heretic Archives - Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling https://nouthetic.org/tag/heretic/ Welcome to the Mid-America Institute for Nouthetic Studies, founded by Jay Adams. INS provides training and resources for biblical counseling. Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://nouthetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png heretic Archives - Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling https://nouthetic.org/tag/heretic/ 32 32 Hazardous Waste https://nouthetic.org/hazardous-waste/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hazardous-waste https://nouthetic.org/hazardous-waste/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:00:35 +0000 https://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=3252 Hazardous waste is usually something infectious that poses a hazard to human health. We try to eliminate it in various ways. It’s time for true Christians to begin to classify false doctrine under a similar label. And—do everything possible to rid themselves and their congregations of it’s contagion. Waste of the nature that usually goes ...

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]]> Hazardous WasteHazardous waste is usually something infectious that poses a hazard to human health. We try to eliminate it in various ways.

It’s time for true Christians to begin to classify false doctrine under a similar label.

And—do everything possible to rid themselves and their congregations of it’s contagion. Waste of the nature that usually goes under that title is bad; but false doctrine is worse. It can damn people to hell and ruin the lives of genuine believers. We make every effort to rid our hospitals, our cities, our homes of such waste. How much effort do we make to eliminate doctrinal waste?

People consider a civil duty to rid the country of hazardous waste; too many Christians have a very different idea about doctrinal waste—they think it ignoble to clear out such doctrinal trash—even though it is far more harmful.

It’s time for a drive in churches to eliminate every book, pamphlet, video, internet, DVD, or other hazardous doctrinal product from their homes, their churches and their bookstores.

Do you agree?

Well, then, where will you begin?

 

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]]> https://nouthetic.org/hazardous-waste/feed/ 0 Apostates https://nouthetic.org/apostates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apostates Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:00:51 +0000 https://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=3986 Why would anyone write and ask me to do a blog on apostates? But she did, and so I guess I should say a word or two. We know about such people from 1 John. They went out from us that it might be made known that they were not of us, John tells us. So, ...

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]]> Why would anyone write and ask me to do a blog on apostates? But she did, and so I guess I should say a word or two. We know about such people from 1 John. They went out from us that it might be made known that they were not of us, John tells us. So, there you have one test. John also looks at their doctrine—if they refuse to say that Jesus came in the flesh, reject them; if they confess it—accept them. That had to do with one particular heresy of the time. It’s not a general test, but a highly specific one. The specific test was if they agreed – or didn’t with the apostles. You can check out the verses for yourself—wouldn’t hurt you to study 1 John on the subject. (Also check out Deut. 13).

An apostate is one who once claimed to adhere to the truth, then turned his back on it and walked away. Or, perhaps, did all he could to destroy it. You don’t hang around with such people lest you become corrupted (1 Corinthians 15:33). Of course, if it’s a husband or wife, you’ll need to do all you should in your role as such, but you’ll need your church’s help. Otherwise, you’ll have a very hard time of it.

Of course you want to win apostates to Christ, if possible—but you simply must heed the warning in 1 Corinthians as well.

 

Check out our online courses, including, Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling and  The Use of Scripture in Counseling, taught by Jay Adams!

Books related to counseling others:

  1. Competent to Counsel by Jay Adams
  2. The Christian Counselor’s Manual by Jay Adams
  3. How to Help People Change by Jay Adams
  4. Check out our Bookstore for all the best counseling books!

The Christian Counselor’s New Testament and Proverbs, translated by Jay Adams

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For more biblical counseling training, check out our list of INS Online Courses.

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