The answer from God’s word:
“What are the most basic principles for seeking the true way? You need to see whether this way has the working of the Holy Spirit, and whether there is the truth expressed in these words, whom they testify, and what they can bring to you. To discern whether a way is the true way or a false way, you have to have the common knowledge of several aspects. The most basic common knowledge is to see whether it has the working of the Holy Spirit. This is because the substance of people’s believing in God is actually believing in God’s Spirit. Even though they believe in God’s incarnated flesh, it is because this flesh is the embodiment of God’s Spirit. That is to say, such believing is still believing in the Spirit. The Spirit and the flesh are different, but because this flesh is from the Spirit and is the flesh the Word becomes, what they believe in is still God’s original substance. So, to discern whether a way is the true way, first you need to see whether it has the working of the Holy Spirit, and second you should see whether this way has the truth. The truth means the life disposition of the normal humanity, which is what God required of man when he first created man, that is, all the normal humanity (including human sense, insight, wisdom, and the common sense in conducting oneself). That is, you need to see whether this way leads people into the normal human living, whether the truth expressed in it is required of man according to the reality of the normal humanity, and whether the truth is realistic, practical, and most timely. If it has the truth, it can lead people into the normal and practical experiences, and people will become more and more normal, their human sense will become more and more complete, their physical living and spiritual living will become more and more regulated, and their feelings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, and joy will become more and more normal. This is the second aspect. The third aspect is to see whether people will have more and more knowledge of God and through experiencing such work and truth whether their heart of loving God can be stirred up and they can have a closer and closer relationship with God. By these you will be able to judge whether it is the true way. The most basic is whether this way is realistic and not supernatural and whether it can be man’s life supply. If a way meets these several conditions, it can be concluded that it is the true way.If a work is the work of the Holy Spirit, it will cause people to become more and more normal, cause their humanity to become more and more normal, and cause them to have more and more knowledge of the corrupt satanic disposition and man’s essence and to become more and more thirsty for the truth. That is, their life can grow more and more and their corrupt disposition can be transformed more and more. This is the original meaning of God’s being man’s life. If a way cannot expose the things of people’s essence or transform their disposition, much less bring them before God or cause them to have a true knowledge of God, and even causes their humanity to become lower and lower and their sense to become more and more abnormal, then it is not the true way. It may be the work of an evil spirit or an old way. In any case, it is not the present work of the Holy Spirit. … If you can grasp these several key points, you will not be deceived under any circumstances.”
from “Only Those Who Know God and God’s Work Are the Ones God Is Satisfied With”in The Word Appears in the Flesh
