It goes something like this: I will reconnect after many years with a friend from my distant past. While bringing me up to date on the main milestones of their life they will say something like, “And for years I was lost to Mormonism but by God’s grace he saved me out of that”. At that point I provide a big sigh of relief and issue a small praise heavenward. But then they follow up with, “So now I am so much happier as a Charismatic Catholic”. It stuns me into silence every time how someone escaping one serious error somehow manages to flee to another equally or even more serious error.

The Bible calls this “folly“, which is a very polite euphemism for “stupidity”. Old Testament Israel kept doing this where they would follow every new idolatrous influence that came along, get spiritually reconciled back to the One True God, and subsequently fall into even greater error than before the next time. Today we see it with believers who have followed one false teacher and one false spiritual movement after another, hopping from bad to worse to even worse.

We need to not just encourage but educate our backslidden brothers and sisters about the goal of returning to faith in Christ and how such faith is not rooted in the pursuit of something that makes us feel good but transcends all earthly limitations by being founded on His Word and ways alone. Being saved out of one error only to go into another is biblical folly; returning to faithfulness in His Word and ways alone is biblical wisdom._††_†

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