Simply ask yourself, “What are my motives?”. If it is not to edify your brethren in Christ, it is wrong.
“If it is not to edify your brethren in Christ, it is wrong.”
I agree 100%. One of the greatest gifts of the Holy Spirit is the gift of Discernment. Here is a teaching by +John Cassian (4th-5th century and educated at a monastery in Jerusalem) to his monks at a monastery in Marseilles. It is part of a collection called “The Conferences” about the wisdom of the Desert Fathers of Egypt.
“So, then, the four kinds of discernment to which I have been referring will be necessary to us. First, as to material, is it true gold or spurious? Second, we must reject as fake and counterfeit coinage those thoughts which have the deceptive appearance of piety. They bear a false and not the genuine image of the king. Then we must be able to detect and to abhor those which impose a viciously heretical stamp on the precious gold of Scripture. This is not the effigy of the true king but of a tyrant. Finally, we must drive away thoughts which are like underweight coins, dangerous and inadequate, thoughts which have lost weight and value because of the rust of vanity, thoughts which do not measure up to the standard of the ancients.”
The more we know about scripture, the more we are able to grow in discernment. If we really believe that bats are birds, how easy will it be for the Evil One to fool us into believing what will bring about our spiritual downfall?