The false teaching of the “Carnal Christian”
10 reasons why the false doctrine of the carnal Christian is unbiblical.
This heresy leads many people to think they are christians who ate not. No fruit, no changed life. No Holy Spirit. NO SALVATION.
1-The “Carnal Christian” teaching is primarily based on an erroneous interpretation of a single passage of Scripture (1 Cor. 3:1-4).
2- The “Carnal Christian” teaching perverts many other doctrines of the Christian faith.
3- The “Carnal Christian” teaching separates the two main doctrines of the Christian faith–justification and sanctification.
4- The “Carnal Christian” teaching separates the new covenant by making the act of submission to Christ optional–what God has joined together let no man or teaching put asunder.
5- The “Carnal Christian” teaching makes holiness, obedience and discipleship optional. See John 10:26-28; 14:21-23; 15:10; 1 Pet. 1:155,16; Heb. 12:14; Titus 2:10-14.
6- The “Carnal Christian” teaching breeds antinomianism and gives a false standard of what a Christian really is.
7- The “Carnal Christian” teaching is the mother of many of the second-work-of-grace errors.
8- The “Carnal Christian” teaching actually teaches two ways to heaven: one, the carnal-Christian way and two, the spiritual-Christian way–whichever your prefer.
9- The “Carnal Christian” teachers ignore the biblical distinction between the grounds of salvation and the grounds of assurance.
10- The “Carnal Christian” teaching breeds a false spirituality and Pharisaism in the so-called “spiritual Christians” who have measured up to some man-made standard of spirituality. There ought to be no professed “spiritual Christians,” much less “super-spiritual” ones! George Whitefield, a man who lived very close to his Savior, prayed all his days, “Let me begin to be a Christian.” And another Christian has truly said, “In the life of the most perfect Christian there is every day renewed occasion for self-abhorrence, for repentance, for renewed application to the blood of Christ, for application of the rekindling of the Holy Spirit.”
False doctrine always leads people to the broadest path leading to destruction. False teachers want to be all exclusive to have a large following. I notice Jesus always thinning out the false converts.
You can always tell there’s false teacher when they teach this heresy. They want to comfort carnality and they speak against those who talk about holiness. They call them legalistic. Teaching people to be obeient to Jesus’ commands is not legalism. These false teachers like to use the term that the other guy is “always taking things out of context. I challenge you to read Romans 8 and discern between carnal and spiritual. What is the end result of the carnal?
