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A goal of Gnosticism (and its modern-day variants) is "object undefined"--and every programmer knows that provokes an error.

As J. Gresham Machen wrote in his Notes on Galatians:

>"All definition is by way of exclusion." (emphasis mine)

This means controversy in the church and in society. Machen continues:

>...there is one word which every true Christian must learn to use . It is the word "not" or the word "No." A Christian must certainly learn to say 'No' in the field of conduct; there are some things that the world does, which he cannot do. But he must also learn to say "No" in the field of conviction. ... The church of our day [1931] needs above all else men who can say 'No'; for it is only men who can say 'No,' men who are brave enough to take a stand against the sin and error in the Church--it is only such men who can really say 'Yea and amen' to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

(J. Gresham Machen, Notes on Galatians, p. 6-7)