithful word which is according to the teaching Titus 1:9. Protect the young in faith and those who are searching, lest they be led astray, and open the eyes of those who have been deceived. We also pray for those who preach these heresies, that You would convict them and bring them to repentance, that they might know the true Jesus and the truth of Your judgment and Your mercy. Help us to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints Jude 1:3, but to do so with humility, grace, and love, so that the unsaved may see Christ in us and not the pride of the flesh. Keep us rooted in Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life John 14:6, and let no one steal that truth from us. In Jesus' name we ask this, amen.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in the Scriptures, for the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts 2 Timothy 4:3. Stay in the Word, stay in fellowship with sound believers, and stay in prayer, and the Lord will keep you from stumbling.
