How To Spot a False Teacher
“Sound teaching strengthens, while sick teaching weakens…sick teaching leads to sick holiness.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sick Teaching, Sick Holiness
Gordon Fee argues that the primary purpose of Paul’s Pastoral Epistles is not to establish church order or provide a “church manual” for church governance. Rather, Paul’s purpose in writing to Timothy is to thwart the false teachers that have gained sway in the house churches of Ephesus.
Paul can hardly go a chapter without writing about sound teaching/doctrine. The Greek word for “sound” that Paul uses is hygiano. Timothy is to devote himself to…
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