"You're a hertic," "You're another," "Am not," "Are too," is this going to bring peace and end heavy metal?
Let's unite around that rule...
Very rarely (aside from one particular section where I was trying to get someone to clarify a statement where they said that God the Word has no flesh, and I said they were skirting the edges ofMonophysitism and Docetism) have I thrown out the heresy charge in my conversations. I'm trying to make my statements and back them up with Scripture. Thus far, I've been called Arian (despite my explicit referral to the eternal preexistence of Jesus as God and third person of the trinity; a Nestorian despite my explicit reference to believing in two natures in union in one person who is 100% God and 100% Man, a Sabellian, and who knows what else. Now, it appears they just want to say "heretic" because they like saying it. Oh well).
I'm willing to play nice, but folks have to be willing to listen to what you actually say rather than what they want to think you said.
Dear Mad Dawg,
I hadn't noticed that anyone had called anyone a heretic.
Several posters have pointed out that refusing to call Mary the Mother of God IS heresy, but that's not the same as calling someone a heretic, not by a very long stretch.
I don't see how it is inappropriate to note that a particular belief is at odds with the teaching of the Undivided, Universal Church, as bindingly defined by an Ecumencial Council. For Catholics and Orthodox, to deny the ratified and confirmed binding teaching of a Council is to speak (or write) heresy.
That doesn't strike me as polemical or harsh. Just a fact.
But, again, as far as I can see (and I read all of the posts still extant), no one has called anyone else a heretic.
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