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“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit…” — Colossians 2:8 (KJV)There’s a world of difference between being religious and being Biblical.Religion can be molded to fit a man’s opinions. The Bible cannot.When you’re Biblical, you take God’s Word as it stands — literal, plain, authoritative — even when it confronts your pride or exposes your sin. Truth isn’t meant to cushion you; it’s meant to correct you.But when a person leans on philosophy, he bends God’s law to suit his own lifestyle. He forces Scripture to bow to his circumstances instead of bringing his circumstances under Scripture. Philosophy becomes the tool he uses to justify what God has condemned.That’s when sin becomes “reasonable.”That’s when conviction gets replaced with excuses.That’s when sorrow replaces repentance, but produces no change.And Scripture warns exactly where that road leads: vain deceit. Once a person welcomes deceit, self-deception follows close behind. They cannot see their own fall because they’ve traded Biblical truth for man-made ideas.Stand guard. Stay rooted. Measure everything by the Book.Anything that pulls you away from Christ — no matter how clever it sounds — is a trap.