But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep…

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved. For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. — from 2 Peter 2

Before becoming a Christian, I was delving into all sorts of Eastern religions, which were popular among the youth of my generation. After becoming a Christian and studying the Bible, I rejected those philosophies. The root of them lies in looking inward and expanding our knowledge of ourselves and finding that perfect person in ourselves; the root of Christianity is that we have an inherently corrupt nature which can be redeemed when we look outward to the God who chose to save us.

As Peter says in my Bible reading today, there are false prophets who bring false doctrine into Christian circles and even into the church. Eastern mysticism has been incorporated into personality evaluations used by some Christians and churches, and I have been looking at how this happened.

A Franciscan priest named Richard Rohr is key to this infiltration, apparently. He has deviated from traditional Christian faith; when I looked at the first video clip I found, where he was talking about hell, he made a comment about God, —referring to “him or her ” — which is not a traditional or Biblical view of God.

Rohr founded a “Center Of Contemplation” where I found these current quotes from some of his disciples:

“With the interpretive grid provided by a critique of domination, we are able to filter out the sexism, patriarchalism, violence, and homophobia that are very much a part of the Bible, thus liberating it to reveal to us in fresh ways the inbreaking, in our time, of God’s domination-free order.”

“One of the easiest ways that progressive denominations could ignite interest in the binary-busting aspects of Christian theology would be to free up queer clergy to proclaim the Gospel from an explicitly queer perspective, boldly and honestly.”

My pastor years ago made an illustration regarding defilement. He said if you make a big gallon pot of delicious chili or soup, but you take the smallest bit of fecal material with tweezers and drop it in the pot you’ve defiled and corrupted the whole pot.

A few years ago a security camera caught a teenager urinating into one of the reservoirs that supplies water for Portland, Oregon. Portland dumped 38 million gallons of water out because of that corruption.

“Theology” like that of Rohr and his disciples isn’t a speck of corruption, it’s a whole dump truck of it.

if you read the whole passage In 2nd Peter you’ll find references to angels thrown into hell, fire falling on cities, and floods destroying the earth. We better remember that judgment begins however… At the House of God.