Sentences with phrase «gnostic heresy»

It is gnostic heresy.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

This sounds like Gnostic heresy to me.

Their author writes to warn the churches against false teachings, particularly the claims of entire sanctification and the Gnostic heresies asserting a special illumination, which were upsetting them and causing divisions.

But he cautions that «the comparison with the Pelagian and Gnostic heresies intends only to recall general common features, without entering into judgments on the exact nature of the ancient errors.»

Not exact matches

the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

[61] This affirmation comes in his treatise which has been devoted to the explication and refutation of various «heresies» including that of Simon Magus and the Simonians, Nicolaus and the Nicolaitans, Meander, Cerinthus (in the Apostolic and sub-Apostolic era) Carpocrates and the Carpocratians, Saturninus, Basilides and the Basilidians, Credo or Cerdon, Valentinus and the Valentinians (who were Gnostic teachers of the second century [62]-RRB-, and other teachers and sects of the second century including Marcion and the Marcionites, the Ebionites and the Encratites.

This theory is not as popular today as it once was, but it was a common view held by many during the first centuries of the church (e.g., the Gnostics held this view), and was rightly condemned as heresy by many of the early church leaders.

I told them that to me, this sounds a lot like the ancient Gnostic and Docetic heresies which taught that Jesus wasn't fully human.

Suggesting in an interview that the contemporary ecumenical mood be extended back to the «losers» of the early centuries, the Gnostic Christians, he concluded: «I would hope we could open minds to a big hunk of early Christianity and rethink our conceptions of what was «heresy» and «orthodoxy.»»

Questions, Fact: It was only later, in the 100's AD when the Gnostics began circulating their own texts and claiming apostolic authorship, that the true church decided that it became necessary to weed out all heresies that desired to creep into the canon, so they developed a standard test to determine the canonicity of scripture.