Originally Posted by
FireBrand
The winds of doctrine are blowing.....
Sounds a lot more like fables that distract, deceive and divert our focus away from the Lord...
Fable (Vine's)
muthos (G3454)
primarily signifies "speech, conversation." The first syllable comes from a root mu—, signifying "to close, keep secret, be dumb"; whence, muo, "to close" (eyes, mouth) and musterion, "a secret, a mystery"; hence, "a story, narrative, fable, fiction" (Eng., "myth"). The word is used of gnostic errors and of Jewish and profane fables and genealogies, in 1Ti_1:4; 1Ti_4:7; 2Ti_4:4; Tit_1:14; of fiction, in 2Pe_1:16.
Muthos is to be contrasted with aletheia, "truth," and with logos, "a story, a narrative purporting to set forth facts," e.g., Mat_28:15, a "saying" (i.e., an account, story, in which actually there is a falsification of facts); Luk_5:15, RV, "report."
I Timothy 1:4
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
I Timothy 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
II Timothy 4:4
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Titus 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
II Peter 1:16
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.