False Teachers

"...When the rhetorician is more convincing than the doctor, the ignorant is more convincing among the ignorant than the expert." Gorgias 459b

This is a great line in Plato's Gorgias illustrating the present day common error of listening to the most popular opinions rather than the truth from those who are actually qualified and know and propose the truth (viz. those ordained by Christ and following Christ). If this were a world of saints then the crowds would not be easily deceived on the truth and right living. But as it is we need the authority from heaven for certainty's sake.