Reading the Bible Decreases the Likelihood of Believing False Teaching.
“God helps those who help themselves”, “Live your truth”, “Follow your heart”, “Good Karma/ Bad Karma”, “My place of Zen”… Although these phrases may seem to be “spiritual”, they ARE NOT scriptural, or according to the Bible. So they are lies!
In fact these phrases are described in the Bible:

“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭14‬:‭12‬ ‭NIV

Not only are they lies, they are deadly to your spiritual life and relationship with God. You cannot mix God’s truth with the world’s lies.
They are False Teaching! With so many ideologies in the world and so many paths a person chooses from to find peace how does a person discern what is truth? The answer to that question is: “Does it line squarely up with scripture?”
Jesus spoke of there being two different foundations one can build their life upon, rock or sand.
The rock is His Word. Building your life on His Word requires “hearing” His Word- reading, studying, memorizing, talking about, etc. And then practicing- obeying and living your life according to His Word.
The sand is the ways of the world around us. We are surrounded by its influence so we hear it, we read about it, we study it, and we talk about it naturally.
It requires a choice to deliberately STOP building on the sand- believing the lies, and go to the Rock, Jesus- the Truth!
There is no middle ground to build upon. We cannot build on Rock and sand and think our house will stand. If we truly know the Bible, we will not embrace false teaching and be deceived with lives left in ruin!

“”Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭24‬-‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬