Police are called to Joel Osteen’s Houston Lakewood Church in response to claims of an ongoing shooting. People took off running for their life. God-fearing men (armed) would have apprehended the gunman long before the Houston Police Department showed up. All those manly men who should have taken out the guns and defended their families are nowhere to be found. Regarding biblical Christianity, what is heresy? Second Peter 2:1 says, “There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.” From this verse, we see that heresy is anything that denies the teaching of Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 11:19, Paul takes the church to task for having heresies among them—heresies that led to schisms in the body. These verses touch on both aspects of what constitutes heresy in the