has to do with false teaching concerning the resurrection. Unless such men are publicly rebuked, their false doctrines will spread like gangrene (2:17). Of course Paul is not referencing minor doctrinal differences among Christians, but when the cardinal doctrines of the faith are under attack there can be no compromise. Removal from the church is also espoused for repeated divisiveness. In Titus 3:10 we are told to reject a factious man after a first and second warning. In passages such as 2 Thessalonians