If someone is a Mormon, or a JW, or a Calvinist.
Why is that?
Its because these cults, have clever lies.. they use clever lies against you..... that are Satanic.
How does the DEVIL Lie, using a Cult......like those?
He simply mixes some truth with some lies, and that always sounds true, unless the person hearing it, is trained to recognize HERESY.
How do you become Trained?
The best way is to listen to someone who is... and they can protect you.., until you do what Hebrews 13:9, says to do with your heart... or the rest of the verse, will come upon you.....and there is no avoiding it.
The reason people get deceived is primarily because they don't actually seek Jesus Christ and what He has to say to them, like the Bible explains!
We tend to lean on our own understanding instead of actually seeking Him. Mormon do that, the Jehovah Witness absolutely don't seek Jesus Christ, and it seems to me the John Calvin did seek Jesus Christ and got some information, but many who went after his teachings did that instead of actually seeking the Lord and listening to Him. And so we find that Christians also do that very thing. I too often lean on my own understanding instead of actually seeking the Lord Jesus Christ also. I confess that I only hear that small voice of His about a dozen different times a day.
And anyone writing the best way to become trained is to listen to someone who is, is only correct if in fact that meant "Jesus Christ" by writing "to listen to someone who is"! He is the One who is trained up at the Word of God and our Lord God who speaks to us via His Holy Spirit. But that is not really what you meant by writing, "The best way is to listen to someone who is", because you followed it up by writing, "they can protect you."
And indeed, "HERESY" is pointing other people to other people instead of Jesus Christ, or have you not read:
Jn 5:41 “I do not receive glory from men;
"So how does the devil lie?" - you ask?
By speaking to our spirit, of course. For anyone to lie they have to speak. Satan is a spirit, and just a single spirit, thought he leads a huge rebellion. And whenever he speaks he speaks a lie because that is his nature. So when that snake said:
Gen 3:1 ....And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said
He was lying! Of course God had said and even he knew it. But to bring doubt into the woman's life (as opposed to belief), that snake said, "Indeed, has God said". And so consider who is telling you to lean on what other people say instead of listening to the Lord our God who speaks to His sheep? Have you not read:
Is 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
But we have gone over this before, havn't we?
As for me, I have instructions from the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, to get people to listen to Him. That doesn't mean you can't or should listen to people. That is called peaching the Word of God, because His name is called "The Word of God", because He has the words of His Father for us. And His Holy Spirit get those words from Him and gives them to our spirit! But the unbelieve says they will seek after men, instead of the Lord. Or have you not read:
Ex 20:19 Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”
The Israelites, when brought to the mountain of God to listen to God, did not want to listen to Him, they wanted to listen to a man, Moses, instead of the Lord. So when Jesus said:
Jn 5:41 “I do not receive glory from men;
He was even referring to the men who wrote the Scriptures!! Of did you not read the verses right before He said that?
Jn 5:39-42 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
“I do not receive glory from men;
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
The fact is, that if anyone actually loves the Lord our God then they will actually seek to hear from Him personally! He is always with you/us. So by the Israelites saying to Moses, " “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us..." it showed they did not love God!!! As so does pointing other people to other people, instead of the Lord our God. If you loved the people, and the Lord our God Jesus Christ, then you would point them to Him. Who is wiser, than He. Who has the words of God other than He? Who is love, is not God love?
But Satan, and those under him don't have the love on God in them, so they point other away from Jesus Christ! Have you not read:
1 Co 3:4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
or
1 Cor 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
Still we find people pointing to other people instead of to the Lord our God, Jesus Christ!
Jn 5: 43-47 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
“How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
“Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
“But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
It doesn't really matter "If someone is a Mormon, or a JW, or a Calvinist.", or even a Christian or not, but it does matter if a person actually seeks Jesus Christ and listen to Him by faith or not!!
I am not saying those group tell others what I just explained, any more than many Christian do. They don't from what I have seen. Never-the-less there is something written about every tribe and every nation. Many are going to be surprise as to who makes it and who doesn't. And sad are the many who will tell Him all they did in His name, but will hear Him tell them that He never knew them!
Mat 7: 21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
So again, "How does the DEVIL Lie, using a Cult......like those?" The answer is that he speaks you like he spoke to Eve saying, "Indeed, has God said." So stop worrying so much about how he lies to other, and start considering the battle that takes place in you! Have you not even read:
Eph 6:12,13 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
See the "so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil"? So why are you thinking the devil is lying to " a Mormon, or a JW, or a Calvinist", but not you?
The Lord once told me:
TWO MEN WERE WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, ONE TRIPED OVER SOMETHING HE DIDN’T SEE, THE OTHER DIDN’T BECAUSE HE WAS PAYING ATTENTION.