5 Myths Christians Still Believe!

If I told you that most Christians today believe at least one false thing about God, his law, or the gospel, would you believe me? What if I told you that some of the most popular teachings in the church today directly contradict the Bible? In this video, I'm going to expose the top five myths Christians believe. And the most dangerous part, these myths aren't coming from the world, they're coming from the pulpit. It's time to unlearn the lies. Let's start with one of the biggest myths in modern Christianity. God's law was abolished. This idea teaches that when Jesus died on the cross, he abolished the law of God. But what did Jesus say about that? Matthew 5:17-19 says, "Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill, for surely I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tit will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Fulfill does not mean abolish. In Greek, the word is playoo and it means to fill up or to bring to fullness. Not even one jot or tit means not even the smallest stroke of the pen will pass away from the law until heaven and earth passes away. We know from the book of Revelation that the new heaven and new earth doesn't happen until after the thousand-year reign and the great white throne judgment takes place. Yeshua also said that whoever breaks the least commandment and teaches others to do the same will be least in the kingdom of heaven. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be least in the kingdom. Then he said that whoever does and teaches the commandments will be great in the kingdom. That's my desire. I want to do the things that please my Lord and hear him say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Yeshua obeyed the law and taught others to obey the law, too. The notion that the law has been done away with is actually lawlessness disguised as liberty. The second myth we need to bust is once saved always saved. They say that salvation is a one-time decision and if you just pray a simple prayer, you will secure your eternal salvation. But where's that in the Bible? The danger of once- saved, always saved is that it leads many to complacency, sin, and apostasy. The Bible repeatedly warns believers that salvation can be forfeited through continued unbelief, rebellion, or apostasy. These warnings are not to unbelievers. They're directed at saved individuals, proving that salvation is conditional upon continued faith and obedience. Matthew 24:13 says, "But he who endures to the end shall be saved." Not he who makes a decision or he that prays a prayer, but he who endures to the end will be saved. Salvation is not based on a single moment, but a lifelong walk of faith. Notice it's the future tense being used here, will be saved, implying that it's not complete yet. The final result could still be changed. Yeshua explains that we must abide in him to be saved. John 15:6 says, "If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned." To abide means to remain or to dwell with. If we don't remain in our faith and dwell with our Messiah, we might be cast out by him. Even the Apostle Paul feared being disqualified from salvation. 1 Corinthians 9:27 says, "But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified." Paul recognized the need to persevere in holiness, and he didn't want to do anything that might disqualify him from receiving his eternal reward. That's why he practiced self-discipline. He wanted to make sure his life was submitted in obedience to God. Peter warns us that if we turn back to our old ways after salvation, then it would be worse than if we had never known the Lord. Second Peter 2:20 and 22 says, "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it to turn from the holy commandments delivered to them." He's talking about people who have escaped the world through the knowledge of the Lord. Meaning those who have been saved. He says if those saved people return to their sin, it's worse than never knowing Christ at all. Salvation is a covenant. A covenant requires faithfulness from both parties. God is always faithful. But if we walk away, if we stop believing, stop obeying, and fall back into the ways of the world, we can break the covenant and forfeit our salvation. The Bible speaks about salvation as past tense, present tense, and future tense. We have been saved when we come to faith. We are being saved as we abide in Christ. And we will be saved if we endure to the end. If at any point we stop walking with the Lord, then our salvation is no longer guaranteed. The danger of once saved always saved is that people think they just pray a prayer and they're saved. And many of them continue living like the world. The third myth is probably one you've heard at every funeral. Grandma's in heaven now watching over us. It sounds comforting, but it's not biblical. In fact, Yeshua said that no one has gone to heaven. John 3:13 says, "No one has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven." That is the son of man who is in heaven. Yeshua is the only one who has ever gone to heaven. Because he's the one who came down from heaven. There's not a single verse in the Bible that ever promises we go to heaven. The Bible says, "The dead sleep in the grave until the resurrection when Yeshua raises them from the dead." John 6:40 says, "And this is the will of him who sent me that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up the last day." The hope of the gospel is the resurrection of the dead. It's not about going to heaven when we die. The idea that we go to heaven when we die actually comes from pagan mythology, not from the Bible. Paul explains that when Yeshua returns, the dead will be resurrected. 1 Thessalonians 4:16. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a sound of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Daniel prophesied about two resurrections. One to reward the righteous with everlasting life, and the second to condemn the wicked. Daniel 12:2. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. The Bible even gives a specific example of King David saying that he is still dead and buried and in his grave and he's not yet ascended to heaven. Acts 2:29 says, "Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his tomb is with us to this day. For David did not ascend into the heavens." The Bible never says we go to heaven when we die. The hope of the gospel is eternal life through the resurrection of the dead. Myth number four, the church replaced Israel. This teaching known as replacement theology says that God is done with Israel and that all the promises now belong to the church. However, Paul said the exact opposite in Romans 11. He explains that gentile believers are grafted into the cultivated olive tree known as Israel. He also explains that some branches were broken off because of unbelief and he warns us not to boast against the branches. Romans 11:17-18 says, "And if some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you." Notice that we are grafted in among them and with them. Gentiles don't replace Israel. They're grafted into Israel. God's covenant with Israel wasn't revoked. It was expanded. Listen what the Bible says about the new covenant. Jeremiah 31:31 says, "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with house of Judah." The new covenant is for Israel and Judah. However, the Gentiles are given an opportunity to join with Israel and Judah by being grafted in through faith. The book of Ephesians explains, "We were formerly called Gentiles when we didn't know God." Ephesians 2:1-13 says, "Therefore remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, made in the flesh by hands, that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have now been brought near by the blood of Christ." Next, Paul explains that the wall of separation that kept the Jews and Gentiles apart has been torn down. Ephesians 2:14. For he himself is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation. He concludes his argument by explaining that we who were once strangers from Israel are now fellow citizens with them. Ephesians 2:19. Now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. The church doesn't replace Israel. it joins her. Replacement theology argues that the law was only for Israel, not for the church. But when we understand that the church is grafted into Israel, we start to see things more clearly. This final myth is one that will lead to apostasy in the last days. This teaching is known as the rapture. The belief in a pre-trip rapture is one of the most popular yet most deceptive teachings in modern Christianity. The word rapture comes from a word in the Latin Vulgate found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word used here means caught up, but the context is not about a rapture. Paul is talking about the hope of the resurrection when Yeshua returns. First Thessalonians 4:13 says, "But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words. Paul is giving us hope for the resurrection, saying that we who are alive will be caught up together with the resurrected saints when Yeshua returns. He says, "When this happens, there will be a trumpet from heaven announcing his return and the dead will be raised." The left behind books got their title from Matthew 24 when Yeshua was talking about the judgment in the last days. Matthew 24:37 says, "But as the days of Noah were, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and given a marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the son of man. Two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will be taken and the other left. Watch, therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. Notice that Yeshua compares it with the days of Noah, and the flood took all the unrighteous away. Then he warns about the ones who will be taken away when he returns. He's not talking about the righteous being taken to heaven. He's talking about the wicked being cast into the fire. Just like Noah's flood took all the wicked away. Yeshua told a parable about wheat and tears, explaining the order of events in the last days. Matthew 13:37 says, "He answered and said to them, he who sws the good seed is the son of man. The field is the world. The good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tears are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who swed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age and the reapers are the angels. Therefore, as the tears are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The son of man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and those who practice lawlessness and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and nashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the son in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Notice that the tears are cast out first to be burned before the wheat is gathered into the kingdom. The idea of a preerttrib rapture contradicts the teachings of both Yeshua and the apostles. The timeline we find in scripture is after the tribulation, the trumpet sounds and the dead are resurrected. Matthew 24:29 says, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from the heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven. And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. And they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. The problem with the pre-trip rapture is that it will cause people to fall away in the last days. The parable of the swer actually speaks about this. Matthew 13:20 says, "But he who received the seed on stony places is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. Yet he has no root in himself, but he endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles." These people receive the gospel with joy. But when tribulation arises, they stumble in their faith. Their faith isn't prepared for tribulation because they've been told that they'll be raptured out before the tribulation happens. They ignore the warnings in scripture that tell us we will face tribulation. Yeshua told us about the tribulation so that our faith would remain strong until he returns. He even tells us we can be cheerful about it because we know he has the victory in the end. John 16:33 says, "These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world." So, how many of these myths have you been taught in church? One, two, maybe all five. Let me know in the comments which of these deceptions surprised you the most.