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

  1. New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.


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