The effects of false teaching

Its interesting to have a reaction to the regulating of teaching. The moment that we say that the church is to be regulated by the word of God then there is a reaction to us being too dogmatic. And i know that you like certain teachers. So that you would defend that teacher because they have a certain appeal in their presentation. And there is some truth in saying that you dont agree with all of the persons teaching. And i am sure that there is a balance between the charisma of a person and the teaching. So that some people are attracted to a teacher not for some of the teaching but how a person is effected by that teaching. So that to focus on being dogmatic about the proper way to teach may be a form of legalism.

But every student of the word of God is faced with the danger of accepting something first in the understanding that is not accurate and then having a disposition formed by that understanding. We are not important in the sense of our personal likes and dislikes about what we think is the standard of truth. But at the same time it matters how we are treated as a student under the teacher. So we are important. But we need to see that there is a difference between the balance between how a certain teaching brings on the desired effect to bring on the proper choices, and the evidence of a life of holiness toward others. That is having faith and living it out. I am not sure this is a balance but there is a progression here. Since teaching is not just an intellectual effect , but it is of a spiritual nature. Since the effect of teaching in a spiritual sense is the cause of our choices, then we can say that bad teaching causes a spiritual sickness of the soul that will effect our living it out.So we are forced to be dogmatic so that we will have the full effects of the spiritual conversion in our desires in order to walk in a manner worthy, that is choosing what is best according to the nature of the dogmatic desire. Which is the strongest desire.

If we think that our choices determine our living it out before men, then there will be a mechanical element to our performance. It would be short sited to not acknowledge the powerful effects of all of the workings of the word of God and the Spirit of God in focusing on the origins by the willing effects in that conversion experience. To say that there is a balance between faith and works may be to avoid a dogma of acknowledging the effects of the means in coming to a proper choice. The dogma of this is that we are in a spiritual understanding of the frames of mind by the spiritual dogma according to the teaching. So that we know that the sickness of a person according to the teaching is a lack of understanding by the effects of the spiritual power in the desire. Thats why accurate teaching is of a nature of its own conversion effects on the soul. If we just focus on the balance between faith and works then we may be creating a mechanical faith.