How should the CHURCH view the modern deconstructionist /apostates?
2 Peter 2:20-22 (ESV)
^(20) For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
^(21) For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
^(22) What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
1 John 2:19 (ESV)
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
Jude 1:3-4 (ESV)
^(3) Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
^(4) For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:26-31 (ESV)
^(26) For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
^(27) but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
^(28) Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
^(29) How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
^(30) For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
^(31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 6:4-6 (ESV)
^(4) For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
^(5) and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
^(6) and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
Mathew 12:43-45 (ESV)
^(43) “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.
^(44) Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.
^(45) Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”