You might be surprised at what the Bible actually
teaches about heresy and heretics.
Not exact matches
Heresy and Doctrine in the Early Church In the first few centuries of Christianity, teachers
taught wildly different ideas
about who Jesus was.
It is wrong to say that
heresy and heretics do n`t exist, because the Bible clearly talks
about heresy,
heresies, heretics, false teachers, false
teachings etc..
Antinomianism is a wrong understanding of what the bible
teaches about the law of God, but it is not
heresy.
Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to
teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church
about what was truth and what was «
heresy.»
However different the two ways may have become when Augustine was a bishop fighting
heresies, at the period of his conversion his philosophic understanding of scriptural
teaching about the divine order is far more in evidence than any appeal to faith.