There’s a type of false prophet who preaches a laxist, easy way, as if the road to life is broad and the way to perdition is narrow. We see it in the many heresies throughout Church history.
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This issue, this serious responsibility, of knowing how to distinguish between true and false prophets didn’t end with the apostolic age.The Didache summarizes, “Not every one who speaks in the Spirit is a prophet, but only the one who holds the ways of the Lord. So from their ways shall the false prophet and the prophet be known.” And when the apostle leaves, let him take nothing but bread until he lodges if he asks for money, he is a false prophet.” The false prophet is concerned, it implies, not with zealously announcing the word of God far and wide but rather with finding a cushy situation. The prophet, it says, “shall not remain more than one day if there be a need, also a second but if he remains three days, he is a false prophet. The Didache, authored in the late first century as a type of catechesis for the first Christians, said, “Let every apostle that comes to you be received as the Lord,” but cautioned them to pay attention, stressing, “if the teacher, … teaches another doctrine opposed to, do not listen to him.” The Didache also highlights the self-interest that often motivates false teachers. Peter wrote, “There were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be lying teachers among you (2 Pet 2:1). John wrote in his first letter, “Many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 Jn 4:1). False prophecy remained a major problem at the time of Jesus and the early Church. Throughout the Old Testament, the Lord’s chosen prophets were always opposed by imposters, those who claimed the title prophet but didn’t speak the Lord’s word but a false message that their listeners often found more pleasant. These are those who, rather than leading others in the ways of God, lead them astray.
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