False Christianity Exists Everywhere

2nd Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

The word “Christian” is perhaps the most misused, misapplied and misunderstood word in the English language. Scripturally, believers in Jesus were first called “Christians” at Antioch. Acts 11:26, “And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.” So, the official meaning of a “Christian” is a born again sinner who is following Jesus as one of His loyal disciples.

However, that is not the accepted modern meaning of the word among the saints. When we speak of a “Christian” we mean someone who has been born again by the Holy Spirit of God in response to one's faith in the Gospel, regardless if they are a disciple or not. I hope you do realize that it is possible to have faith in Christ without following Him as a disciple. I humbly think Pastor M. R. Dehaan (1891-1965) said it best...

"There is a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer, while coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer one accepts the invitation of the Gospel, to be a disciple one obeys the challenge to a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ; discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to His call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation can't be lost because it depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship can be lost because it depends upon our faithfulness." —Pastor M.R. DeHaan, “Hebrews”; Zondervan Publishing House; 1959 (p. 117)

Now that we've got those preliminaries out of the way, let's go to the purpose of this article.

False Christianity Exists Everywhere

Tragically, nearly everyone considers Roman Catholics to be “Christian,” but in reality Catholicism is the biggest false religion on the planet. From the cradle to the casket, Catholics do religion right. I said “religion,” not Christianity. Satan is a beautiful liar. The Devil's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. There is nothing taught in the Bible about “sacraments.” Yet, somehow Catholics managed to pull Seven Sacraments out of God's inspired Word, perverting the Gospel of free grace to include partaking of mandatory manmade rituals and human work to get to Heaven. I tell you with all biblical certainty as a fundamentalist preacher that Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion!

Please don't miss the stern warning in our text passage of Scripture from 2nd Corinthians 11:13-15 that false prophets' “end shall be according to their works.” Since they have never been born again by resting in Christ's finished redemptive work, they will be judged according to their own self-righteous works, and damned to spend eternity in the fires of Hell.

According to the Catholic Herald...

“The global Catholic population is approximately 1.406 billion as of 2025. This makes the Catholic Church the largest Christian denomination in the world.” SOURCE

Dear reader, Catholics are NOT Christians! No one is a born again Christian who trusts in the sacraments, the power of the Catholic church, priests to absolve sins, the confessional booth, et cetera. John 6:47, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” There is nothing in Jesus' words about partaking of sacraments, confessing your sins to a sinful priest in a confessional booth, getting dunked in a baptistry, nor anything else. Manmade religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world. Dear reader, there is no salvation in the Roman or Russian Orthodox Catholic religions. Salvation is of the LORD.

Then there's the Lutheran religion who idolize Martin Luther (1483-1546), a corrupt theologian who taught the damnable heresy of Baptismal Regeneration (aka, Sacramental Salvation) his entire life. If Luther is not burning in the fires of Hell, then God is a liar, because the inspired Holy Bible warns in Galatians 1:6-7, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” The Gospel presented by the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6 (which Paul received directly from Jesus Himself - Galatians 1:12), does NOT include water baptism nor taking communion.

Then there's the demonic Seventh-Day Adventist religion who idolize false prophetess Ellen G. White (1827-1915). SDA's wrongly redefine what “faith” means. Instead of simple trust (reliance), SDA's redefine “faith” to mean fulfilling all the obligations of the Christian life, walking in holiness and obedience to all of God's commandments. As with nearly all false prophets, SDA's deceitfully profess to believe in salvation by grace through faith; but then horribly contradict themselves in their writings...

Faith is not simply looking at a distant, historical Jesus. Rather, it is responding to His invitation to "follow me." That is how I become a disciple. It is by accepting the obligation to live a life of discipleship that faith becomes obedience. Surely this is what Mrs. White meant when she wrote that the faith that leads to salvation "is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. . . . The only faith that will benefit us is that which embraces Him as a personal Saviour" (ibid., p. 347). "To have faith means to find and accept the gospel treasure, with all the obligations which it imposes" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 112) —Jan Paulsen, 'SALVATION BY FAITH'

Heresy! Salvation is not “accepting the obligation to live a life of discipleship.” This negates the gift of God. Romans 4:5 plainly teaches, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” SDA's ignore and disregard Romans 4:5. Salvation is without works of self-righteousness. The man who believes on Christ is saved because his faith is COUNTED for righteousness. I tell you plainly that Seventh-Day Adventism is going straight to the pits of Hell. SDA preaches another gospel.

So, thus far in this article we have excluded Catholics, Lutherans and Seventh-Day Adventists from the list of who is a “Christian.” We should also add the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious cult who deny Jesus' deity. They deny the Godhead (i.e., the Trinity). JW's deny Jesus' bodily resurrection from the dead after He was crucified and buried. JW's falsely teach that Jesus only raised up in spirit. They are NOT Christians!

Then there's the wicked Mormon cult with their bizarre temple beds, magic underwear and Satanic worship rooted in Freemasonry, who preach a counterfeit gospel which requires water baptism, turning away from one's sinful behavior, works and faith in another Jesus who is not God. Mormons are not saved. They are not Christians! So we can add them to our list of pseudo-Christians.

And let us not forget the damnable Lordship Salvation camp today, hellbound Calvinists, who pervert the Gospel of free grace to include following Christ as the supreme “LORD” of your life, serving Jesus, repenting from your sinful ways to walk in holiness from now on, inviting Christ into your life, living a lifestyle of repentance, et cetera.

I humbly think Pastor Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) said it best...

“The Gospel is not a call to repentance, or to amendment of our ways, to make restitution for past sins, or to promise to do better in the future. These things are proper in their place, but they do not constitute the Gospel; for the Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed. Do not make the mistake then of thinking that the Gospel is a call to duty or a call to reformation, a call to better your condition, to behave yourself in a more perfect way than you have been doing in the past …Nor is the Gospel a demand that you give up the world, that you give up your sins, that you break off bad habits, and try to cultivate good ones. You may do all these things, and yet never believe the Gospel and consequently never be saved at all.” —Pastor Harry A. Ironside, from the ministry tract: "What Is The Gospel?"

Also, my ministry friend Michael P. Bowen wrote those doctrinally sound words...

"I am at eternal odds with the false, counterfeit messages of salvation-by-works that are taught from virtually every pulpit today, on every television channel, and on every Christian radio station; however, I am not at eternal odds with the individuals who preach these counterfeit messages. My heart literally goes out to all of them because they simply do not understand Christ’s plan of salvation. They have been lied to by a crafty enemy named Satan, whose sole aim is to take as many people with him to the lake of fire as he can possibly manage to steal away from God using a counterfeit plan of salvation that appears so real, so genuine, and so holy that few ever realize they have been deceived by it. Oh reader, so many of today’s professing Christians who think they are going to heaven when they die are not going to make it to heaven as they had assumed because they’ve been lied to by today’s error-filled gospel messages." —Michael Patrick Bowen, from his book: "I NEVER KNEW YOU," p. 17

I have mentioned several false religions, but I could bring up thousands more false religions. These are the main ones in the United States. No one who adheres to the corrupt teachings of these pseudo-Christian cults is a born again Christian. NONE OF THEM! No one is saved who adds to Christ's finished work of redemption. More people will die and go to Hell someday because they trusted too much to get to Heaven. I believe this is why Jesus warned in Matthew 7:13-15 that only a “few” people will enter into Heaven in eternity (cf. Luke 13:23-24). God's simple plan of salvation is so free and easy that most people pass right over it, like driving through a tiny town without even realizing that you've missed it.

“More people will die and burn in Hell because they're trusting too much!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!”—Pastor Jack Hyles, “Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!”

Oh that well-meaning religious men would stop tampering with the Gospel, and allow the blessed Holy Spirit to do His work of convicting lost sinners of sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8). It's not our job to pervert the Gospel in a sinful attempt to coerce lost sinners to commit to change their lifestyle as a prerequisite to saving faith. This is exactly why the false teachings of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance exist. NO ONE is saved who is trying to live above sinning to get to Heaven.

When I visited the ungodly corrupt Family Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2021 for their annual church revival, they invited 'The Thrift Family' bluegrass Gospel group from Texas to perform. On Sunday the wife of Jonathan Thrift gave her testimony. I sat there numb as I listened to her testify that she is trusting in Lordship Salvation.

She said she had previously thought she was saved, but then after listening to her pastor in Texas, realized she'd never turned away from her sinning. She foolishly said now she no longer lives in sin and knows she's saved. I felt like walking out of the revival. That is the dung theology taught at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. The church's ungodly senior pastor, Bobby Moffett, preaches the demonic lie that you must “repent of your sins” to be saved, a false teaching that is nowhere found in the inspired King James Bible.

Dear reader, if you think you are saved because you have turned away from a lifestyle of sinning, you are NOT saved. Every false religion that I have mentioned in this article falsely teaches that you must turn away from your sinful behavior to get to Heaven. Let's take Mormons for example...

"To repent we need to recognize and feel sorry for what we’ve done wrong, do whatever is possible to repair the damage it may have caused, and to leave our sinful behavior behind. Repentance can be difficult and requires a lot of honesty, but the joy and freedom we feel when we turn away from our sins are well worth the effort. Because Christ suffered for our sins, we can be forgiven when we repent. That’s why the Atonement is so important to all of us."

SOURCE: Jesus Christ | Mormon.org

HERESY! Notice that Mormons say “repentance can be difficult,” just as Dr. John MacArthur (1939-2025) teaches in his toxic book titled “HARD TO BELIEVE.” In sharp contrast, the Bible teaches 2nd Corinthians 11:3, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST.” The Bible teaches that salvation is simple in Christ. Mormons preach ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER GOSPEL AND ANOTHER SPIRIT that are all of the Devil.

I could likewise show you similar quotes from every false religion I have mentioned in this blog. Only the inspired King James Bible teaches a free grace Gospel without works. Man in his inherent sinful carnal pride has always felt compelled to add, embellish and tamper with God's simple plan of salvation, requiring MORE than simple childlike faith in the crucifixtion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Most pseudo-Christian cults hypocritically claim to believe in salvation by grace through faith, but then they subtly add works to pervert God's grace.

False Christianity exists everywhere today! Tragically, ninety-nine percent of professed Christians are not saved. They are all hellbound in their sins of false religion, pride and self-righteousness. They call Jesus “Lord, Lord,” but they are not His sheep (Matthew 7:21-23).

When I used to live in Chicago before 2004, I used to enjoy reading the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. They had a daily section which displayed something called “Magic Eye.” If you placed your eyes close to the image and then slowly backed away while staring through it, you'd see a floating object in 3D in the foreground. It was surreal. I loved it! But for whatever reason, perhaps colorblind, some people never could see the hidden image. And also, Magic Eye doesn't work as well online as it does when printed.

I realized a few years ago that the Gospel is just like Magic Eye. That is, you can look at religion your entire life without seeing the true Gospel. Literally billions of people on the planet spend their entire lives delving into religion (as did George Harrison of The Beatles), and yet never come to the saving knowledge of the truth by faith in Christ. 2nd Timothy 3:7, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Dear reader, the $64,000 question is: Have you been born again?