If someone follows false teachers or teaches false doctrine for a long time, is she saved? | Christian Research Network

Here are 2 similar questions left for Michelle Lesley in her email box:

I have heard pastors say that believers can sin for a ‘season’ without repentance. In regards to professing believers who follow false teachers, what is a ‘season’? Can they continue following them for months? Years?

Is it possible that someone who is a false teacher is actually saved? Could she truly believe the biblical gospel even though, for decades, she has been terribly mishandling God’s Word, and has been on an increasing trajectory of sin and false doctrine?

Michelle’s response: I’m glad you asked. This is such an important issue to think through because, unfortunately, we are surrounded by professing Christians walking down these paths.

When I hear people use the the term “season” when referring to the Christian life, it’s been my experience that they usually mean “an indeterminate period of time”. In my mind, a “season” is longer than a couple of weeks, but shorter than several decades. That really narrows it down, doesn’t it? :0) But if you asked a hundred Christians what a season is, you’d probably get a hundred different answers. View article →

 

CRN’s homepage contains a list of professing Christians to keep an eye on. Scroll down to WARNING. The list contains the names of people, cults, and movements you’ll want to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18.

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