The three most common devices of heretics, in order to turn the discussion against their opponents are some form of this:

1. They claim to be misunderstood. This is easy because they use words deceptively and, when called, profess another meaning. The animal keeps changing.

2. They accuse you of arrogance: you are a “know it all” and prideful.

3. They accuse you of not having compassion, of being harsh and unloving. They are not loving when they say this. They know they were caught and pretend otherwise. They would make the argument turn on emotion.

Truth has nothing to do with the inner state of the one who speaks the truth. Neither does a lie become the truth even when spoken “lovingly and tenderly.”

The pagans did not burn Christians because they disagreed with them. They burned Christians because Christians claimed to be right about Jesus being the Son of God and the only way to Heaven.
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Dr. C. W. (Bud) Powell, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History at New Geneva Seminary, Colorado Springs, Colo.