Know the Heretics Quotes

“Marcion: The God of the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament are two different gods. Docetists: Jesus only appeared to be human. Arius: The Son was a created being of a lower order than the Father. Apollinarius: Jesus’ divine nature/Logos replaced the human rational soul in the incarnation. In other words, Jesus’ “pure” divine nature replaced the “filthy” mind of a typical human. Sabellius: Jesus and the Father are not distinct but just “modes” of a single being. Eutyches: The divinity of Christ overwhelms his humanity. Nestorius: Jesus was composed of two separate persons, one divine and one human.”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“However”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Believing right things about God is part of loving him”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“In Leo’s view”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“We are called to freedom (Gal. 5:1”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“In other words”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Too much enthusiastic faith without a corresponding degree of theological understanding is almost certain to lead to error”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“To Athanasius”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Perhaps one of the best reasons for complex Trinitarianism comes from C. S. Lewis”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“As Tertullian rightly declared”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Learning how Christians throughout history have wrestled with the tough questions of our faith gives us a valuable perspective and keeps us from assuming that our own know-how”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“As theologian Robert Reymond opines, human beings are born “with Pelagian hearts,”23 meaning all people are prone to attempt salvation through natural means from within ourselves, rather than through the supernatural means of relying on God’s grace.”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Ask most people, “Why would you go to heaven?” and if the person believes in heaven, a safe bet is that the answer will be, “Because I’ve tried my best to be a good person.” One arrives at this common answer because of a combination of three basic Pelagian concepts: 1. Freedom is defined as independence from God’s sovereignty. 2. Original sin is rejected; we are all born good. Sin is only in the act of the will. 3. Grace as unmerited favor from God is rejected, ignored, or unknown. The combination of these three results in personal morality as the basis for salvation. But this must be rejected, as it is clear from Scripture that “[t]here is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God” (Rom. 3:10 – 11). This is because of original sin, as Paul writes, for “just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned” (Rom. 5:12).”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“The orthodox doctrine of the Trinity taught that there are multiple (three) persons, but they all share one nature in the Godhead, preserving monotheism. Conversely, the personhood of Christ shares multiple (two) natures — God and man, timeless and subject to time, invisible and visible — yet he is one person.15”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics

“Whereas orthodox Christianity answers Jesus’ question to Peter — “Who do you say I am?” (Mark 8:29) — by affirming that Christ was both God (the Creator of the universe, the Lord of Israel) and human (an average Joe, yet without sin), these heretical thinkers answered the question differently.”
― Justin S. Holcomb, Know the Heretics