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I Timothy 6: 20-21 says in the Tyndale New Testament, "O Timothy save that which is given ye to keep and avoid ungodly vanities of voices and oppositions of science falsely so called
21 which science while some professed they have erred as concerning the faith. Grace be with the Amen."
Tyndale translates γνωσεως, or gnosis, as science, but it should be translated as knowledge.
The key part in Greek says "και αντιθεσεις της ψευδωνυμου γνωσεως,or "and anti-thesis of falsely called knowledge."
αντιθεσεις, or anti-thesis, is a technical term in the early Greek philosophy of the διαλεκτική, or dialectic, before the time of Christ.
In the dialectic, there is a direct opposition between the thesis and the anti-thesis, or a strong division between the thesis and the anti-thesis. In the conflict between the false prophets (Matthew 24: 5, 11, 24, II Peter 2: 1-3) and a small remnant who have a love for the Truth,the false prophets try to overthrow the thesis, which is the Truth of Christ's Gospel, with another Gospel, which in the dialectic is the anti-thesis. The false prophets operate through deception. Deceive is a word which is used of false prophets in Matthew 4,5, 11 and 24.
Two interesting instances of the dialectic in Scripture are in Genesis 3: 1-6 and in the dialogue between Christ and the Pharisees in John Chapter 8.
In Satan's use of the dialectic against Eve in Genesis 3: 2-6, "And the woman said unto the serpent of the fruit of the trees in the garden we may eat
3 but of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden (said God) see that ye eat not and see that ye touch it not: lest ye die.
4 Then said the Serpent unto the woman: trust ye shall not die:
5 But God doth know that whensoever ye should eat of it your eyes should be opened and ye should be as God and know both good and evil."
6 And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of and lusted unto the eyes and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate and gave unto her husband also with her and he ate."
Note that the Serpent is teaching doctrine in direct opposition to that taught by God. Eve said God told them not to eat of the fruit of one tree and if they did so they would die. But the Serpent contradicted this and offered his own doctrine totally different from that of God.
In teaching false doctrine to Eve, the Serpent is the first false prophet. He is also the first user of the dialectic to attempt to overthrow the thesis or Truth of God by an anti-thesis used in a deceptive way.
Look at John 8: 31-33, 44, 52-53, "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him. If ye continue in my word then are ye my very disciples
32 and shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him: We be Abraham's seed and were never bound to any man: why sayest thou then ye shall be made free..............Ye are of your Father the devil and the lusts of your Father ye will follow. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar and the Father therof.............Then said the Jews to him: Now know we that thou hast the devil. Abraham is dead and also the Prophets: and yet thou sayest if a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death.
53 Art thou greater then our father Abraham which is dead? and the Prophets are deed. Whom makest thou thy self?"
The Pharisees were making an argument in direct opposition to what Christ was teaching. They were using the dialectic to try to overthrow the absolute truth of Christ's doctrines by use of an anti-thesis, which was their own doctrines, There were acting in the role of the false prophet.
The pathway to salvation seen in Luke 1: 68-69 is not through arguing in direct opposition to Christ's Gospel, trying to create another Gospel (II Corinthians 11: 4, Galatians 1: 6-9). But the path to salvation is through complete agreement in faith with the doctrines of Christ as the Thesis, spoken in a didactic way and not in the language of the dialectic, involving deception.
To become saved in response to His offer of grace, is to become one with Christ, whose glory is made manifest in the third part of Zechariah 13:9 which is preserved. The Spirit of the Lord inside one leads him or her into unity with Christ, not in direct opposition to his doctrines, which is death.
The third part of Zechariah 13:8-9 is Life and not Death and Hell, as spiritual states. Christ is life itself.
"In him was life; and the life was the light of men." John 1:4
Excellent.
But the dispensationalists will not comprehend your message, for they prove to be spiritless, without life, and blind to the great Truth of Jesus Christ.
Pagans, hiding behind their counterfeit "religion", in order to appear godly in the world and deceive the sons of God if they might.
But they will fail . .