Found on some Calvinist/reformist website somewhere:
It seems like a doctrinally sound teacher is simply a teacher the memewriter likes. Or maybe it's a sliding scale. A teacher can get one or two things wrong and that's fine. Maybe that's a "rounding error" for the 100% standard. So how much error is too much? Unknown.
With such uncertainty, it seems we should not listen to any teaching.
Why? Because no one has perfect doctrine. No one. Therefore, everyone's doctrine has some bones. Every pastor's teaching has some bones. The greatest theologians in the world have some bones. The memewriter's favorite teachers have some bones.
And, the memewriter has some bones.
He rejects the idea of eating the meat and spitting out the bones, yet that is the only choice we're faced with. In actual fact, Christians are supposed to grow and mature in discernment, which by definition means recognizing and separating the good and valuable from the unspiritual and false.
Further, those who would say "eat the meat and spit out the bones" are not actually referring ro false teaching - i.e. truth mixed with intentional lies. This is how the memewriter characterizes it, but there is also truth mixed with mistakes, truth mixed with immature teaching, truth mixed with bad teaching, and truth mixed with uniformed teaching.
Not all incorrect teaching is malicious, but the memewriter presumes that there must be a false teacher in the equation, simply because someone's doctrine might vary from his doctrine.
The Scriptures have a unambiguous standard regarding what is a false teacher. It's found in 2 Peter chapter 2. A false teacher is an egregious and public sinner. He is actively malevolent. A false teacher is recognized by his lifestyle of excess and total disregard for holiness, teaching gross falsehood.
Which of course means that the memewriter's premise is absurd. But more importantly, there is no biblical call for absolute purity, no fruit that can be born from such a pursuit, and no real endgame for it, since a person can always get just a little more pure in their doctrines. Further, there is no Bible verse that commends a person for their total doctrinal purity.
There is little benefit in such an approach. In fact, it's cultic thinking.
Further, those who would say "eat the meat and spit out the bones" are not actually referring ro false teaching - i.e. truth mixed with intentional lies. This is how the memewriter characterizes it, but there is also truth mixed with mistakes, truth mixed with immature teaching, truth mixed with bad teaching, and truth mixed with uniformed teaching.
Not all incorrect teaching is malicious, but the memewriter presumes that there must be a false teacher in the equation, simply because someone's doctrine might vary from his doctrine.
The Scriptures have a unambiguous standard regarding what is a false teacher. It's found in 2 Peter chapter 2. A false teacher is an egregious and public sinner. He is actively malevolent. A false teacher is recognized by his lifestyle of excess and total disregard for holiness, teaching gross falsehood.
Which of course means that the memewriter's premise is absurd. But more importantly, there is no biblical call for absolute purity, no fruit that can be born from such a pursuit, and no real endgame for it, since a person can always get just a little more pure in their doctrines. Further, there is no Bible verse that commends a person for their total doctrinal purity.
There is little benefit in such an approach. In fact, it's cultic thinking.
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