Satan is transformed into “an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). We should not be surprised that the devil, who is “a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44), should cover wicked doctrine and ecclesiastical falsehood in beautiful garments—garments that appear to the natural eye more fair than God’s divine truth. He does this so that falsehood becomes acceptable while divine truth is undermined and cast out and all this at the expense of holiness.
Even among Christians, the Apostle Paul warned of those who, in creating divisions, “by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting” (Rom. 16:18 JND). Let us “hold fast the form of sound words” (2 Tim. 1:13).
Anon.