In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on the glorious ones — the false teachers' behavior mirrors both the angels' transgression of proper boundaries and Sodom's sexual excess, with their conduct rooted in 'dreams' (enypniois, suggesting visionary authority claims that lack genuine apostolic grounding). Their threefold offense—defiling the flesh, rejecting authority, and blaspheming the glorious ones (doxa, likely angelic powers)—reveals a systematic rejection of cosmic order, institutional hierarchy, and the sanctity of creation. Their appeal to dreams as authorization suggests charismatic pretense masking deeper spiritual rebellion.

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