What does it mean that false teachers speak evil of things they know not?
It means false teachers ridicule and reject spiritual truth they do not truly understand. Their knowledge is limited to natural, fleshly reasoning, no deeper than brute beasts, so they scorn God's Word, substitute their own ideas, and corrupt themselves, following the rationalizing way of Cain.
Les explains that Jude chapter 10 is speaking of false teachers in the closing days. They speak evil of things they know not, meaning they ridicule and scorn the truth of God's Word while having their own Bible, so to speak. What they know naturally comes from the energy of the flesh, as brute beasts. Their thinking does not go any deeper spiritually than an animal, which is why their behavior becomes almost animalistic, and in those things they corrupt themselves. Les ties this to the woe of going in the way of Cain, who rationalized from the human side. He also illustrates the same appeal with the New Age movement, which sucks people in and appeals to the human intellect.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Who are the false teachers Jude chapter 10 is talking about?
Jude chapter 10 refers to false teachers in the closing days who deceive by speaking evil of truths they do not know. They ridicule and scorn God’s Word, operate from the energy of the flesh, think no deeper spiritually than animals, corrupt themselves, and follow Cain’s way of rationalizing from the human side.
Why do false teachers ridicule Scripture?
False teachers ridicule Scripture because they have never studied it and know nothing about it. They speak evil of what they are ignorant of, rejecting it simply because it is the Word of God. Their thinking is no higher than the animal world, coming from the old Adamic nature, so they corrupt themselves.
More Questions
Who are the false teachers in Jude talking about?
The false teachers Jude speaks of are those who will be deceptive in the closing days.
Why is the thinking of false teachers no deeper than an animal?
The false teachers' thinking does not go any deeper spiritually than an animal because their knowledge is natural, from the energy of the flesh.