Linny – I do not know if these scriptures answer your question directly.
"If you abide in My Word, hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" John 8:31,32
There are still many false disciples pretending to preach the truth.
"Come out from among them, and separate, sever yourselves from them, touch not any unclean things" (2 Cor. 6:17)
This, too me, is what many people are doing on this forum, separating themselves from churches that do not preach the truth.
"Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery, which you once put off" (Gal. 5:1)
Do not be a slave to false teachings or to the teachers themselves.
"No-one who put his hand to the plow and looks back to the things behind, is fit for the Kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62)[/i]
This, to me, is why I can not go back to any mainstream Christian churches, once I have started down this road knowing the truth, I can never look back and long for the "bad old days".
"How can you live in sin any longer?" (Rom. 6:2)
If one really knows the truth can they keep sinning and still live with themselves?
Unfortunately the answer is yes they can. Do some preachers, pastors, clergy know the truth and still repeat the same old lies? Yes because many of them are unwilling to give up the lifestyle that they have grown accustomed too.
Can you imagine any of the religious leaders of the Mega churches telling their congregations that they should stop tithing because it is unscriptural? Hell will sooner freeze over, and since there is no Hell, which they will also not tell their congregations about, the answer is a resounding NO!
I hope this helps,
Seeking to do God's will always,
Douglas