The Word of God declares that deception in the church will be one of the primary hallmarks of the end times. The word translated ‘deceiver’ in our opening passage of Scripture is the word ‘phrenapatē's’ (pronounced: fren-ap-at'-ace) which literally means ‘a mind misleader’, that is ‘a seducer’.1 Interestingly, the word translated ‘seducer’ is the Greek word ‘goēs’ (pronounced: go’-ace) which means ‘a wizard muttering spells, that is (by implication) an imposter: seducer’2
No matter which way you slice the cheese, deception is always wrong and neither glorifies God nor edifies the saint. Deliberately employed psychological mood altering techniques masquerading as spirituality is deception of the worst kind and is to be deplored.
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