Heresies in the Early Church
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What is heresy?
The word "heresy" only appears once in the KJV but is translated as "sect" in most modern biblical translations.
- “But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers...[1]
Major heresies in the early church
Gnosticism
Quartodecimanism
Montanism
Monarchianism
=Dynamic Monarchianism (aka Adoptionism)
Modalistic Monarchianism (aka Sabellianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Oneness, Jesus Only)
Donatism
Arianism
Monophysitism
Pelagianism
Adoptionism
Nestorianism
Footnotes
- ↑ New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.