The Bible Study Podcast, episode 82. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of First Timothy.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

I'm going to jump right into First Timothy today,

starting in chapter four. The spirit clearly says in later times some will abandon the faith

and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through

hypocritical liars whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, they forbid people to marry

and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with

thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good,

and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

We don't know exactly what heresies it is that Paul is teaching against to Timothy, but we

certainly know that there have been a variety of heresies that have risen both in biblical days,

in between, and in current days. And he's dealing with basically people who are

following things that are heretical. And heretical means schism is the sort of the root word or a

separation or a branching. And so the idea here is that they've come up with additional things

probably as a requirement to salvation.

And there's certainly examples of this in church history that are, Paul says, unimportant,

they are anti-scriptural, not just unimportant, but contrary to scriptures.

And therefore he is saying they're following deceiving spirits

taught by demons.

There are some cases, for instance, where certain sects in church history have decided that

they would forbid people to marry, and they would, there's certain sex, for instance,

and Paul may be referring to some of these that are coming out of a Greek tradition,

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