You said -- "This is what he told us to do about false teachers."
Well, the Apostle Paul did a lot more than ignore them. He would name them and say a lot more than that. And, unless you have others who can report these things, analyze them, put them down for other to read and be warned of it -- it leads to many others being misled.
What he was saying was not to go and cut off their heads (like the Muslims do). He wasn't saying to allow them to continuing teaching without being reproved. And *definitely* we are to warn others to not fall for the deception.
You see, when they gather up the tares at the end of the age, they are burned (that means "dead"). We're not burning them. We comply with that. But, we are reproving false teaching.
Regards,
Star Traveler
[... we are reproving false teaching...]
As we should. My concern is all this bickering among
the brethren could drive the baby Christian back into
the world. I suppose I was equating the tares as watered
down teaching and the wheat as baby believers.
What do you think?