Sunday, July 16, 2006

Heretical Unity?

I heard an interesting definition of heresy the other night. The argument basically went that heresy, in addition to meaning all of the usual lack of doctrinal conformity, should include those who seek to destroy the unity of the church. Therefore, a heretic may be someone who has the catechism nailed, the Psalms memorized, crosses "t's" and dots all the "i's", but takes Christ's seemless garment and rends it in pieces. So we further fragment and reunite in what is often the case, and I am only meaning Christians here, a bond of heretical unity.

1 Comments:

Blogger Nathan Seldomridge said...

That meaning of "heretic" fits into the usual meaning when we consider that to harbor divisions among us is to lie about Christ.

And we should never think about heresy solely in terms of telling false truths, because that ignores the way truths should be tested: by Scripture, interpreted by the church.

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