Discernment Between Truth and Error

辨析真理与谬误

God’s children are able to discern false doctrine.

上帝的儿女可以分辨错误的教义。

A sure mark of every false religious system is doctrinal error, particularly about the Person and work of Jesus Christ. Those systems deny that He is Savior and Lord, God in human flesh, the only way to the Father (John 14:6) because salvation comes only through Him (Acts 4:12).

每个错误的宗教体系的标志就是谬误教义，特别是关于耶稣基督的人性和事工。那些体系否认耶稣是救主和主、道成肉身、与父神连接的唯一道路（约翰福音14：6），因为只有藉着祂才能得救（使徒行传4：12）。

A sure mark, then, of all true children of God is that they believe the truth about Jesus Christ and do not deviate into doctrinal error. Although they may be temporarily duped by false teaching, they will not be permanently deceived by it. The apostle John wrote, “[False teachers] are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:5-6).

而上帝真正儿女的标志是他们相信耶稣基督的真理，并不被错误的教义迷惑。虽然有时被短暂地被假教导欺骗，却不会长久地被蒙蔽。使徒约翰写道“（假师傅）是属世界的，所以论世界的事，世人也听从他们。我们是属 神的，认识 神的就听从我们；不属 神的就不听从我们。从此我们可以认出真理的灵和谬妄的灵来”（约翰一书4：5-6）。

When you were saved, you were clear about who Christ was. “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ,” writes John, “is born of God” (1 John 5:1). Had you not passed that doctrinal test, you wouldn’t have been saved. God’s children distinguish spiritual truth from doctrinal error because the Spirit of truth (John 14:16) indwells them.

你若得救，你就清楚知道基督是是谁。“凡信耶稣是基督的，都是从 神而生”约翰写道（约翰一书5：1）。如果你没有通过教义考试，你就没有得救。上帝的孩子可以分辨属灵真理和谬误教义，因为有真理的圣灵住在他们里面（约翰福音14：16）。

“O Timothy,” Paul exhorted his beloved son in the faith, “guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’” (1 Tim. 6:20). I pray that you will guard the precious treasure of truth entrusted to you in the Scriptures and so assure your heart that you belong to the God of truth.

“提摩太啊，”保罗嘱咐他所爱的属灵儿子“你要保守所托付你的，躲避世俗的虚谈和那敌真道、似是而非的学问”（提摩太前书6：20）。我祈求你能保守圣经中赐给你的真理的宝贵财富，保证你的心属于真理的上帝。