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To: Lurker
Lurker: "If it was written by one of The 12, how can it be heresy?"

Historically, heresies have seldom involved disputes over what the Bible does say, but rather interpretations of what it doesn't say.
At the time of Constantine and the Council of Nicaea, heresies were declared over words like "homoousios", and "hypostasis", neither of which are found in the Bible.

51 posted on 05/26/2013 4:01:19 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

The word “Pope” isn’t found in the Bible either.


52 posted on 05/26/2013 4:32:02 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: BroJoeK

Homoousios is a word that tells us that when Jesus said, “The Father and I are one.” he meant exactly that. Arius would not use the term because he interpreted the term to be a figure of speech. He and his followers did not think that Jesus was God Incarnate.


151 posted on 05/27/2013 8:35:25 PM PDT by RobbyS
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