2 Peter 2:1 · World English Bible
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Damage to the faith comes from inside, and it arrives politely. False teaching is smuggled in beside true teaching, by people the community already trusts, which is why it works.
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Damage to the faith comes from inside, and it arrives politely. False teaching is smuggled in beside true teaching, by people the community already trusts, which is why it works.
What makes a wrong teaching deadly is not that it fails a test on paper. It cancels the One who paid for the person holding it, and a lie about who Christ is becomes a lie about what a human being can become. Guarding right teaching is therefore medicine rather than a taste for argument, and it is needed most where everyone assumes they are safe.
Orthodox lens
What have I believed for years simply because the person who told me was someone I liked?
Do not accept a teaching because a respected person said it, or because it is written down, or because everyone around you repeats it. Test it against what it actually does to a life.
The things that flatter you and the people who agree with you are worth more suspicion than your critics. Ask what any opinion is really doing inside you before you let it settle.
Find yourself a teacher and acquire a companion, because no one judges his own thinking clearly. What you cannot see in yourself, another person can.
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