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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