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Detecting False Teaching: How Scripture Guards the Flock from Wolves in Theological Clothing

Detecting False Teaching: How Scripture Guards the Flock from Wolves in Theological Clothing

There is something uniquely disorienting about a wolf in shepherd’s clothing. A straightforward atheist, however wrong, is at least honest about where he stands. But a figure who wears the vocabulary of Christian faith—who quotes Scripture, attends seminary, invokes the name of Jesus—while systematically emptying those words of their historic meaning presents a far more subtle danger. The apostle Paul warned the elders of Ephesus with tears: