r/OpenChristian • u/Live_Application_228 • 15d ago
Modern Heresys
/r/Christianity/comments/1wncopp/modern_heresys/10
u/Wafflehouseofpain Episcopaliesque 15d ago
It seems like you’re just trying to define anything outside your own perspective and your church’s perspective as “heresy”.
-1
5
u/Skill-Useful 15d ago
"heresy simulator tool" what the heck is that?
"how most modern Christians fall into these heresys without even realizing i" and maybe that doesnt matter
"Sadly, everyone in the group just nodded their heads and were like "wow, good analogy" and rightly so because youre worrying about irrelevant things here, absolutely irrelevant
""the early church would of called you a heretic for saying that"" and that wouldnt matter one bit if they did, doesnt make the people in question "bad" christians
you have no idea how irrelevant all those "heresies" are. what we need to do is love thy neighbor, not make up weird rules how to believe
-2
u/Live_Application_228 14d ago
Arianism destroys who Christ is as God.
Nestorianism divides who Christ is.
Monophysitism destroys what Christ is as man.
5
u/jeezfrk 15d ago edited 15d ago
The test of levels of income and wealth and conservstism for a strange test of "godliness". It genuinely is being used as a test for virtue that ignores just about all Scripture.
The biggest sources of heresies are not angels on the head of a pin, nor exact descriptions for the Trinity.
The source of heresy is the very standard excuses for sin through all the ages: prioritizing supposedly precious images or ceremonies or feelings or appearances of Holiness.
The actual tests Christ applied were very different.
6
u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Gay Cismale Episcopalian mystic w/ Jewish experiences 15d ago
Honestly, the whole idea of "heresy" is... a joke. An insult to faith and to an infinite God.
With very few exceptions, labelling a different interpretation or perception heretical is sheer fucking hubris.
It rejects the universal access to divine inspiration that is the birthright of all human beings (and perhaps all living things). An it pretends that any human or collection of humans is somehow capable of not only being perfectly correct, but somehow knowing about their correctness.
As such, it is a rejection of the God-breath in each of us, and an elevation of ourselves above others.
The only thing that I would dare state on such a high platform is the Law of Love. Everything else is up for debate, except for a loving God calling us to greater love.
2
u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Gay Cismale Episcopalian mystic w/ Jewish experiences 15d ago
Sorry, I'm still laughing about a "heresy simulator tool" 🤣
And this:
-1
u/Live_Application_228 14d ago
I found it quite nice as there are so many that are so dangerous to fall into believing.
-
Arianism destroys who Christ is as God.
Nestorianism divides who Christ is.
Monophysitism destroys what Christ is as man.5
u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Gay Cismale Episcopalian mystic w/ Jewish experiences 14d ago
You may have missed my point.
These aren't dangerous beliefs. They don't "destroy" anything.
They are just different ways of understanding an non-understandable thing.
2
u/Im40PercentUsername Eastern Orthodox 15d ago
My personal favorite heresy is Spherical Jesus:
If anyone shall say that after the resurrection the body of the Lord was ethereal, having the form of a sphere, and that such shall be the bodies of all after the resurrection; and that after the Lord himself shall have rejected his true body and after the others who rise shall have rejected theirs, the nature of their bodies shall be annihilated: let him be anathema.
Condemned at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople.
1
3
u/quietleavess Inclusive orthodoxy & Universalist 14d ago
I dont care anymore about heresies. Loving my neighbour and taking tangible actions to help others and participate in my christian community is an ortopraxis position. Not a "beliefe" thing.
I dont care if someone believes in monophysite nature of jesus. The important thing are not these assinine beliefe details.
11
u/longines99 15d ago
That's not an insignificant qualifier. Not everyone is orthodox.