New revelations

“Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” 2 John 1:9
The Bible clearly tells us the hallmarks of a false teacher: one of them is given here, that they run ahead of the teaching of Christ. These are the people who hold other writings on par with the Bible (for example, the book of Mormon, or the Watchtower publications). They are also the people who say they used to be Christians but now they have been ‘enlightened’. I ran into a debate with some of these people once, who called themselves ‘post-Christian’, and boy did they think they were something special. Only last week I was listening to the radio where the host was interviewing someone who called himself a ‘Christian humanist’. Now there’s a contradiction if I ever heard one. It became quite clear that he had no right to call himself a Christian: he placed Jesus on the same level as Buddha and Mohammed, and said there were many ways to God. When he was challenged on this with John 14:6 – Jesus saying, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’ – he dismissed it, saying he didn’t believe the gospel of John.
As John wrote in his first epistle, “They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us” (1 John 2:19). Anyone who claims to have a ‘new revelation’ from God, concerning some doctrinal truth that is not in the Bible, falls into this category. They are running ahead of the teaching of Christ, whereas true believers will continue to hold fast to what the Bible teaches.