Favorite Heresy?

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05 Jun 2011, 9:18 am

I have always liked
Socianism
God's omniscience is limited to what is sure to happen not what could happen.
Paulicanism
the God and devil of xtianity are both real but evil.
the good God will come in the future.
what are yours

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05 Jun 2011, 9:29 am

It is VERY difficult to find a universal Christian heresy - one that all trinitarian Christians reject - that will still leave one inside trinitarian Christianity.

I think my most popular heresies - the ones rejected by the most Christians - are my antihierarchic position on the priesthood of all believers and my view of Christ's incarnation through resurrection as a homeopathic remedy.

The second MAY be unique to me, but theology is very diverse and an equivalent understanding may be somewhere in the documentation.

To most if not all of the classical heresies I am a heretic.

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05 Jun 2011, 9:51 am

Philologos wrote:

I think the second is held by christ scientists.

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05 Jun 2011, 9:56 am

One of my favorites is the concept of a demiurg.
A demiurge is an intermediate being lower than god who creates the material world. God planned it but the demiurge does the actual work.
The concept goes back to the prechristian philosophy of Plato but was incorperated into the theology of the Gnostic christians.

Not that I necessarly believe in it, but it struck me as amusing when I first ran across the concept.

God drew up the blue print for the universe, and then hired an incompetent tradesman to actually hang the drywall.

And thats why creation is so flawed!

It cracks me up!
That would explain certain things.

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05 Jun 2011, 9:57 am

No, not really. Key there is the evil as illusion, with a kind of psychotherapy approach to the thing - understand the source of the problem and it is no longer.

I have not been able to grasp fully how they feel Jesus fits in, but ewhat I have seen seems to have him being someone who understood the evil as maya thing and used the realization to heal.

If there is a view of Jesus as Heilmittel I have not encountered it. But you may easily know more about the Christian Scientists than I.

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05 Jun 2011, 11:37 am

@Jakob: There was one Christian heresy, early on, that involved hanging upside-down for 20 days to achieve purification. I've never been entirely certain that the author who mentioned it didn't slip it in as a joke...but I hope it's true. Past that, my favorites would be the Arian and Nestorian heresies - really, we have them to thank for the Nicene Creed and the Council of Ephesus.

@Philologos: "Christ's incarnation through resurrection as a homeopathic remedy" - elucidate?

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05 Jun 2011, 5:04 pm

the adamites were xtian nudests

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05 Jun 2011, 7:45 pm

My favorite is Heresy Bars with almonds.

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05 Jun 2011, 7:51 pm

My favorite Christian (Catholic) heresy is that I believe condoms stop AIDS.

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05 Jun 2011, 8:36 pm

Hell is a fabrication.

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05 Jun 2011, 8:40 pm

I am going to have to go with mormonism. After all I do reside in mormon zion. Jackson county, missouri is zion? really?