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C. The Jehovah's Witnesses

By Protopresbyter Fr. Basil Georgopoulos.

Assistant Professr of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki

The sect of Jehovah's Witnesses is unprecedented in world history for the breadth and number of its strange and anti-scriptural eschatological cacodoxies, as well as the number of false prophecies regarding the end of the world.

The basic teachings of the heretical eschatology of the Jehovah's Witnesses are the following:

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C. The Seventh Day Adventists

By Protopresbyter Fr. Basil Georgopoulos.

Assistant Professr of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki

Adventism is a Protestant teaching with an eschatological character and chiliastic direction, which emerged and developed in the United States in the 19th century, in response to the high expectations that existed in American Protestantism in the first half of the 19th century for the Second Coming of Christ.

The founder of Adventism was the farmer William Miller (1782-1849), who later became a Baptist pastor. Under the enthusiastic eschatological expectations of Protestant offshoots of his time in the United States he began to study Holy Scripture with an emphasis on prophecies.

What a Spiritual Father from Sinai Says About the "Prophecies" of St. Paisios

...But there is something we should highlight.

Lately, in the last few years and last few months, with advertising on television and elsewhere and certain newspapers, not a day passes where you don't hear about Saint Paisios or Elder Paisios or Father Paisios, etc. All that is heard is not according to God.

Profiteers have taken these things and placed them next to obscene magazines at newspaper stands. But we know why they do it and here we will respond.

They know that it is of interest to people.

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B. The Evangelicals

By Protopresbyter Fr. Basil Georgopoulos.

Assistant Professr of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki

Evangelicals are an important versatile and non-denominational movement of the modern conservative Protestant world that emerged after World War 2. They compete against Pentecostals in their numerical increase and do not lack heretical positions on the End Times. Basic eschatological heresies, despite a partial differentiation of various movements, that must be considered are:

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A. The Pentecostals

By Protopresbyter Fr. Basil Georgopoulos.

Assistant Professr of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki

Heretical teachings about the Second Coming and the events surrounding it, already are attested from apostolic times. The Apostle Paul in his Second Epistle to Timothy mentions Hymenaeus and Philetus, who taught "that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some" (2 Tim. 2:17-18).

Heretical positions on the Second Coming, with the events preceding or directly associated with it, have spread in our time and are passionately supported by many of the novel heretical parachristian groups.

In the series of articles that follow, we will present some representations of these heretical positions associated with eschatological teachings of various heretical groups. Eschatology is a place where various heretical groups compete, not only in an unprecedented abuse in interpreting passages of Holy Scripture, but also in the spreading of false prophecies.