Just as there is the Kingdom of God, there is also a Kingdom of darkness. The apostle Peter in his second letter warns us of the false teachers who belong to the Kingdom of darkness and bring with them the teaching of heresies: "But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.", 2 Peter 2:1-3.
The teaching of heresies, that is, the teaching of error, falls within the works of the flesh: "The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft (heresies); hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.", Galatians 5:19-20.
Spiritual gifts are way, truth and life; Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life" in John 14:6. They are the way because they are progressive, gradual, the gifts are lived because we grow, they are true because they are precision and accuracy, and when the truth is not enough, the gifts are life.
Living the spiritual gifts, living according to the spirit is walking in the truth, because we are precise and accurate, and we are progressive. Then necessarily what is out is heresy, such as practicing justice or practicing prudence, the moral virtues are forms of error.
The goal of heresies is cultural oppression, creating the business of ignorance, depriving ordinary people of all hope. Jesus denounced the heresies of his time and his teachers, that is why he was crucified. As Jesus we are called to oppose, as spiritual warriors, the oppression that comes from the Kingdom of Darkness.
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