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=What is heresy?=

The word "heresy" only appears once in the [[The King James Version of the Bible|KJV]] but is translated as "sect" in most modern biblical translations.

:''“But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a '''sect''' I do serve the God of our fathers...<ref>New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ac 24:14.</ref>



=Major heresies in the early church=


==Gnosticism==


==Quartodecimanism==



==Montanism==



==Monarchianism==

===Dynamic Monarchianism (aka Adoptionism)==



===Modalistic Monarchianism (aka Sabellianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Oneness, Jesus Only)===

==Donatism==



==Arianism==


==Monophysitism==



==Pelagianism==



==Adoptionism==



==Nestorianism==



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