QUESTION: How can one identify those who promote various “isms”?

ANSWER: Each must diligently study God’s Word (II Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 5:12-14) and then by using His Word, try/test the “spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (I John 4:1). Very often (and for many reasons) men learn to rely upon what other men say and teach.

The Holy Spirit tells us that it is less than noble to do so! Each of us must search the scriptures daily to determine whether the things we hear and are taught are so (Acts 17:11). All that is not of God must then be rejected in view of the coming Judgment (John 12:48).