Ch 8

Question 1

Who where the Ebionites

Answer 1

• Jewish group of people that believed in the unity and creationship of God.
• They believed that you expressed His will through following the Jewish law.
• Jesus was just Josephs son but gained deity through his baptism when the spirit came upon Him.
• (Listened to matthews teachings but not Pauls)
• No salvation except from circumcision

Question 2

There is no such thing as a _____ false doctrine.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as a new false doctrine.

Question 3

What was a popular Philosophical Heresy:

Answer 3

Gnosticism

Question 4

Gnosticism

Answer 4

• Matter was evil and spirit was good

- They created a philosophy where God was separated from the evil world.

Question 5

What were the two schools of Gnosticism?

Answer 5

Syrain School: (Saturninus)

Egyptian School: (Basilides)

Question 6

Who was the most influencial Gnostic

Answer 6

Marcion, from Pontus

Question 7

Philospohical heresies are:

Answer 7

Those who sought to make Christianity intelluctually respectable.

Question 8

Legalistic heresies are ______________

Answer 8

brought by leaders with a unique spiritual interpretation

Question 9

Three problems with the doctrinal viewpoint of Ebionitism:

Answer 9

1. Paul had taught against salvation through keeping the law.
2. A failure to fully accept the completed work begun and finished by on the cross.
3. It was salvation based on good works.

Question 10

Philosophical Heresies tried to explain Christianity in _____ _______.

Answer 10

Philosophical terms

Question 11

Philosophers wanted to ______ with philosophy and created an instutuion of ______ _____ in a Christian facade.

Answer 11

Philosophers wanted to dilute with philosophy and created an instutuion of pegan philosophy in a Christian facade.

Question 12

Gnosticism got its name from the Greek word (gnostikos) which means:

Answer 12

one who has knowledge

Question 13

Manichean Heresy

Answer 13

A combination of Christian thought, Zoroastrianism and other oriental religious ideas into a dualistic philosophy.

Question 14

Neoplatonism:

Answer 14

A philosophical system in the 3rd century in Alexandriaby Plotinus, founded on Platonic doctrine and Oriental mysticism.

Question 15

Monarchanism:

Answer 15

A viewpoint which is now thought to be strictly heretical by adherents of a Trinitarian view of the Godhead.

Question 16

Two forms of Monatchianism:

Answer 16

1. Dynamic

2. Modalistic

Question 17

Dynamic Monatchianism:

Answer 17

Christ was not divine, merely a good man

Question 18

What was the arguement in the Easter Controversy?

Answer 18

Whether or not to have easter on:

• the 14th day of Nisan aka passover
• the sunday following the 14th day of Nisan