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[Matthew]
{7:15} Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Christ was warning us not only about false prophets and false prophecies, but also about false teachers and false teachings. There are many false teachers outside the Church. For example, secular society teaches many falsehoods on morality. And there are false teachers among Protestants, in particular, those Protestants who try to teach Catholics in order to convert them to their erroneous way of thinking.
But the most dangerous of the false teachers are those in sheep’s clothing, those who present themselves as good Catholics, but who are openly and directly presenting teachings contrary to the teaching of Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium. The faithful are much more easily led astray when a fellow Catholic teaches them falsehoods than when a non-Catholic does so.
There are many persons on the internet who are false teachers, who are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Be careful whom you accept as a teacher. Many times I’ve read postings in this and other discussion groups, and in other sources online, in which a Catholic is presenting serious doctrinal errors as if this were the teaching of the Church. Such persons tend to be uncorrectable. No theological argument, and no quotations from magisterial documents carries any weight with them. They can re-interpret any source of teaching to their own ends.
And many times I’ve been grieved to see these false teachers succeed to convince some well-meaning but poorly-informed fellow Catholics of their false teachings. And this occurs even to the extent of teaching heresy and other doctrinal errors in opposition to the clear and definitive teachings of the Catholic Faith.
St. Paul experienced these wolves in sheep’s clothing in his ministry.
[Galatians]
{1:9} Just as we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone has preached a gospel to you, other than that which you have received, let him be anathema.
[1 Timothy]
{1:5} Now the goal of instruction is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
{1:6} Certain persons, wandering away from these things, have been turned aside to empty babbling,
{1:7} desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.
[Titus]
{3:10} Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,
{3:11} knowing that one who is like this has been subverted, and that he offends; for he has been condemned by his own judgment.
[2 Corinthians]
{11:13} For false apostles, such as these deceitful workers, are presenting themselves as if they were Apostles of Christ.
So I say to the readers of these posts, beware of false teachers. There are many faithful Catholics from whom you can learn various teachings of the Faith online. But there are also many who would lead you astray.
{7:15} Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Christ was warning us not only about false prophets and false prophecies, but also about false teachers and false teachings. There are many false teachers outside the Church. For example, secular society teaches many falsehoods on morality. And there are false teachers among Protestants, in particular, those Protestants who try to teach Catholics in order to convert them to their erroneous way of thinking.
But the most dangerous of the false teachers are those in sheep’s clothing, those who present themselves as good Catholics, but who are openly and directly presenting teachings contrary to the teaching of Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium. The faithful are much more easily led astray when a fellow Catholic teaches them falsehoods than when a non-Catholic does so.
There are many persons on the internet who are false teachers, who are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Be careful whom you accept as a teacher. Many times I’ve read postings in this and other discussion groups, and in other sources online, in which a Catholic is presenting serious doctrinal errors as if this were the teaching of the Church. Such persons tend to be uncorrectable. No theological argument, and no quotations from magisterial documents carries any weight with them. They can re-interpret any source of teaching to their own ends.
And many times I’ve been grieved to see these false teachers succeed to convince some well-meaning but poorly-informed fellow Catholics of their false teachings. And this occurs even to the extent of teaching heresy and other doctrinal errors in opposition to the clear and definitive teachings of the Catholic Faith.
St. Paul experienced these wolves in sheep’s clothing in his ministry.
[Galatians]
{1:9} Just as we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone has preached a gospel to you, other than that which you have received, let him be anathema.
[1 Timothy]
{1:5} Now the goal of instruction is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
{1:6} Certain persons, wandering away from these things, have been turned aside to empty babbling,
{1:7} desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.
[Titus]
{3:10} Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,
{3:11} knowing that one who is like this has been subverted, and that he offends; for he has been condemned by his own judgment.
[2 Corinthians]
{11:13} For false apostles, such as these deceitful workers, are presenting themselves as if they were Apostles of Christ.
So I say to the readers of these posts, beware of false teachers. There are many faithful Catholics from whom you can learn various teachings of the Faith online. But there are also many who would lead you astray.