2020年5月29日 · Adoptionism had been declared a heresy by the Synod of Antioch in A.D. 268, which meant that neither Lucian, Arius, nor Eusebius could openly embrace it. After that Synod, anyone who dared claim that Jesus Christ was not in any sense God but only a human prophet adopted by God into a special, unique, relationship would likely lose their church ...

2022年4月28日 · The Ebionites are perhaps the earliest, clear example, emphasizing Jesus' humanity, and are an example of 'adoptionism'. These sorts of views later developed as Monarchianism, and writers in this tradition include Theodotus of Byzantium and Paul of Samosata. Some Montanists were also Monarchians, but not all.

2017年5月4日 · For example, Ignatius has been accused of economic trinitarianism (see below), and Kelly calls the theology of Hermas an "amalgam of binitarianism and adoptionism." (94) (94) Regarding the Apologists (like Justin Martyr and Athenagoras ), Kelly reports that they are often criticized for failing to teach the eternal generation of the Son, and by ...

2018年2月1日 · Arius learned this heresy of adoptionism from other presbyters before him, most notable was Paul of Samosota. But the source was most likely Theodotus of Byzantium. The key point here is that the heresy arose out of persecution. Christians were compelled to worship other gods or lose their heads. Many thus denied Christ.

2017年10月24日 · The first belief amongst Christians was that of adoptionism, which is related to docetism. Some docetists had adoptionists beliefs: instead of Jesus always being a projection of God, at his baptism Jesus the human was endowed with Christ, the messiah. This is why no amazing stories exist of Jesus as an infant, teenager nor young adult.

2015年1月5日 · In the fourth century, Christians in the East had a controversy concerning the doctrine about Jesus' relationship with God the Father.This time it was Christians themselves who are theologically at war.Creeds were written and anathemas were spoken but in the end, what was faithful to the apostolic teaching won.

By its very nature, a dogma 1 makes its deniers officially heretics (ipso facto at the least) only because of its dogmatic, unequivocal nature as taught unambiguously as the faith of the Church, by unanimity of the Fathers, or a General Council, or the Pope ex cathedra. 2 Before something is made a dogma, it is simply be, for lack of a better word, unofficial official doctrine—the status quo ...

2014年7月7日 · Modalism, or Sabellianism, is the belief that the three persons of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit) are simply three "roles" or "modes" of the same person.

2015年1月20日 · Arius probably quoted the following: Revelation 3:14: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. Psalm 8:5–6: thou madest Him Proverbs 8:22–2...

2021年4月8日 · Adoptionism, reflected in canonical epistles, the earliest of which pre-date the writing of the gospels. The letters of Paul the Apostle, for example, do not mention a virgin birth of Christ. The letters of Paul the Apostle, for example, do not mention a virgin birth of Christ.