How to protect yourself against heresy - a basic list

Have you ever wondered what the basics are to protect yourself from heresy?

a) Study the Holy Bible
b) Have contact with the Church
c) Follow Orthodox Study Groups of the Holy Bible
d) Do not accept heretics into your home
e) Do not read heretical material
f) Enlighten your fellow man

a) Study the Holy Bible

Col 3:16 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."

b) Have contact with the Church

Acts 2:46-47 "So continuing daily with one accord in the temple ..."

c) Follow Orthodox Study Groups of the Holy Bible

Heb 10:24-25 "And let us consider one another ... not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some ..."

d) Do not accept heretics into your home

2 John 10 "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him."

e) Do not read heretical material

1 Tim 4:13 "Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine."

f) Enlighten your fellow man

1 Tim 4:6 "If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed."

There is much more ...

Fasting is mentioned ...

In the Old Testament:

" ... and they fasted that day, ..." 1 Sam 7:6
" ... and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening." 2 Sam 1:12
" ... and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah." 2 Chron 20:3
" ... Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava." Ezra 8:21
" ... I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven." Nehem 1:4
" ... the children of Israel were assembled with fasting." Nehem 9:1

My knees are weak through fasting (Psalm 109:24)

" ... So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast." Jonah 3:5
" ... Blow the trumpet in Zion Consecrate a fast Call a sacred assembly." Joel 2:15
" ... When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months ..." Zech 7:5
" ... Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth ..." Zech 8:19

In the New Testament

" ... And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He was hungry." Matt 4:2
" ... Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, ..." Matt 6:16
" ... But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast." Matt 9:14-15
" ... Then, having fasted and prayed..." Acts 13:2-3
" ... and prayed with fasting, they commanded them to the Lord in whom they had believed." Acts 14:23
" ... that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer..." 1 Cor 7:5