Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.