2 Timothy 2:18

‘Men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.’

For these men have not cut a straight path, they have erred from the truth. They are declaring that ‘the resurrection is past already’ (that is the general resurrection of the saved). They probably meant by this that by means of their esoteric knowledge they had already begun to rise towards God so that no future resurrection, and certainly not one of the body, would be necessary (compare 1 Corinthians 15:12-13; 1 Corinthians 15:16 where similar things were being said). It may partly have been a perversion of Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 1:19 to Ephesians 2:6. And the sad thing is that their teaching has caused the faith of others to be overthrown, although, as he will now make clear, that will not happen to any whom the Lord knows as His.