Scammers

by David Long

A scammer is someone who deceives or defrauds. There's a lot of scammers in our society. This virus pandemic as brought out the scammers. There are people selling false drugs, saying they can cure covid-19. There are people scamming people concerning the stimulus money.  What gets me is how easily we fall for such scams. But let's think for a minute about religious scammers. Jesus warned about them (Matt. 7:15). The Bible warns, "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you..." (2 Pet. 2:1-3). What gets me is how easily people fall for religious scammers (false teachers). Like all scams we must put them to the test (1 John 4:1).