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The claim that every person will finally be saved through Christ, with or without repentance and faith, contradicts Scripture’s conditions of salvation and its final distinction between eternal life and everlasting punishment.
The claim that the Holy Ghost is the Gnostic goddess Sophia, or that personified Wisdom reveals a feminine deity within the Godhead, imports occult mythology into Scripture and contradicts the Spirit’s revealed identity and mission.
The claim that baptism regenerates, justifies, or makes an infant a Christian apart from personal repentance and faith reverses the apostolic pattern in which people hear the gospel, believe in Christ, and then receive baptism.
The promise of a gospel-produced golden age before Christ returns conflicts with the apostasy, Antichrist, persecution, and tribulation Scripture places before His appearing.
The claim that post-death purification or temporal punishment remains for the justified, and can be reduced by indulgences or works of the living, conflicts with Christ’s once-for-all offering and Scripture’s order of death and judgment.
Prayer to Mary and departed saints, and reliance on their heavenly merits or mediation, goes beyond the apostolic pattern and compromises the unique, sufficient mediation and intercession of Jesus Christ.
The teaching that faith, giving, or positive confession guarantees wealth, health, comfort, or worldly success distorts biblical blessing and contradicts Christ’s call to contentment, self-denial, stewardship, and faithful endurance in suffering.
Requiring Gentile Christians to keep Mosaic covenant ordinances for justification, salvation, or full covenant standing contradicts the Jerusalem council and the New Testament gospel of righteousness through faith in Christ.