Too Close for Comfort

“The Bible teaches us that the credibility of the profession of others may be called into question in the heat of lawful, polemical controversy. In the midst of the controversy, the apostle Paul declared that those who wanted to require circumcision of the Gentiles were ‘false brothers’ (Gal. 2:4). He says that they were ‘dogs,’ ‘evil workers,’ ‘mutilators of the flesh’ (Phil. 3:2). He doesn’t go so far as to call them Episcopalian bishops, but he certainly comes close” (Against the Church, p. 99).