Truth Is Only From God

What great honor, to be speaker for God,
Relaying to men wise counsel from Bliss;
Such must not stray; He will not spare the rod
When your words are substituted for His!
Woe is your lot, if your tongue overween,*
Changing one word He entrusts to your care!
False the teacher whose agenda's between;
If adding, or taking away, beware,
Man's lies often replace the truth divine!
Twice confirm each affirm, lest lies profane.
Truth wings to man only from the Vine;**
False gospel brands His death given in vain!
Transmit with care the words sent from on high;
His the truth; the speaker repeats the cry!

*embellish; **Jesus Christ

The apostle Paul trained a young man named Timothy to be a preacher. His words to him were;

"Do your best to present yourself to God, as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, and who correctly handles the word of truth."
(2 Timothy 2:15)

Timothy proved himself to be trustworthy, and many of our preachers today are similarly to be trusted to 'handle the word of God' accurately. But there have always been false teachers, especially today.

A false teaching in 366 days of 2008 was sponsored by Oprah Winfrey in a program on XM Radio. Marianne Williamson, writer of a book called "Miracles" was the primary presenter. She used the language of the Bible, but not the true concepts taught in the Bible. She called for every person, Christian or non-Christian, with mental or emotional distress to search within his own being until he found God; to communicate with that personal 'god'; and to act on its advice, whatever the advice happened to be. How could "god" advise to commit sin? She told them that there was no sin, hence no guilt, and no punishment forthcoming by so doing. This is absolutely false teaching; of course, it sounds good to the troubled patient. It might be good psychotherapy, but it is false religious guidance. God does not dwell in one who does not accept Jesus as Lord, and the wages of sin is death.