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"Heresy is dishonouring to God and cruel to people."
- Martin Downes
The Reformed orthodox in connection with the idea of fundamental articles, note three kinds of doctrinal error:
(1) errors directly against a fundamental article (contra fundamentum)
(2) errors around a fundamental or in indirect contradiction to it (circa fundamentum)
(3) errors beyond a fundamental article (praeter fundamentum)
The first kind of error is a direct attack--such as those launched by the Socinians--against the divinity of Christ or the Trinity. The second is not a direct negation or an antithesis but rather an indirect or secondary error ultimately subversive of a fundamental--such as a belief in God that refuses to acknowledge his providence. The third category of error does not address fundamental articles directly or indirectly but rather involves faith in problematic and curious questions (quaestiones problematicas et curiosas) that do not arise out of the revealed Word--hay and stubble!--and that, because of their curiosity and vanity, constitute diversions from and impediments to salvation.
Richard Muller, Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics Vol. 1:Prolegomena to Theology, p. 422-3
"I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order...when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon."
- Martin Luther
-William Gurnall
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The History of Heresy - Five Errors that Refuse to Die ![]() |
Phil Johnson (pdf) - Legalism, Gnosticism, Arianism, Pelagiansim and Socinianism |
Handbook of Today's Religions ![]() |
Josh McDowell & Don Stewart - A fairly exhaustive resource explaining how other world religions, cults, age groups, agnoticism, secularism, humanism, sects, etc. differ from biblical Christianity. |
Historic Heresies ![]() |
Christian Apologetics and Research Minstry |
Virtual Religion Index ![]() |
Excellent academic site dedicated to major religions and cults. |
Tolerance, Truth-Telling, Violence and Law ![]() |
John Piper - Principles for How Christians Should Relate to Those of Other Faiths |
Approaching Cults and World Religions from A Presuppositional Apologetic Perspective ![]() |
Jeff Downs |
A Biblical Guide To Orthodoxy And Heresy ![]() |
Robert M. Bowman |
The Biblical Basis of Christian Apologetics and Counter-Cult Ministry ![]() |
James White - “Would Jesus have done that?” A Biblical Look at Defending the Faith |
What Makes a Church or Group Non-Christian? ![]() |
Matt Slick |
So, Are You a Heretic? ![]() |
Find out here whether you are 100% Chalcedon compliant |
A Short Look at Six World Religions ![]() |
Sue Bohlin - An overview of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses from a Christian perspective. |
Cults ![]() |
Paul Seiler |
A Diagnosis ![]() |
Thomas Adams |
The Church of Oprah Exposed (YouTube) ![]() |
Oprah |
A Look at “The Shack” (MP3) ![]() |
Al Mohler |
The New Spirituality: Dismantling and Reconstructing Reality ![]() |
Peter R. Jones |
Eastern Healing, Alternative Medicine, and Christian Faith ![]() |
John Catanzaro |
Heresies (Chart & Timeline) ![]() |
Phil Johnson |
Sin in High Places (.pdf) ![]() |
Carl Trueman, Chapter Two from Risking The Truth: Handling Error in the Church |
Suffering and a Theology of Glory ![]() |
Michael S. Horton |
Cults (24 MP3 Lectures) ![]() |
Dr. Phil Fernandes |
An Exegesis of Colossians 2:8-12 ![]() |
Scott J. Simmons |
The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering ![]() |
Mark Oppenheimer |
Secular Psychology and Christianity: Two World Views (MP3) ![]() |
Dr. Richard Ganz |
Those Pre-Christian Deities Aren’t Much Like Jesus After All ![]() |
J. Warner Wallace |
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Recommended Reading
Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church
by Harold O. J. Brown
Christianity And Its Competitors
by James McGoldrick
Defence of the Truth
by Michael Haykin
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