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heresy
Categories: god, forty-blogs-of-lent
Tags: God, Jesus, Christ
Date: 24 February 2012 00:23:10
Forty blogs of Lent
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The Letter of Paul to the Colossians, in the Bible is about heresy. The Apostle Paul writes to the Church in Colossae because false teaching has got into their church.
What I find interesting is that Paul forgets to say what that false teaching was. Or rather he deliberately does not mention the false teachings, but rather points them towards Jesus Christ, saying that Christ alone is all we need. Not something instead of Christ, or Christ plus anything. Just Christ. That's it.
How times have changed.
These days there many, many books internet articles and blogs where the thing that is not agreed with is analysed at length, and taken apart bit by bit.
Paul took a different approach. The witers of the Christian creeds took Paul's approach too.
The Apostles Creed does not take a long look at Gnosticism, though that was prevalent at the time it was written.
Neither does the Nicene Creed go on about Arianism.
Would it be better if instead of putting all our time and effort into saying why we don't believe what someone says we put the effort into saying what we actually believe in?