Do false teachers know they are false teachers?

[WayneB]

Wayne; Pretty nicely summed up

Thank you mate!

Brother Charlie, Brother Eric is another one of those saints I mentioned in an earlier post. Eric lives down under and is one of our senior members. You will enjoy getting to know all these wonderful saints of God if you take the time. You will be blessed!

[WayneB]

Amen, Brother!

t.

Brother Charlie, meet our Brother Ted.

Ted is preserving our freedom, currently serving in the United States Army stationed in Afghanistan. What is special about Ted is he is that he never gets angry. When the posts get hot in the war debate threads, Ted simply prays for reconciliation and peace. Go figure!

Bless you Ted and be safe brother,

Wayne

[Nebuchadnezza10]

This really does come down to false teaching or false teacher.

Romans 16

17I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.

Here there are two different kinds of people. The deceiver and the deceived. The deceived does not necessarily know that they are being deceived otherwise they would not be in that situation. Their own ignorance has led them astray. This does not make them a false teacher but a person teaching falsely if they go on and teach what they have been taught.

However if this person has been shown the truth and still goes on teaching what they were wrongly taught then they themselves have taken on the deceitful nature of their predecessors.

Furthermore, this does not mean that you should tolerate false teachings, as they chose to accept the teachings of the also teacher even if it was in ignorance.

Hope this all makes sense.

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[Russell]

I have learned you can not view people of other religions as deceivers but simply deceived even as we were when we were lost.

[WayneB]

Russell,

I pretty much covered the triune Godhead in my previous posts and will leave my words stand as is, especially since this is a thread on

[ted]

Thanks for the plug, Brother Wayne. But, if you go back to my earlier posts in the War on Terrorism threads, you'll find plenty of nasty stuff written by me. OA, 'Smash, and myself used to go at it pretty bad. I actually had to stop going to those threads for awhile and examine myself under God's care. I have changed the tone of my posts since then and I hope it makes a difference.

Love in Him,

Stay strong and pray for all of us here on this board.

t.

PS nice to meet you, Brother Charlie. (here's an e-handshake!)

[WayneB]

Thanks for the plug, Brother Wayne. But, if you go back to my earlier posts in the War on Terrorism threads, you'll find plenty of nasty stuff written by me. OA, 'Smash, and myself used to go at it pretty bad. I actually had to stop going to those threads for awhile and examine myself under God's care. I have changed the tone of my posts since then and I hope it makes a difference.

Love in Him,

Stay strong and pray for all of us here on this board.

t.

PS nice to meet you, Brother Charlie. (here's an e-handshake!)

Proves spiritual Growth buddy. Your fighting must have been before my time!

We all need to back away sometimes and examine ourselves under God's care.

I imagine if we stayed at the foot of the Cross, we wouldn't have much energy to fight all the time.

Bless you and be safe brother,

Wayne