Heresies and How to Avoid Them Why It Matters What Christians Believe

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Heresies of the Person of christ and how to avoid Them Arianism : Is Jesus Christ divine and Eternal or Was he Created ................15 Docetism : Is Jesus christ really human or did he just appear to be so ?.............24 Nestorianism : Is Jesus christ one person or does he have a Split identity with his divine nature separate and divided from his Human Nature....32 Eutychianism: Is Jesus Christ divine and human or a Hybrid, a third thing that is Neither fully one nor the other ......41 Adoptionism : Is Jesus Christ the son of God by Nature or by Adoption .......50 Theopaschitism : Is Jesus Christ able or Unable to Suffer in his Divine Nature ........59 2. Heresis of the Church and christian living and how to avoid Them Marcionism : Can Christians dispense with the God of the Old Testament ?................73 Donatism : Do Christian Ministers need to be Faultless for their Ministrations to be Effective? ................81 Pelagianism : Can People be saved by Their own efforts .........91 Gnosticism : Can people be Saved by Acquiring secret Knowledge .......102 The Heresy of the Free spirit : Are there two Kinds of Christian, those with divine wills and those with human Wills .......113 Biblical Trinitarianism: The purpose of being orthodox .......122