Case from Dripping Springs, Texas asks,

What does it mean that teachers will be judged with greater strictness?

James 31.

When you say the teachers will be held more responsible than others for teaching what is fully biblical,

what does that really mean in light of the fact that the believers justified by faith alone?

Another way to ask it is, what will be the ramifications for the Christian teacher

who accidentally preaches some form of falsehood?

Let's get the text in front of us here.

It's James 31.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers,

for you know that we who teach and the ESB trans rights will be judged with greater strictness.

Literally it's knowing that we will receive the greater judgment.

So evidently, the implication is, if you teach

and you stumble, because the next word says, we all stumble in any way.

That is you stumble in teaching either in some unholy way,

you use language that's an unholy way, or you teach some error,

then for you the judgment is going to be stricter.

Now what's going on there?

And I think the principles that are being assumed there go something like this.

Number one, knowing what to do makes one accountable to do it.

Romans 120.

His invisible attributes, namely his eternal power,

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