For where there is no faith, but everything is the fruit of human reasoning, there is no knowledge, and the name is falsely applied. Note that there are contradictions to which one should not even respond, but rather avoid them and not associate with people who are ready for contradictions.
1 Tim. 6:21. Which some having given themselves over to, have strayed from the faith.
Whoever follows mere human reasonings inevitably misses the harmony and the goal of faith. For faith does not admit of intellectual comprehensions. I think the apostle says all this about the Gnostics known at that time, who were filled with every impurity, which he also called "profane and vain babblings" (1 Tim. 6:20). Among them, the representative of this heresy was Nicolaus, one of the seven deacons.
1 Tim. 6:21. Grace be with you. Amen.
As a seal upon everything, he wishes him grace, by which every good thing is both given and preserved. May we all be partakers of it, not squandering the blessings received from it, but by it preserving them and glorifying Christ, the Giver of graces, with the Father and the Holy Spirit: to Him be glory unto the ages of ages. Amen.