To continue with the listing of the incorrect doctrines of our day:

The interpretation of being saved "so as by fire" to mean the fruitless believer will be rewarded and never scolded but will have a smaller mansion than more diligent believers.

The applying of the numerous warnings of the Apostle Paul, such as Galatians 5:19-21 and Romans 6:23, to unsaved people when they obviously were written to the believers in Galatia and Rome. The reason for this misunderstanding is that the religious leaders of today cannot believe that God actually would punish a Christian severely or disinherit him or her. "Thou shalt not surely die" is heard from many pulpits.

The church leaders do not understand that the program of redemption requires much suffering before we are freed from our sins and reconciled to God, although the concept of salvation through fiery ordeals is taught clearly in the fourth chapter of I Peter.

The concept that the Christian must never suffer. Christ did all the suffering for us. It was His part to be poor and rejected, to suffer agony. Our part is to be rich, popular, and never to be chastened severely by the Lord.

A modern doctrine is that Christians are to be rich in this world and that they can use "faith" as a tool to acquire riches.

Christians are to imagine what they want and then speak the creative word that will bring their imagined object or situation into physical existence.

Today we have thousands of Christians who believe the role of the churches is to govern secular society and to force unsaved people to behave in a manner acceptable to the Christians.

One division of Christians is teaching that the Lord will not return until the Christian people, using the gifts God has given, have created the Kingdom of God on the earth.

Some Christians still believe that the gifts and ministries of the Spirit are not for today; that Divine healing ended with the first-century Apostles.

The belief that the grace of God is enlarged by our sinning. The Apostle Paul firmly denounced this deadly error and yet it is implied by current "grace" teaching.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. (Romans 3:7,8)

It is true that where sin abounds grace does much more abound. This does not mean if we sin God is able to show more grace (what an abomination!; how totally destructive of God's intention under the new covenant!). The expression where sin abounds grace does much more abound means that as evil increases God furnishes more virtue, wisdom, and power so we can overcome the evil. Modern theology turns the grace of God into immorality.

Notice the following:

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness [as defined by the sixth chapter of Romans] unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:20,21)

And also:

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:1,2)

To be continued.