Getting Help to Misunderstand

the Scriptures

Doy Moyer

Yes, there are those who would help you to misunderstand what the Bible says. The Bible speaks of them in 2 Peter 3:16-17: “speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked.”

We are thus told to “Be on your guard.” Something as simple as, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:16) is twisted to say, “He who believes is saved, and he can be baptized if he wants to, as long as he understands that it has nothing to do with salvation.” As the Scripture says, “Be on your guard.”