#monophysitism

  List of Heresies                                                

Adoptionism The belief Jesus is not eternally God but became God sometime after His birth

Antinomianism The belief that Christians are not bound by God’s law and are free to sin as they please; That Jesus' rescues from the guilt of sin but not its power..

Anti-Paulism The belief that the Apostle Paul was a heretic and that the books he wrote are not a part of Biblical Canon

Arianism The belief that Jesus and the Holy Spirit were lesser, created beings and  not persons of the Godhead .

Christian Deism The belief that God does not intervene in or interact with the world.

Docetism - The belief that Jesus was divine but only seemed to be human.

Donatism - The belief that the efficacy of the sacraments depends on character of the minister.

Dual Covenant Theology The belief that Jews can still be saved without believing in Jesus

Eutychianism - The belief that Jesus' finite human nature is swallowed up in His infinite divine nature.

Gay Theology - The belief that homosexuality is not a sin. Consequently, the full gospel of rescue from sin's tyranny is witheld from those who self-identify as "gay"

Gnosticism - Holds to a radical dualism of good and evil and believes secret knowledge is necessary for salvation. This contrasts sharply with Christianity which affirms the good of creation. Gnostics think matter is evil.

Inclusivism The belief that faith is not necessary for salvation and that God’s mercy is so wide that it embraces all non-Christian peoples on the earth

Kenosis The belief that Jesus ceased to be divine while on Earth

Kinism The belief that people are only to consort, worship, and marry people of their same race.  

Legalism - Trusting in one's own righteousness (or anything) aside from Jesus to win acceptance with God

Liberalism The belief that Scripture is not inerrant or infallible (Not to be confused with the political system of the same name)

Limited Theism The belief that God’s powers are or can be limited and He is not All-Powerful

Marcionism - The belief that the God of the O.T. is evil and the God of the N.T. is good. Affirms 11 books in the Canon

Macedonianism The belief that God the Holy Spirit is not a member of the Godhead but merely a creation of God.

Manichaeism The belief that good and evil are both equally powerful in ability and/or authority.

Modalism The belief that the members of the Trinity are not three distinct persons but three different aspects of the same person.

Monarchianism - The belief that God is one person.

Monophysitism - The belief that Jesus had only one nature: divine.

Montanism The belief that the Bible is either insufficient or incomplete, and that new revelation from God is being regularly given.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - the new American Religion.

Neo-Orthodoxy The belief that the Bible is not the Inspired Word of God unless it is being read by a believer.

Neoplatonism The belief that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited

Nestorianism - The belief that Jesus was two persons.

Open Theism The belief that God is not omniscient and doesn’t know the future.

Papal Primacy The belief that the Pope is the head of the Church while it is on Earth as well as the vicar of Christ.

Partialism The belief that each member of the Trinity is 1/3 of God rather than being fully God.

Pelagianism The belief that human nature is untainted by the Fall of Man and is not corrupted with Original Sin.

Pluralism The belief that two or more religions can be true at one time.

Positive Thinking The belief that your thoughts have the God-like ability to create your reality.

Prosperity Gospel The belief that the promises of the Gospel include good physical health and Earthly wealth.

Progressive Christianity - a post-modern theological approach, a revisionist view of the Scriptures, with a strong focus on social justice and an over-emphasis on politics. Rooted in Liberal Christianity of the modern-era.

Rauschenbuschism (the social gospel) The belief that the main purpose of the Gospel is to be the cure for social issues rather than the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God.

Roman Catholicism - Roman Catholicism violates scripture in its doctrine of salvation, its claims about its authority, its apostolic succession, its priesthood, and its claim to have the sole right to interpret Scripture.

Semi-Pelagianism - The belief that man and God cooperate to achieve man's salvation.(with man initiating)

Socinianism - A Denial of the Trinity. The belief that Jesus is a deified man

Subordinationism - The belief that the Son is lesser than the Father in essence and or attributes.

Trinitarian Heresies Here is list of major heresies which deny the biblical teaching on the Trinity

Tritheism The belief that the Godhead is actually three separate gods

Universalism The belief that everyone will go to Heaven

Word of Faith The belief that human words have the God-like power to create or destroy.

Bishop Robert Barron produced a short video on this topic. He outlines three basic misunderstandings of Jesus’ identity. First, there are those who say that Jesus isn’t really human because he is divine. This position is a form of monophysitism, the heresy that promotes the belief that Jesus has just one nature, which is his divine nature. Historically speaking, this was one of the earliest heresies and it arose in Greek speaking communities. The Greeks were used to thinking that the human and divine are mutually exclusive and separated by a gulf that cannot be bridged. 

At the other end of the spectrum, there are those who would hold that Jesus is definitely human and sort of divine. This is a form of nestorianism and it is seen in those who consider Jesus to be a great prophet, a teacher, a guru, but not God. 

Somewhere in between these two positions, where we find people who consider Jesus to be neither wholly divine, nor wholly human - a sort of demi-god, as it were, like Hercules - we find a form of arianism. This, too, would have been a popular view of Jesus amongst the Greeks and Romans. 

The Catholic position is quite different from these: Jesus is both divine and human. In the person of Jesus, there is the hypostatic union of two natures, his divine nature and his human nature, both separate and distinct, but united in the one person whom we know as Jesus, the Christ. The word “hypostatic” has been used for centuries to describe the coming together and yet remaining distinct, of the two natures in the person of Jesus. 

For those who seek to follow Jesus and who accept union with God through Baptism, Jesus becomes the model of what it means to be fully human. St Irenaeus once said, “The glory of God is man fully alive.” By this, he meant that we are only truly human when we are united with God, that is, our human nature is united with the divine nature of God. Jesus, then, is the model par excellence of what it means to be moral, to be ethical, to love others as God loves them. 

Bl. John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Chapter 6 § 3.3.9

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Book Review: “Jesus Fallen?”

By John Sanidopoulos

If there was one book on Christology I wish I had as a young seminarian, it would have been the recently published book titled Jesus Fallen? The Human Nature of Christ Examined From An Eastern Orthodox Perspective by Emmanuel Hatzidakis, a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. This book is a powerful and detailed critique of one of…