Is there a Fox Nearby?
Identify those that would
lead you astray
How Parents Can Discern Healthy Teaching
and Safe Environments
1 Corinthians 5:12
Christians should care about false teachers because the New Testament tells us to watch out for them, to identify them, and to correct them.
The New Testament tells us these things because false teaching is dangerous, leading people away from God instead of toward Him.
In fact, there is far more false teaching today than in the 1st century.
False teachers distort what Jesus taught.
John 8:31-32: If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
If you don’t know the truth, you can’t be free, so – logically – people who believe a lie are being kept in bondage.
Good theology makes trusting God easier, and bad theology makes trusting God harder.
There’s no hypocrisy in pointing out false teachers. Nearly every book in the New Testament does this, and that’s the standard by which we should judge.
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from among you.”
Every Christian should, at some point, become mature enough to spot the errors of false teachers.
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