In Reply to: precedents...and pronouncing eternal damnation.. posted by ray on November 08, 2002 at 07:44:49:
Ray it says 'even as there shall be false teachers among you" This is not just talking about the past, but the now.
684 apoleia {ap-o'-li-a}
from a presumed derivative of 622; TDNT - 1:396,67; n f
AV - perdition 8, destruction 5, waste 2, damnable 1, to die + 1519 1,
perish + 1498 + 1519 1, pernicious 1; 20
1) destroying, utter destruction
1a) of vessels
2) a perishing, ruin, destruction
2a) of money
2b) the destruction which consists of eternal misery in hell
And by the way Ray, I'm not prounouncing eternal judgment, I'm only reading what the Bible says about false teachers. Jesus said he NEVER knew them and that He said that a millstone was better tied around their necks then what he had planned for these evil people.
God has already judged them. If we judge Berg as a false teacher (duh) then we have to stand with God's judgment against him.