How can a so-called church display monstrous behaviour?

If a church is teaching people that they are Christian and inheritors of eternal life, although they do not imitate Christ and obey Christ's commandments, it will display monstrous character, according to 2 Peter 2. (Is there a different prediction to be found in Christ's words?)

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. ¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. ²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. ²¹ 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. ²² But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (2 Peter 2, AKJV)


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Notes

AKJV: KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.