The term "false teacher" occurs one time in the New Testament:
WEB 2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. ...
and
here the term does not refer to a teacher who mistakenly believes and
teaches false things; it refers to teachers who are not genuine.
The phrase refers to teachers who are false, not to teachings that are false.
If we're going to use Biblical phrases in Biblical ways, we should be aware of this distinction.
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