Below are quotations about false teachers from the writings of the church fathers. The first few centuries were a delicate time for Christian theology. As the Gospel spread out from Jerusalem, many false teachers and heretical ideas began trying to infiltrate. Consequently, these “wolves in sheep’s clothing” were a major concern for church leaders.
The Apostolic Fathers
Polycarp to the Philippians
“For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;” and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan. Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from the beginning
Chapter 7
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