Today's Top Heretical Lineup in the Church has These Themes
Heresies about Revelation — Teachings that distort, deny, or add to Scripture by false claims to an apostolic or prophetic authority.
Heresies about God — Teachings that promote false gods or distort the true nature of God.
Heresies about Man— Teaching that we are everything that Jesus is and we have power and authority equal to or greater than His.
Heresies about Christ — Denials of His unique Lordship; His genuine humanity, and deity which is his true eternal identity, and his physical resurrection.
Heresies about Salvation —Denying the gospel which is centered on the atonement from Christ's death on the cross and his work for our salvation. Instead it is found in hell where he furthered suffered.
Heresies of Practice —Teaching legalism, putting people under the OT law or man made ones as if they are biblical and mandatory in practice.
The word heresy (Greek hairesis) is used several different ways in the NT. It is used to describe the Sadducees and Pharisees in their false teaching, and some professing Christ (Acts 5:17, 15:5, 24:14, 28:22). The word heresy is used to describe a division or schism within the body of Christ that harms it and that departs from sound doctrine (1Cor. 11:19; Gal. 5:20). It is used of doctrinal errors brought into the Christian Church by false teachers and false prophets among it (2 Pet. 2:1-3).
HERESY is
Divisive- It has people separate from the apostles' teachings to practice to another's.
Denying- It denies some essential truth that is important for a complete balanced view.
Self Defining- It Avoids explaining itself and will define itself by its own standards, not God's.
Distorting- It distorts the actual meaning in Scripture but will use the Scripture as proof for its interpretation.
Departing- It departs from the context of the passage and is no longer a promotion of the truth as it was written.
Deleting- It take away from the authority of Scripture and will often exalt a proponent's fresh word or revelation above it.
Diabolical - It is diabolical in its intent to deceive an individual, a group of people, or a local church by promising things God did not. (Eph.4:14-16).
Devilish- It can be traced to the Father of Lies who is either personally involved or the person promoting it is operating from pride under the control of Satan's kingdom. The person can consciously know when they are teaching it or not know he is being used to promote it.
Heresy begets heresy. It will birth more false teaching and teachers as children from a parent. It may not be noticeably harmful at first until it matures. Given enough time it can be just as damaging as cancer which begins with a single cell then eventually affects the whole body. Speaking of false teaching, Paul says, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." Error dies a slow death. It must be dealt with swiftly as well as correctly or its cancer will spread like gangrene. As Jesus said to the Pharisees: they find a convert and make them twice the son of hell as they are.
The only thing that counters these is discernment. Discernment means one is in pursuit of the truth and no one should hinder ones personal inquiries
http://www.letusreason.org/Pent38.htm
Heresies about Revelation — Teachings that distort, deny, or add to Scripture by false claims to an apostolic or prophetic authority.
Heresies about God — Teachings that promote false gods or distort the true nature of God.
Heresies about Man— Teaching that we are everything that Jesus is and we have power and authority equal to or greater than His.
Heresies about Christ — Denials of His unique Lordship; His genuine humanity, and deity which is his true eternal identity, and his physical resurrection.
Heresies about Salvation —Denying the gospel which is centered on the atonement from Christ's death on the cross and his work for our salvation. Instead it is found in hell where he furthered suffered.
Heresies of Practice —Teaching legalism, putting people under the OT law or man made ones as if they are biblical and mandatory in practice.
The word heresy (Greek hairesis) is used several different ways in the NT. It is used to describe the Sadducees and Pharisees in their false teaching, and some professing Christ (Acts 5:17, 15:5, 24:14, 28:22). The word heresy is used to describe a division or schism within the body of Christ that harms it and that departs from sound doctrine (1Cor. 11:19; Gal. 5:20). It is used of doctrinal errors brought into the Christian Church by false teachers and false prophets among it (2 Pet. 2:1-3).
HERESY is
Divisive- It has people separate from the apostles' teachings to practice to another's.
Denying- It denies some essential truth that is important for a complete balanced view.
Self Defining- It Avoids explaining itself and will define itself by its own standards, not God's.
Distorting- It distorts the actual meaning in Scripture but will use the Scripture as proof for its interpretation.
Departing- It departs from the context of the passage and is no longer a promotion of the truth as it was written.
Deleting- It take away from the authority of Scripture and will often exalt a proponent's fresh word or revelation above it.
Diabolical - It is diabolical in its intent to deceive an individual, a group of people, or a local church by promising things God did not. (Eph.4:14-16).
Devilish- It can be traced to the Father of Lies who is either personally involved or the person promoting it is operating from pride under the control of Satan's kingdom. The person can consciously know when they are teaching it or not know he is being used to promote it.
Heresy begets heresy. It will birth more false teaching and teachers as children from a parent. It may not be noticeably harmful at first until it matures. Given enough time it can be just as damaging as cancer which begins with a single cell then eventually affects the whole body. Speaking of false teaching, Paul says, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." Error dies a slow death. It must be dealt with swiftly as well as correctly or its cancer will spread like gangrene. As Jesus said to the Pharisees: they find a convert and make them twice the son of hell as they are.
The only thing that counters these is discernment. Discernment means one is in pursuit of the truth and no one should hinder ones personal inquiries
http://www.letusreason.org/Pent38.htm
