Unit 0ne
Choice 2:  2 Peter 2 Teaching
Characteristics of False teachers
·         Deny the Lord that brought them
·         Many will follow them
·         Truth shall be evil spoken of
·         Judge others
·         Have filthy conversations
·         “vexed his righteous soul from day to day”
·         Sexual immorality
·         Constituted authority
·         Presumptuous
·         Boasting
·         Self-willed
·         Speak evil of things they don’t understand
·         find pleasure in riot
·         “sporting themselves with their own deceiving”
·         Eyes full of adultery
·         Cannot cease from sin
·         Beguiling unstable souls
·         “love the wages of unrighteousness”
·         Speak words of vanity
·         Promise others liberty when they are servants of corruption
This list helps me to recognize false teachers today.  Peter makes it clear that false teachers are ones that do not have any sense of setting their priorities straight.   A false teacher would be somebody that, when around them the spirit would not be present. 
2 Peter 2 verse 21 says, “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. “  It is clear what Peter is teaching us here.  It is dangerous to return to the pollutions of the world.  The greater the knowledge of the truth, the greater the condemnation if sinned against. We are also reminded in Doctrine and Covenants 82:7 that our former sins may continue to tempt us.