Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess. (Deuteronomy 5:33)

“For it is known with complete certainty from the scriptures and is thus to be devoutly believed and the mind’s eye can also achieve a faint but undoubted glimpse of the truth that the father is, and the son is, and the Holy Spirit is, and that the son is not the same as the father is, nor is the Holy Spirit the same as the Father or the Son.

So human inadequacy searched for a word to express three what, and it said substances or persons. By these names it did not wish to give any idea of diversity, but it wished to avoid any idea of singleness; so that as well as understanding unity in God, whereby there is said to be one being, we might also understand trinity, whereby there are also said to be three substances or persons.”

- St. Augustine, “The Trinity”

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Episode Summary/For Further Exploration

Why Do This Study?

“Heresy” within Christianity isn’t limited to the pages and annuls of history. Rather, Heresies exist in various forms and haven’t lost any of their potency to corrupt our right, Christ-honoring understanding, faith, or worship. Just as we can use scripture wrong, we can carry incorrect belief, often without knowing. We will discuss a few heresies and how each of these have clung on through time and in which ways they may have latched onto our lives.

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Related Scripture Passages

28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all c; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”.

(John 10:28-30)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5)

22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:22)

3 Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. (Acts 2:33)

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