The movie “The Passion of the Christ” was a box-office hit, but Christ wasn’t the actor. It was another person trying to imitate Christ. This has been going on now for almost two thousand years. The fact that there are so many false Christs is astounding. However, Paul addressed it in the early church with the Corinthians.
2 Corinthians 11:3-4
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Paul was saying, “We have a problem here, Houston.”
The only way to be sure that the Christ you received, the Spirit that indwells you and the Gospel you embrace are the right ones is to check out the Scriptures.
Give it some careful consideration. There’s too much at stake to fall prey to the father of lies.
Gary