[NYer]

Additional Resource:

HERESIES and CONDEMNED DOCTRINES

[flying_bullet]

Hilaire Belloc also considered Islam to be a “peculiar heresy”.

[Salvation]

Know Your Heresies

The Rev. John Piper: an interesting look at "heresy vs. schism"

Pietism as an Ecclesiological Heresy

Heresy

Arian Heresy Still Tempts, Says Cardinal Bertone (Mentions Pelagianism As Well)

Catholic Discussion] Church group stays faithful (to heresy!)

Where heresy and dissent abound [Minnesota]

Gnostic Gospels - the heresy entitled "Gnosticism."

The So-Called ‘Gospel’ of Judas: Unmasking an Ancient Heresy

[Truth Defender]

Heresies have been with us from the Church’s beginning. They even have been started by Church leaders, who were then corrected by councils and popes. Fortunately, we have Christ’s promise that heresies will never prevail against the Church, for he told Peter, "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). The Church is truly, in Paul’s words, "the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15).

NIHIL OBSTAT: I have concluded that the materials presented in this work are free of doctrinal or moral errors. Bernadeane Carr, STL, Censor Librorum, August 10, 2004

Using the words “the gates of hell will not prevail against it” to prove that heresies will never prevail against the church is in itself a false doctrine, or at the very least, one of the poorest biblical claims I’ve run across. It must be that the one checking these “heretical” position claims, as the Nihil Obstat states, doesn’t realize what he is saying. What does “heresy” have to do with the “gates of hell”? Absolutely nothing! Even the reference to I Tim. 3:15 is a very poor exegesis of what it teaches, especially in the insinuation it presents.