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07-03-2006, 06:59 PM
Heresies - Which Group Do You Fall Under? (http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/lostbooks.htm)
Acosmism - in contrast to pantheism, denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, and only the infinite unmanifest Absolute as real.
Adoptionism - God granted Jesus powers and then adopted him as a Son.
Albigenses - Reincarnation and two gods: one good and other evil.
Apatheism - a disinclination to assess much value on unseen things.
Apollinarianism - Jesus divine will overshadowed and replaced the human.
Arianism - Jesus was a lesser, created being. The doctrines of Arius, denying that Jesus was of the same substance as God and holding instead that he was only the highest of created beings, viewed as heretical by most Christian churches.
Calvinism - There is evil created for a purpose for duality, creating (premaking) souls for hell and others to be saved before they could believe like robots. Total depravity is false because we are still made in God's image. Unconditional election and irresistible grace is unlawful because we are not robots. Limited atonement is not allowable because that would make God unrighteous.
Condignity - for the purpose of initial salvation, merit earned through good works while in a state of grace, and having a just claim on such rewards as heavenly glory (opposite is congruity - merit bestowed as a divine gift rather than earned.)
Coptic - two natures of Jesus thus two wills, instead of one will.
Deism - The creator created, but He is not Jesus.
Ditheism - The doctrine of or belief in two equally powerful gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
Docetism - Jesus was divine, but only seemed to be human. He was a spirit but only seemed to have a body; in reality he cast no shadow and left no footprints (an attempt to marry Platonic thought with Christian beliefs, because the spirit was all-important to Plato).
Donatism - Validity of sacraments depends on character of the minister.
Dualism - A theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes (yin and yang) which rejects Jesus as being God since Jesus is not two wills or two modes of good and evil. Also, the belief that a human being embodies two parts, as body and soul, instead of spirit, soul and body (tripartite). And still another definition I have seen to reject the Trinity: there is the Father and the Son, but the Spirit is not a Person but a life force or energy, so there dualistically just the Father and the Son.
Dualism ("Modified") - Since the powers of good and evil are unequal, and the evil power is merely tolerated by the good power, who turns all the acts of the evil power into eventual good. Calvinism may be seen as a form of "modified Dualism". This is close to Christianity, but still not Christian since God is not the author of evil.
Dythelitism (see related Ditheism) - Jesus was an amalgaman of two beings with two wills, minds and personalities; rather than one will, one Person in the Godhead and with two natures-divine and human-when in the creation. This would make Jesus schizoid and bipolar, mechanical and impersonal with multiple-personality if it were true, so the dytheist is forced to make these wills agree in these two beings of this false Christ. Mormons play with fire and actually do something similar making God to be gods mechanically. These ideas are legalistic. Jesus now becomes a being with distinct wills instead of one will expressed in the human will and divine will when He is in creation. It is the doctrine of the largest systems in Christendom, not of God: the Roman Church, Eastern Church and some Protestant systems were rejected by the Church when the Third Council of Constantinople decided to be dytheistic (the sixth ecumenical council, in 681). It should be noted they never backed up their claim, never showed evidence from Scripture, but just assumed this opinion. Some non-Christians (dytheists or dythelitists) often accuse Christians of being monothelitists (Jesus having one will as both God and man when in creation), but Monoenergists (mono+synergism, but accused as being monothelitists), not to be confused with Monergism (false teaching of Calvinism), do not accept this term (monothelitists), because Christians are not elitists, nor dyists or diests (nor deists-unrevealed creator). Mono (as in monotheism) means one God, not two gods or beings of Jesus in dythelitism.
Ebionites - You must be a Jew to follow Jesus.
Ecumenicalism – The idea that all divisions in Christendom are Christian.
Eutychianism - Holds that the human nature of Christ was essentially obliterated by the Divine, "dissolved like a drop of honey in the sea".
Flexidoxy (http://www.gracegospelministry.com/Articles/Polemics/spiritual_apatheism.htm) - The practice of those who adhere to the belief that man participates in determining the destiny of his course. In this rule of thinking, everything touching life is flexibly cued to the dictates of human actions, thus it appears that flexidoxy is a natural precursor to apatheism. Consequently, there are those who make themselves the center of their existence, leaving very little or no room for God to independently operate in their lives.
Gnosticism - Dualism of good and bad and special knowledge for salvation; an evil god created us (like Scientology or Thomasines new age) and the good and ultimate God, who allowed this creation by the evil god, comes to save. It holds that all physical matter is evil, the spirit was good, and only the intellectually enlightened could enjoy the benefits of religion. Gnostics found it hard to believe Jesus was both divine and human. Of course, John says he saw Jesus, talked with him and touched him-he knew Jesus was more than a mere spirit.
Henotheism - adherence to one particular god out of several, especially by a family, tribe, or other group. Henotheism (Monolatrism) - Belief in one god without denying the existence of others.
Incompatiblism (Libertarian) - An action cannot be both free and physically predetermined, rejecting God's infinite foreknowledge.
Infralapsarian - A calvinist god's decree of election is said to not have caused the fall (claims to not have directly cause the evil), but still caused the choice after the fall without first consideration of the choice of the person. To coerce the choice is itself evil, and to have to coerce the choice, the person must have been created evilly to be totally deprave, but to be totally deprave is to reject God's Word man remains in God's image.
Kaballah - Jesus is not God.
Kenosis - Jesus gave up some divine attributes while on earth.
Maltheism - There is no way that a benevolent omnipotent God would allow evil in the world, therefore, they reason, God is either not benevolent or not omnipotent.
Manichaean - dualistic theology in regards to good and evil. There is no omnipotent good power, denying the infinite perfection of God and postulating two opposite powers. The human person is seen as a battleground for these powers: body is bad, soul is good (Augustine of Hippo held this view).
Marcionites - God of the NT is not the same god of the OT.
Maronites - believe Mary was sinless as well as Jesus.
Miaphysitism (Henophysitism) - the two natures of Jesus are united in one nature without separation in heaven above or in creation (Non-Chalcedonians).
Modalism - God is one person in three modes.
Monarchianism - God is one person.
Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or the theological view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different religions even though God does not approve of false religions. Any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. In epistemology, a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. A position in metaphysics (http://biblocality.com/browse/metaphysics) that sees only one kind of principle whereas dualism (http://biblocality.com/browse/dualism) sees two. On the question of whether people's minds are distinct from their bodies, for example, a monist would hold either that mental conditions are essentially physical conditions (materialism (http://biblocality.com/browse/materialism)), or that bodies depend on minds for their existence (idealism (http://biblocality.com/browse/idealism)). Man is not dualistic or monistic but tripartite (spirit, soul, body) like God is Triune (Father, Son, Spirit).
Monobipolism (681 AD) - Jesus has two wills, two minds, which leads to subordinationism within Jesus to Himself, like a bipolar war going on.
Monergism - Calvinism, the teaching a person is irresistibly imposed salvation or denied sufficient grace to receive the offer or to have the choice, and deny even that an offer is real or a choice is free. Monergism rejects justification by faith and thus is non-synergistic.
Monolatry - the worship of only one god although other gods are recognized as existing.
Monomanism - Jesus is not spirit with the Father in 3rd heaven, but the Father is spirit, but the Jesus is a man, instead of only being a man in creation.
Monolatry - The worship of only one god although other gods are recognized as existing (Henotheism).
Monophysitism - Jesus had only one nature: divine. Coptic, Syrian and Oriental Orthodox.
Montanism - Claiming Biblical tongues is gibberish babble (2nd century heresy), today called Pentecostalism.
Nestorianism - Jesus was two persons. Assyrian Church of the East.
Open Theism - Rejecting God's infinite foreknowledge of Him being all-knowing (omniscient).
Panpsychism - the view that consciousness, mind or soul (psyche) is a universal and primordial feature of all things.
Pantheism - The doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God as nature. Briefly put, in pantheism, "God is the whole".
Pandeism - the creator of the universe actually became the universe, and so ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity.
Panentheism - "The whole is in God." Those who believe God is present in matter and the cosmos, but also extends beyond it, in ways that are beyond our understanding, are termed panentheists.
Patripassionism - The Father suffered on the cross
Pelagianism - Man is unaffected by the fall and can keep all of God's laws.
Quaternity - 3 Persons of the Godhead plus Mary (Co-Redemptrix).
Sabellianism - the Eastern church or Patripassianism in the Western church (also known as modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism) is the nontrinitarian or anti-trinitarian belief that the Heavenly Father, Resurrected Son, and Holy Spirit are three different modes or aspects of one ...
Scientism - excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.
Socinianism - Denial of the Trinity. Jesus is a deified man.
Supralapsarian - A calvinist god's decree of election is said to have caused the fall (directly causing the evil) and caused the choice after the fall without first consideration of the choice of the person. To coerce the choice is also evil, and to have to coerce the choice, the person must have been created evilly to be totally deprave, but to be totally deprave is to reject God's Word man remains in God's image.
Swedenborgianism - God is one Person Jesus only, not 3 Persons. The Father is the Soul, the Son is the Body, and the Holy Spirit is the Activity of the One Divine Person. Rejects the Holy Spirit as the 3rd Person Personableness of God's life.
Syncretism - the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
Theodicy - God is benevolent without consideration for His righteousness and holiness. A perfect God is not only good but also evil. God may intend evil and suffering as a test for humanity. Absolute evil is not actually real as in the Antichrist.
Thomasine - We all share divinity.
Substance monotheism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_monotheism), found in some indigenous African religions, holds that the many gods are different forms of a single underlying substance.
Traducianism - An individual's soul is derived from the souls of the individual's parents. This implies that only the soul of Adam was created directly by God, rather than God having in His mind to create all men who ever existed in His image from before the foundations of the world, for if the parent is a creator of your soul then it is not God creating you.
Transtheism - a system of thought or religious philosophy which is neither theistic, nor atheistic, but is beyond them.
Tritheism - the Trinity is really three separate gods.
Unitarianism - the belief God exists in one person, not three, which denies the Trinity. It claims the humanity of Jesus, rather than his divinity and humanity.
Acosmism - in contrast to pantheism, denies the reality of the universe, seeing it as ultimately illusory, and only the infinite unmanifest Absolute as real.
Adoptionism - God granted Jesus powers and then adopted him as a Son.
Albigenses - Reincarnation and two gods: one good and other evil.
Apatheism - a disinclination to assess much value on unseen things.
Apollinarianism - Jesus divine will overshadowed and replaced the human.
Arianism - Jesus was a lesser, created being. The doctrines of Arius, denying that Jesus was of the same substance as God and holding instead that he was only the highest of created beings, viewed as heretical by most Christian churches.
Calvinism - There is evil created for a purpose for duality, creating (premaking) souls for hell and others to be saved before they could believe like robots. Total depravity is false because we are still made in God's image. Unconditional election and irresistible grace is unlawful because we are not robots. Limited atonement is not allowable because that would make God unrighteous.
Condignity - for the purpose of initial salvation, merit earned through good works while in a state of grace, and having a just claim on such rewards as heavenly glory (opposite is congruity - merit bestowed as a divine gift rather than earned.)
Coptic - two natures of Jesus thus two wills, instead of one will.
Deism - The creator created, but He is not Jesus.
Ditheism - The doctrine of or belief in two equally powerful gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
Docetism - Jesus was divine, but only seemed to be human. He was a spirit but only seemed to have a body; in reality he cast no shadow and left no footprints (an attempt to marry Platonic thought with Christian beliefs, because the spirit was all-important to Plato).
Donatism - Validity of sacraments depends on character of the minister.
Dualism - A theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes (yin and yang) which rejects Jesus as being God since Jesus is not two wills or two modes of good and evil. Also, the belief that a human being embodies two parts, as body and soul, instead of spirit, soul and body (tripartite). And still another definition I have seen to reject the Trinity: there is the Father and the Son, but the Spirit is not a Person but a life force or energy, so there dualistically just the Father and the Son.
Dualism ("Modified") - Since the powers of good and evil are unequal, and the evil power is merely tolerated by the good power, who turns all the acts of the evil power into eventual good. Calvinism may be seen as a form of "modified Dualism". This is close to Christianity, but still not Christian since God is not the author of evil.
Dythelitism (see related Ditheism) - Jesus was an amalgaman of two beings with two wills, minds and personalities; rather than one will, one Person in the Godhead and with two natures-divine and human-when in the creation. This would make Jesus schizoid and bipolar, mechanical and impersonal with multiple-personality if it were true, so the dytheist is forced to make these wills agree in these two beings of this false Christ. Mormons play with fire and actually do something similar making God to be gods mechanically. These ideas are legalistic. Jesus now becomes a being with distinct wills instead of one will expressed in the human will and divine will when He is in creation. It is the doctrine of the largest systems in Christendom, not of God: the Roman Church, Eastern Church and some Protestant systems were rejected by the Church when the Third Council of Constantinople decided to be dytheistic (the sixth ecumenical council, in 681). It should be noted they never backed up their claim, never showed evidence from Scripture, but just assumed this opinion. Some non-Christians (dytheists or dythelitists) often accuse Christians of being monothelitists (Jesus having one will as both God and man when in creation), but Monoenergists (mono+synergism, but accused as being monothelitists), not to be confused with Monergism (false teaching of Calvinism), do not accept this term (monothelitists), because Christians are not elitists, nor dyists or diests (nor deists-unrevealed creator). Mono (as in monotheism) means one God, not two gods or beings of Jesus in dythelitism.
Ebionites - You must be a Jew to follow Jesus.
Ecumenicalism – The idea that all divisions in Christendom are Christian.
Eutychianism - Holds that the human nature of Christ was essentially obliterated by the Divine, "dissolved like a drop of honey in the sea".
Flexidoxy (http://www.gracegospelministry.com/Articles/Polemics/spiritual_apatheism.htm) - The practice of those who adhere to the belief that man participates in determining the destiny of his course. In this rule of thinking, everything touching life is flexibly cued to the dictates of human actions, thus it appears that flexidoxy is a natural precursor to apatheism. Consequently, there are those who make themselves the center of their existence, leaving very little or no room for God to independently operate in their lives.
Gnosticism - Dualism of good and bad and special knowledge for salvation; an evil god created us (like Scientology or Thomasines new age) and the good and ultimate God, who allowed this creation by the evil god, comes to save. It holds that all physical matter is evil, the spirit was good, and only the intellectually enlightened could enjoy the benefits of religion. Gnostics found it hard to believe Jesus was both divine and human. Of course, John says he saw Jesus, talked with him and touched him-he knew Jesus was more than a mere spirit.
Henotheism - adherence to one particular god out of several, especially by a family, tribe, or other group. Henotheism (Monolatrism) - Belief in one god without denying the existence of others.
Incompatiblism (Libertarian) - An action cannot be both free and physically predetermined, rejecting God's infinite foreknowledge.
Infralapsarian - A calvinist god's decree of election is said to not have caused the fall (claims to not have directly cause the evil), but still caused the choice after the fall without first consideration of the choice of the person. To coerce the choice is itself evil, and to have to coerce the choice, the person must have been created evilly to be totally deprave, but to be totally deprave is to reject God's Word man remains in God's image.
Kaballah - Jesus is not God.
Kenosis - Jesus gave up some divine attributes while on earth.
Maltheism - There is no way that a benevolent omnipotent God would allow evil in the world, therefore, they reason, God is either not benevolent or not omnipotent.
Manichaean - dualistic theology in regards to good and evil. There is no omnipotent good power, denying the infinite perfection of God and postulating two opposite powers. The human person is seen as a battleground for these powers: body is bad, soul is good (Augustine of Hippo held this view).
Marcionites - God of the NT is not the same god of the OT.
Maronites - believe Mary was sinless as well as Jesus.
Miaphysitism (Henophysitism) - the two natures of Jesus are united in one nature without separation in heaven above or in creation (Non-Chalcedonians).
Modalism - God is one person in three modes.
Monarchianism - God is one person.
Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or the theological view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different religions even though God does not approve of false religions. Any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. In epistemology, a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. A position in metaphysics (http://biblocality.com/browse/metaphysics) that sees only one kind of principle whereas dualism (http://biblocality.com/browse/dualism) sees two. On the question of whether people's minds are distinct from their bodies, for example, a monist would hold either that mental conditions are essentially physical conditions (materialism (http://biblocality.com/browse/materialism)), or that bodies depend on minds for their existence (idealism (http://biblocality.com/browse/idealism)). Man is not dualistic or monistic but tripartite (spirit, soul, body) like God is Triune (Father, Son, Spirit).
Monobipolism (681 AD) - Jesus has two wills, two minds, which leads to subordinationism within Jesus to Himself, like a bipolar war going on.
Monergism - Calvinism, the teaching a person is irresistibly imposed salvation or denied sufficient grace to receive the offer or to have the choice, and deny even that an offer is real or a choice is free. Monergism rejects justification by faith and thus is non-synergistic.
Monolatry - the worship of only one god although other gods are recognized as existing.
Monomanism - Jesus is not spirit with the Father in 3rd heaven, but the Father is spirit, but the Jesus is a man, instead of only being a man in creation.
Monolatry - The worship of only one god although other gods are recognized as existing (Henotheism).
Monophysitism - Jesus had only one nature: divine. Coptic, Syrian and Oriental Orthodox.
Montanism - Claiming Biblical tongues is gibberish babble (2nd century heresy), today called Pentecostalism.
Nestorianism - Jesus was two persons. Assyrian Church of the East.
Open Theism - Rejecting God's infinite foreknowledge of Him being all-knowing (omniscient).
Panpsychism - the view that consciousness, mind or soul (psyche) is a universal and primordial feature of all things.
Pantheism - The doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God as nature. Briefly put, in pantheism, "God is the whole".
Pandeism - the creator of the universe actually became the universe, and so ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity.
Panentheism - "The whole is in God." Those who believe God is present in matter and the cosmos, but also extends beyond it, in ways that are beyond our understanding, are termed panentheists.
Patripassionism - The Father suffered on the cross
Pelagianism - Man is unaffected by the fall and can keep all of God's laws.
Quaternity - 3 Persons of the Godhead plus Mary (Co-Redemptrix).
Sabellianism - the Eastern church or Patripassianism in the Western church (also known as modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism) is the nontrinitarian or anti-trinitarian belief that the Heavenly Father, Resurrected Son, and Holy Spirit are three different modes or aspects of one ...
Scientism - excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques.
Socinianism - Denial of the Trinity. Jesus is a deified man.
Supralapsarian - A calvinist god's decree of election is said to have caused the fall (directly causing the evil) and caused the choice after the fall without first consideration of the choice of the person. To coerce the choice is also evil, and to have to coerce the choice, the person must have been created evilly to be totally deprave, but to be totally deprave is to reject God's Word man remains in God's image.
Swedenborgianism - God is one Person Jesus only, not 3 Persons. The Father is the Soul, the Son is the Body, and the Holy Spirit is the Activity of the One Divine Person. Rejects the Holy Spirit as the 3rd Person Personableness of God's life.
Syncretism - the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.
Theodicy - God is benevolent without consideration for His righteousness and holiness. A perfect God is not only good but also evil. God may intend evil and suffering as a test for humanity. Absolute evil is not actually real as in the Antichrist.
Thomasine - We all share divinity.
Substance monotheism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_monotheism), found in some indigenous African religions, holds that the many gods are different forms of a single underlying substance.
Traducianism - An individual's soul is derived from the souls of the individual's parents. This implies that only the soul of Adam was created directly by God, rather than God having in His mind to create all men who ever existed in His image from before the foundations of the world, for if the parent is a creator of your soul then it is not God creating you.
Transtheism - a system of thought or religious philosophy which is neither theistic, nor atheistic, but is beyond them.
Tritheism - the Trinity is really three separate gods.
Unitarianism - the belief God exists in one person, not three, which denies the Trinity. It claims the humanity of Jesus, rather than his divinity and humanity.