The Test of Didaskalia: Paul gives a practical diagnostic. True didaskalia accords "with godliness" (1 Tim. 6:3). False
● Works-based or Experience-based: It shifts confidence from Christ's finished work to rituals, legal codes, mystical experiences, or interior revelations.
● Novel or Esoteric: It boasts of new insights beyond the apostolic deposit or depends on interpretations unknown to the broader historical Church.
● Division-producing: It generates controversies, speculations, and quarrels rather than godly edification (1 Tim 1:4).
● Culturally conforming: It mutates to fit the prevailing desires of the age rather than confronting them with the Word of God.
It produces Sin consciousness Heb10:2
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
The Test of Didaskalia: Paul gives a practical diagnostic. True didaskalia accords "with godliness" (1 Tim. 6:3). False didaskalia does not. If a teaching produces conceit, controversy, quarrels, envy, or exploitation, it is