Please guard your heart; those around us suppress truth in many ways. Some are obvious as they speak about Christ and/or our hope in him disparagingly. (
2 Pet 3:3-7) But more often, and more dangerous, are those who replace Jesus's teachings with
lies. Asserting they are wise, (
Rom 1:18-32) they establish doctrines and rules of conduct, following and glorifying their own doctrine (
John 5:39-44) instead of simply directing people to read the words of Jesus for themselves. (
Matthew,
Mark,
Luke and
John) Satan has raised up a whole nest (
Mat 3:7-12) of
churches and
religious sects to mislead people by their created doctrines. (
Mat 15:3-9;
John 5:41-44) You must be careful you are not misleading others by being caught up in one of them. For Christians, Christ is their only leader and his teachings their only doctrine... (
Mat 23:1-15)