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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