Pastor John:<\/p>\n
According to these definitions, taken from [Merriam-Webster Dictionary], what’s wrong with calling ourselves heretics, not just so-called but in fact?<\/p>\n
1: a dissenter from established religious dogma; especially: a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth<\/p>\n
2: one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine: Nonconformist<\/p>\n
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The original Greek word for heretic meant a sectarian, and Paul strongly condemned such people. They promote division with their own opinions and theories.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n As for “nonconformist” is concerned, by the light we have from God, we are being constantly “conformed to Christ”, as Paul said. So, that term doesn’t apply to us, either.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Lastly, I really don’t consider myself to be “a dissenting from established religious dogma”. No Christian dogma that I know of is established. Christian doctrine has been evolving since the beginning of Christianity. Many times, additions have been made to it. I believe that the truth of the gospel is the only established dogma (it will never evolve or change) and that everyone who teaches contrary to it is a heretic.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor John: According to these definitions, taken from [Merriam-Webster Dictionary], what’s wrong with calling ourselves heretics, not just so-called but in fact? 1: a dissenter from established religious dogma; especially: a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth 2: one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine: Nonconformist BC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}