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1 | Identifying Heresy | Hos 8:12 | DocTrinsograce | 182013 | ||
James A. Fowler offers us some guidelines for identifying heresy: "(1) Scriptural standard. In all the major communities of the Christian faith the scriptures are regarded as an objective and definitive standard for the determination of normative Christian teaching. Although Protestants have elevated the scriptures with an undue emphasis of sola scriptura that regards the Bible as the infallible word of God equivalent to the living Word (John 1:1,14), we must still recognize that Jesus declared that the scriptures 'bear witness to Me' (John 5:39), and 'cannot be broken' (John 10:35). To the Sadducees, Jesus explained, 'You are mistaken, not understanding the scriptures' (Matthew 22:29). Paul's regard for the scriptural standard is clear: 'All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness' (2 Timothy 3:16). "(2) Gospel consistency. The scriptural writings do not address every pertinent detail of every Christian subject. Christians are called upon to use spiritual discernment and sanctified common sense in determining the consistency of any teaching with gospel message of God's grace in redemption, reconciliation, and restoration. Paul anathematized the heretical false teachers who had invaded Galatia, and chastised the Galatian believers for 'so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel, which is not really another gospel, but some are disturbing you, and want to distort the gospel of Christ' (Galatians 1:6-7). "(3) Creedal formulation. We must avoid the arrogant and foolish tendency to ignore the precision with which the early Christians sought to formulate the Christian message in succinct statements of creedal orthodoxy. Jude encouraged his readers to 'contend for the faith which was once and for all delivered to the saints' (Jude 3). It is extremely important that we recognize the reliable expressions of essential truths that are found in the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Chalcedonian Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. Those who claim to espouse 'no creed but Christ,' fail to understand how the early saints painfully sought to explain Christ in creedal statements. "(4) Ecclesiastical consensus. The accumulated wisdom of twenty centuries of Christian tradition is not to be rejected. The past and present consensus of the community of faith must be given due consideration, for Jesus declared, 'the gates of Hades shall not overpower it' (Matthew 16:18). There is an essential and catholic, i.e. universal, confession of faith to be found in Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism pertaining to the Trinity, the incarnation of Christ, the redemptive efficacy of the crucifixion and resurrection, the spiritual regeneration of salvation, and the importance of the church. We must align ourselves with what all Christians in all times and in all places have believed." |
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2 | Identifying Heresy | Hos 8:12 | srbaegon | 182020 | ||
Hello Doc, If I may add from Tertullian: From this, therefore, do we draw up our rule. Since the Lord Jesus Christ sent the apostles to preach, our rule is that no others ought to be received as preachers than those whom Christ appointed; for "no man knoweth the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." Nor does the Son seem to have revealed Him to any other than the apostles, whom He sent forth to preach—-that, of course, which He revealed to them. Now, what that was which they preached—-in other words, what it was which Christ revealed to them—-can, as I must here likewise prescribe, properly be proved in no other way than by those very churches which the apostles founded in person, by declaring the gospel to them directly themselves, both viva voce, as the phrase is, and subsequently by their epistles. If, then, these things are so, it is in the same degree manifest that all doctrine which agrees with the apostolic churches-—those moulds and original sources of the faith must be reckoned for truth, as undoubtedly containing that which the said churches received from the apostles, the apostles from Christ, Christ from God. Whereas all doctrine must be prejudged as false which savours of contrariety to the truth of the churches and apostles of Christ and God. It remains, then, that we demonstrate whether this doctrine of ours, of which we have now given the rule, has its origin in the tradition of the apostles, and whether all other doctrines do not ipso facto proceed from falsehood. We hold communion with the apostolic churches because our doctrine is in no respect different from theirs. This is our witness of truth. Steve |
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