Loafers??? Talk about putting your foot in your mouth!!! As a preview to a sandwich, this looks good to me, but as shoes that BECOME A SANDWICH- NOT SO MUCH!!!! Well, what do we have here? Bread masquerading as foot-ware. Phony, false, misleading, fraudulent, deceiving, devious and the list could go on and on and on. Its a good thing that does happen in "Christianity", isn't it??? Well, in fact it does. When people superimpose their own ideas on what the Bible teaches, or something other than what the Bible teaches they are false teaches, they err. The Scriptures call them false prophets and I like what Jesus has to say about them...
Matthew, Chapter 7
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. 19 Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
I have never met a person who wanted to follow a false prophet, so why does it happen? More importantly, how do you identify one? Jesus tells us in the above passage. The fruit (results) of what they teach will identify them. If the results of their teaching has a different outcome that the Scriptural examples -BEWARE!!! Sometimes people can really talk a good game and so you really have to listen and analyse what is being said between the lines. A quick way I tell truth from error is this: Does what is being taught harmonize with what the entire Bible teaches as a whole or the book which it comes from and the surrounding text? This requires work, so don't be a loafer- listen, learn, be discerning and most of all see what the outcome of the teaching is. As far as those loafers in the picture go- I wouldn't wear them- BUT, I would put some meatballs and sauce in them and have some lunch.