PONDER: Are we seeing this in the churches today? dissenters, infiltrators, world elites sowing division and discord in the name of “love”?
"[Attend to those who] cause
divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned. The men [and women] he would have taken notice of were such who divided them in their religious sentiments, introducing heterodox notions, contrary to the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, and which they had learned from them; ... the doctrine of faith is but one, the Gospel is one uniform thing, all of a piece; and those that profess it ought to be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment: hence their minds were alienated from each other, and they began to despise and judge one another, yea, to go into factions and parties, being unwilling to receive and admit each other to communion; and thus by these men they were divided in sentiments, affection, and worship; and which must needs cause offence to the church and the godly members of it, as well as cause many so to be offended, as to stumble and fall from the doctrine of faith, and profession of it, and greatly stagger and distress weak believers, and bring a scandal on religion, and the name and ways of Christ among the world, as nothing does more so than the jars and discords among Christians: ... So both ministers of the Gospel, and members of churches,
should not be asleep, which is the opportunity false teachers take to sow the seeds of false doctrine, discord, and contention, but
should watch, and be upon their guard ..."*
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*John Gill’s
Exposition of the New Testament: Bible Hub,
Romans 16:17: (Bold emphasis added.)
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/romans/16.htm | also as quoted in David R. Hocking’s
The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Annotated Edition, p. 255).
John Gill (23 November 1697–14 October 1771) was an English Baptist ;pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian who held to a firm Calvinistic soteriology. Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he attended Kettering Grammar School where he mastered the Latin classics and learned Greek by age 11. He continued self-study in everything from logic to Hebrew, his love for the latter remaining throughout his life. ...
John Gill was the first major writing Baptist theologian, his work retaining influence into the 21st century. Gill's relationship with hyper-Calvinism in English Baptist life is a matter of debate. Peter Toon has argued that Gill was himself a hyper-Calvinist, which would make Gill the father of Baptist hyper-Calvinism. However, Tom Nettles and Timothy George have argued that Gill was not a hyper-Calvinist.[4][5][6] Gill's works are still highly regarded by Primitive Baptists and related groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gill_%28theologian%29
