## Your Name JR4 1. Christology Chart – The Councils 2. Heresies – 18 Nasty No No’s! VIPs Apostolic Succession of Popes

JR4 Part 2 Yikes! So Many Heresies!

1. Adoptionism – God granted Jesus powers and then adopted him as a Son. 2. Albigenses – Reincarnation and two gods: one good and other evil. 3. Apollinarianism – Jesus’ divine will overshadowed and replaced the human.

4. Arianism – Jesus was only a lesser, created human being, not the good god in flesh. (Arius had Gnostic tendencies, so he thought flesh was created by an evil god.) 5. Docetism – Jesus was divine alone, but only seemed or appeared to be human. (Another Gnostic sect who believed the good god came to earth but certainly not in an evil flesh form.) 6. Donatism – The validity of sacraments depends on moral character of the minister. (So, only a priest without any sins can perform the sacraments. But who can claim to be without sin?)

7. Gnosticism – Dualism between a good god and an evil god that requires special knowledge from the good god for salvation. 8. Kenosis – Jesus gave up some divine attributes while on earth. (His “god energy” was turned down to low power so to speak.) 9. Modalism – God is one person in three modes (like a fictional Transformer going from robot to car to jet plane and back to robot again).

10. Monarchianism – God is one person. (This denies the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.) 11. Monophysitism – Jesus had only one nature: the divine nature. (This is a result of the Gnostic dualistic notion that Jesus is either only human or only divine but never both.) 12. Nestorianism – Jesus was two persons. (This is the Mary had “twins” theory. One was the evil fleshy man Jesus, and the other was the invisible good Christ.)

13. Patripassionism – God the Father suffered on the cross (hence, Jesus the man, faked it.) 14. Pelagianism – Man is unaffected by the fall and can keep all of God's laws. (Humans save themselves, so Jesus is not necessary for our salvation.) 15. Semi–Pelagianism – Man and God cooperate to achieve man's salvation. (Many Catholics hold this view that Faith and Good Works are necessary for human salvation. St. Paul, however, made it clear that God alone saves us when we place our Faith in Jesus. Faith leads to righteousness by God’s grace alone.)

16. Socinianism – Denial of the Trinity as one God in three persons. Jesus is a deified man. (God turned Jesus into another lesser god.) 17. Subordinationism – The Son is lesser than the Father in essence and or attributes. (God the Father is the Big Daddy and Jesus is a lesser being under the Father.) 18. Tritheism – the Trinity is really three separate gods. (Just another form of polytheism.)