American Shibboleth

The church's (the body of Christ) history and Bible history has alway been intertwined. They cannot be separated. Through the pages of those two histories, however, there has always been three kinds of christians: The first group is the "Bible Receivers." We all start from here. Someone shares the Bible to us and then we receive it. There is nothing wrong with being here unless you decide to simply stay here. The second group is the "Bible Deceivers". A Christian gets to a point where he leaves his final authority and hold the church fathers, bible scholars or the preachers he's most impressed with on a higher pedestal than that of the Bible's. He's both deceived and deceiving others to think the same way he's thinking. Sadly people who are deceived are not aware that they are. Finally, there's the "Bible Believers". This is the group in which 1 Thessalonians 2:13 applies - "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." God's words take effect in those that believe it. In this study, we talk about the 7 signs of a pseudo-Bible believer.