REFUTE HERETICAL GROUPS

DISPUTE AGAINST OTHER ERRORS

Legend for Cells

r1. Dispute with Ebionites/Judaizers (Partial) Col 2:16-17

D1. Do not judge/condemn others Mt 7:1-5; Lk 6:37

W = Wrote explicitly on this teaching

r2. Simon Magus and his heresy/error (Partial) Acts 8

D2. Dispute against Judaism Acts 3:23; Rom 9:1-2

I = Implied as true or opposite is false

r3. Against Marcion (partial)1Jn4;2Jn7

D3. Dispute against Greco-Roman paganism

N = Implied since accepted Nicene Creed

r4. Dispute against Valentinian Gnostics

D4. Dispute philosophy that denies One God

m = Mixed: some agree, others did not

r5. Dispute against Sethians or Ophites

D5. Dispute against the Magi / Zoroastrians

P = Partial (ex: Justin Martyr on  r3: Marcion, but not many heresies)

r6. Dispute against Encratite Gnostics (Partial) 1 Tim 4:3

D6. Dispute Indians/Bra[c]hmans/Gymnosophist

r7. Dispute against other Gnostics          (Partial) 1 Jn 4:2

D7. Dispute Egyptian myths

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r8. No mixing Christ and other religions 1Jn 4:3;Gal 1:8-9

D8. Dispute Chaldean/Babylonian religion

X = Disagree

r9. Avoid docetic belief-not suffer in flesh.partial 1Jn4:2-

D9. Dispute Syrian or Arabian religions

blank = not researched yet

r10. Dispute against Sabellians (Oneness)

D10. Dispute Druid or other European myths

Writer totals include W’s & I’s but not P’s

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

Pages

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Nero and Domitian persecute Christians

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est. 500K Christians. Labeled atheists; killed for refusing to worship emperor/idols

Clement of Rome (wrote 1 Clement)

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Ignatius disciple of John (shortest version)

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Trajan persecutes Christians

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Answered Pliny the Younger’s letter. Christians not sought after but killed if found

Didache (=Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)

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Hadrian persecutes Christians

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Hadrian loved Greek culture, and he persecuted both Jewish & Christian people

Bar Cochba persecutes Christians

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Christians persecuted in Israel because they would not join Bar Cochba’s revolt.

Letter of Barnabas

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Justin Martyr, philosopher and apologist

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Shepherd of Hermas

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Evarestus’ Martyrdom of Polycarp

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Gnostic heresies become widespread

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Gnostics believed Creator was evil or foolish, rejected O.T., mixed in paganism.

Tatian+Diatessaron. Encratite Gnostic later

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Dionysius of Corinth (wrote against Marcion)

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p66 Bodmer II Papyrii - 817 verses (92%) of John

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p4+p64+p67 Lk 1:58-59,etc. Mt 26:7-8,etc. 95 verses

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p90 Jn 18:36-19:7 (11 verses)

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Persecution of Marcus Aurelius

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Aurelius was a Stoic philosopher. Persecution mainly in Gaul, ended when he died

Christians of Vienna and Lugdunum (Lyons)

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Athenagoras (apologist)

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Ebionites & Clementina (OT Law,Father,Son)

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Irenaeus of Lyons, disciple of Polycarp

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Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs -died 180 A.D.

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p32 (=P. Rylands 5) Titus 1:1-15; 2:3-8 (21 verses)

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Sabellian heresy (Praxeas, Noetus, Callistus)

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Also called Patripassians, they believed Father, Son, & Spirit were one person.

Persecution of Septimus Severus

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est. 2M Christians. A Christian helped him when ill, but didn’t repeal existing laws

Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas

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Romans kill first known martyrs in Britain

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Alban, Julius, and Aaron were formerly thought killed in 304/5 A.D.

Serapion of Antioch (against Marcion)

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Apollonius of Ephesus (against Montanists)

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Clement of Alexandria

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p75 Lk 3:18-22; etc. Jn 1:1-11:45,etc. 1,166 verses

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Tertullian (joined the Montanist Church)

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Tertullian’s 5 Books Against Marcion

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Asterius Urbanus (against Montanists)

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Elchasaite Ebionites (said Jesus God’s Son)

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Hippolytus, pupil of Irenaeus (undisputed)

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Maximin Thrax persecutes Christians

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First empire-wide persecution, but only of clergy. It stopped when he was killed.

Instructions of Commodianus

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Severe persecution by Decius and Gallus

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1st Christian schism. Could fallen Christians return or doomed forever (Novatian)

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Cyprian of Carthage (against Novatian)

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