What constitutes heresy?

Sad, people are like that. I can understand though, I was going to post how my wife looks great in jeans or some stylish trousers, but I can understand how that could be misinterpreted. Maybe islam is right and women should wear the burka.

NOT.

Thing is we are all SO different.

 

We shoudl be careful to note that not all pentecostals are "oneness" pentecostals. For example, Foursquare churches are pentecostal, but are not oneness. They affirm the trinity by faith and practice.

 

heretic!...oh wait, nevermind...:thumbs:

My uncle-in-law (that works right?) is COC and he believes everyone is a heretic but those attending his church. Worse, he believes we're all not ending up in Heaven. COC believes everyone but them are heretics. They're crazy.

Oneness Pentecostals are heretics.

Actualy, Seventh Day people believe in Hell but are annihilationists.

This is their direct belief statment from their website: The unrighteous dead will then be resurrected, and with Satan and his angels will surround the city; but fire from God will consume them and cleanse the earth. The universe will thus be freed of sin and sinners forever.

Annihilationism isn't heresy.

Directly, the Bible and what it explicitly teaches. Indirectly, as they have been affirmed by the Church since Acts 2, the resultant councils and synods, and the general teaching carried through to today.

 

The Lord knows those who are His.

I would say that those you mentioned are in error. I had one run in with the Church of Christ people. And one of them dared to say I was not the Lords.

Trinity denial speaks for itself.

No hell. I would like to believe them but I do not see it in Scripture, besides, a very dangerous doctrine as you lose the fear of God.

Long hair? What length? Or just in a feminine way? What about Nazarites? Book of Numbers 6

 

Interesting. Perhaps that's a reasonable rule of thumb. If it's an EXPLICIT teaching in scripture, then it might be considered core, but if it's IMPLICIT, then is can be considered noncore.

Of course, some people will still claim that, for example, that the ban on women wearing pants, or a ban on consuming alcohol, is explicit, when, in fact, it is not (in those cases, they're not even implicit, but people make docrines out of them anyway).

A good example is our own custom of baptism. We practice adult, believer's immersion as a prerequisite for membership in our churches. Yet this neither explicit nor implicit in scripture as a church membership requirement.

Just brainstorming there.

 

Hallelujah! I am 100% bona fide true blue non-heartick!

Thanks OR.

 

Then there are lots on this board. Eternal redemption is over and done, yet they talk about it like it's still to be obtained by Christ for the sinner with the latter's cooperation. That is a denial of what is written in there.
Hebrews 9:12.

 

...wow....Pinoy, looking at your avatar really surprises me; I would've never figgered you as being the bashful type!

 

It's supposed to be a happy chimp. I guess it got so frustrated it ended up covering its eyes.
lol.