#Against Heresies

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (June 28)

Celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church on June 28, and by Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine tradition on August 23, Saint Irenaeus of Lyons was a second-century bishop and writer in present-day France.

He is best known for defending Christian orthodoxy, especially the reality of Christ’s human incarnation against the set of heresies known as Gnosticism.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke admiringly of St. Irenaeus in a 2007 general audience, recalling how this early Church Father “refuted the Gnostic dualism and pessimism, which debased corporeal realities.

He decisively claimed the original holiness of matter, of the body, of the flesh no less than of the spirit.

But his work went far beyond the confutation of heresy: in fact, one can say that he emerges as the first great Church theologian who created systematic theology; he himself speaks of the system of theology, that is, of the internal coherence of all faith.”

While some of St. Irenaeus’ most important writings have survived, the details of his life are not as well-preserved.

He was born in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, likely in the Aegean coastal city of Smyrna, probably around the year 140.

As a young man, he heard the preaching of the early bishop (and eventual martyr) Saint Polycarp, who had been personally instructed by the Apostle John.

Irenaeus eventually became a priest and served in the Church of Lyons (in the region of Gaul) during a difficult period in the late 170s.

During this time of state persecution and doctrinal controversy, Irenaeus was sent to Rome to provide Pope St. Eleutherius with a letter about the heretical movement known as Montanism.

After returning to Lyons, Irenaeus became the city’s second bishop, following the martyrdom of his predecessor Saint Pothinus.

In the course of his work as a pastor and evangelist, the second Bishop of Lyon came up against various heretical doctrines and movements, many of which sounded a common note in their insistence that the material world was evil and not part of God’s original plan.

The proponents of these ideas often claimed to be more deeply “enlightened” or “spiritual” than ordinary Christians, on account of their supposed secret knowledge (or “gnosis”).

Irenaeus recognized this movement, in all its forms, as a direct attack on the Catholic faith.

The Gnostics’ disdain for the physical world was irreconcilable with the Biblical doctrine of creation, which stated that God had made all things according to his good purpose.

Gnostics, by contrast, saw the material world as the work of an evil power, crediting God only with the creation of a higher and purely spiritual realm.

In keeping with its false view of creation, Gnosticism also distorted the concept of redemption.

The Church knew Christ as the savior of the world: redeeming believers’ bodies and souls, and investing creation with a sacramental holiness.

Gnostics, meanwhile, saw Jesus merely as saving souls from the physical world in which they were trapped.

Gnostic “redemption” was not liberation from sin but a supposed promise of release from the material world.

Irenaeus refuted the Gnostic errors in his lengthy book “Against Heresies,” which is still studied today for its historical value and theological insights.

A shorter work, the “Proof of the Apostolic Preaching,” contains Irenaeus’ presentation of the Gospel message, with a focus on Jesus Christ’s fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies.

Several of his other works are now lost, though a collection of fragments from them has been compiled and translated.

St. Irenaeus’ earthly life ended around 202 – possibly through martyrdom, though this is not definitively known.

#Saint of the Day #Saint Irenaeus of Lyons #Against Heresies #Proof of the Apostolic Preaching

[bluefire-axolotl]

So I heard there’s save-scumming discourse in the Baldurs Gate fandom and decided to present my own personal unhinged take

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate meme #time loop #sorry i cant hear you over watching my character depserately unwind the fabric of time again and again to try and save everyone #Gale worried my wizard will hate him for his ‘folley’ but they can only see the same act of heresy against magic in the name of love #that they themself have done over and over and OVER again

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan but it's about The Biblical Fall

#if someone takes this too serious and gets mad at me for heresy I'm deleting my blog #but also. you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. about man's constant longing for God despite rebelling against him perhaps

[jimkinnz]

homunculus facts¡

at this festive time of year' it pays to remember that as a virgin birth' jesus legally counts as a sub·form of homunculus• but that,s between the persons of the trinity to sort out not me•

master recently altered his recipe to produce a large batch of gingerbread homunculi• there was a bloody uprising and now most of them are part of a house decorated with candies•

i sledded down a snowy hill yesterday in a cauldron• it was as fun as you would imagine• (⁠✷⁠‿⁠✷⁠)

rumor has it that a new movie planned by the disney company will be cast entirely from a pool of acting homunculi to reduce labor costs• i,d believe it• we,re cheaper than union labor• you just have to commit sins against life itself' which is no barrier to the mouse•

@numamazza is a good cousin and will eat gnomes for me•

one of the new gingerbread homunculi could type with capital letters and regular punctuation• that scares me' i,m glad he,s dead• (ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)

#homunculus #homunculus facts #wizardposting #unreality #alchemy #christmas #heresy #gingerbread house of horrors #sledding #disney #numamazza #i hate gnomes so much #typing quirk #crimes against humanity

[vampiresuns]

having a tav that's a Lloth-sworn life domain cleric of a noble background who before getting yeeted into the nautiloid was a sacrificial priestess (gn) during one of the cycles of Drow society and had their own altar and temple under their care, means Solune would have the most insane however many minutes they spent interacting with Minthara and I am obsessed about it. As far as I'm conceptualising it, I'm thinking of Lloth as extremely Ungoliant-like. Goddess of hunger, goddess of wanting and consumption, goddess of excess and exuberance, goddess who unmasked the hypocritical gods of starvation, guilt and purity into a society that cherishes a certain kind of clarity about the double standard they impose. For Drow are evil for their wars and their wanting and their taking, but those other people with their other gods kill, warmonger and enslave with no regard and no self-awareness, calling the indignation about receiving scraps from a bunch of silent, unrepentant gods, "guilt and shame". There is violence in denial and her Children will not suffer it.

In the season of Life, they do not sacrifice the unwilling. It is taboo. The only sacrifice that matters is the desire to be devoured and destroyed by the things you love the most.

And Solune sees Minthara and is like fucking finally, someone rational enough to get what I'm going through, that they're losing their mind that their life was taken from them and if they become this other thing, if they transform, if they do not remain Luxe Solune Mizzmyrra, Life Knife of Lloth, they're never going to be able to be reintegrated into that life. They will die away from home, from their temple, from their (first) spouse, from their mother and their siblings and there won't be the day when they too succumb to the knife, when it is time, when the day they no longer feel hunger comes.

And then the parasite gives them an in into Minthara thinking she was raised from the darkness into a FALSE GOD? One thing you do not do is steal from Lady Lloth, and oh my god, there could've been a time, a chance that existed only in ignorance, of Solune lending a hand to Minthara but this to them is unforgivable because Solune is genuinely a good friend to their friends, but if you keep peeking into whatever mindset nobility and religious authority has given them it's like realising your friend is a cesspool of "what the actual and everliving fuck", and when the knife of the morningstar priestess comes down on Minthara it won't be with love but with absolute rage, grief and disgust and I will be thinking about this for evermore. Thanks, I'm not well

#bg3 #bg: solune #minthara #i love Solune they're so fun to build with because it's like sometimes organically they will reach the same conclusion as Wyll about sth #(I did NOT expect them to get along but he is their highest approval followed by Lae'zel) #but it's someone who has such an Alien concept of society to literally everyone else in the party. Solune is (fundamentally!!!) land owning #power concentrating nobility and no matter what they do not matter what conclusion their reach this specific brand of social conservativism #and verticality informs them to their very core. however also and cannot be dismissed that bc of how I'm conceptualising Lloth #(sorry but to write a vertical society that just brutalises itself what is this? western europe? fuck off) #Solune is by some contradiction one of the most You Do You people possible. but like. to a weird extreme and a wouldn't thou like to live #deliciously manner. oh you want to be FREE from your past then BE IT. oh you want to find your place in the world? then let that place #consume you and change you forever until the day there is no more than hungers in you and you can truly say you have lived #terrible enabling force but also extreme nurturing capacity #and above all they want that life back and sympathise with those feelings so well #but if there is one thing they cannot stand and that they will maim you on the spot about is heresy against lloth because you were not give #the gift of unmasking the hypocrisy of the gods of the above to waste yourself turning your back against the underdark jewels of Drow citie #there where the darkness does not mean shadows but the glimmering light of jewels. what do you mean some people live unfair lives? #well have they thought living better??? #i'm obsessed with Solune and whatever the fuck is wrong with them (it's money. it's having money)

[gayleviticus]

i dont believe this but i think there's theoretical room for an interesting neo-marcionite/gnostic heresy based on the orthodox concept of Jesus as the Word of God being God the Father's self-understanding/self-revelation, where God is flawed and a bit messed up but with good intentions, but has such a positive, glowing impression of himself he genuinely succeeds in begetting a perfectly good and kind Son. in other words, Jesus is God's Mary Sue self-insert OC.

#dont believe this tho bc pitting mean OT God against nice kind Jesus is a bit antisemitic tbh #and also its heresy but i know that wont stop tumblr #religion

[peridots-pixiwolf]

hey guess who is actually and without exaggeration crying over ultrakill

#peridots-nonsense #ultrakill #ok so. i'm emotional right now. this has been stated. what also has been stated is the fact that this is my 2nd playthrough on a new device #first time i finished it was in november and while altars of apostasy does make me pretty sad that's about the limit to ultkill emotions. #it's really funny actually because i was so excited for heresy. i took longer to beat act 2 than i did the first time around cause i wanted #to improve on the levels (p-ranks and challenges and secrets. y'know. still haven't done 5-S yet though). so i had more time to anticipate #specifically. Gabe's rematch. i was THRILLED!!! i don't even know why!!!!! but i never stopped smiling the whole time i was fighting him!!! #it got so bad the first time i got to his second phase that i had to actually pause for the better part of a minute from stimming so hard!! #grinning like an idiot for five minutes straight!!! no fight or game has EVER made me feel that way before. #the hk collector is a fun fight for sure and i sometimes get happy going up against characters i like from any games. however #it fades as i get into the fight. it's never been nearly that grand. i was singing a lot too but sleeping family made it more of a whisper #i ended up spending 24 minutes on it with 58 restarts. and yet i was ECSTATIC the whole time. i can see what it felt like to him now lol #so. instantly on the verge of tears when i beat him. and when i got past the ending cutscene i broke. i love this game so so much... #idk. sure this could've been a text to my friends or something but i do not care you all will hear of this #cause this is the best thing ever actually. brb going to go tear up again though

[abearirl]

I'm not a gortash enjoyer but I have seen several artists now depict him as a real fat bastard and I'm just like, why are you targeting me specifically. I'm so mad

#you are not allowed to arouse me against my will #this is heresy

[theragamuffininitiative]

Tfw you get recommended a particular pastor-teacher by a peer and you have gotten just wise enough at this point to go look the person up before just ingesting their teaching, and the top two things they have recently said are "Christian Nationalism is a good thing and a God-ordained pursuit" and "Israel should by no means pause or cease fire" and you're just like. Aha. Ok then. Glad I checked first. 😅

#getting problematic on main sorry not sorry? #having christian ideals in your nation is great #but you can't legislate against other religions and nationalities in the name of 'religious freedom but only my religion and freedom' #christian nationalism is a heresy and one i only recently came out of so i get it friends. i get it. #also just bc we are told that there will be wars and rumors of wars does not mean we should be warmongers #why is that an unpopular take among evangelicals #yes God is still doing things in Israel and they are still special #but the Gospel has gone out to the whole world and the new covenant is turning swords to ploughshares #ragamusings #this is what i meant when i said my ideals have changed a lot since i was online years ago #tw: politics #i guess #not really politics though?? just being gospel minded?? #like it isnt about the politics that is the whole point #the gospel is bigger than that and so much better #ok i'm done now

[typical-simplelove]

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#for people who say “religious beliefs” are the reason they don't support lgbtq+ people and are catholic/Christian #<- this belief goes against the Christian church and Christian Bible #part of being a Christian is supporting everyone #and something j learned over the past few years of catholic school religion class is that anyone who says that the Bible is their reason #for not supporting a certain group of people IS COMMITTING A HERESY #the Bible is never to be used as a reason not to support someone or show respect or love #so to relate to tonight's hockey news that dude is further enforcing a heresy which goes against Christian doctrines #I'm just sick of christians/catholics hiding behind their faith when the reality is that their faith is supportive of everyone #we're supposed to be supportive and unfortunately a lot of members of the church don't recognize that #so if anyone ever hears someone saying their Christian God doesn't like lgbtq+ people you can tell them that their flat out wrong #God always says that we should love everyone and gay people ARE STILL God's children #this is my religion rant for the evening thanks for reading this far #*they're

[enslaughts]

thinking about laura lee as lottie's first disciple. laura lee, unable to hear god's voice after her failed attempt to save them, her second plane crash, so she clings to lottie's. unable to hear the wilderness like even the rest of them learn to, but she always listens to lottie, like the little children at jesus' feet.

#mobile. #literally the more i think about it the more i KNOW she would have nothing to do with javi's death #their whole card drawing? it's borderline blasphemy to her. heresy. because lottie from her own mouth only offered up her own body #to try and choose themselves? in direct contradiction? it IS heresy and she won't participate in it #she doesn't believe in Anything out there but lottie and it is!!!! not good lol or fair to lottie :( #but it would lead to laura lee staying out of it after a weak attempt to reprimend them #and it has to be weak because. if lottie is the only thing she believes in she can't lose her #she can't #so she doesn't neither. pulls a whats his name washing his hands of the matter #she might've stopped them was she there. she would also ball her eyes out for javi #but she'll at the same time thank a god she doesn't believe in anymore that lottie's still alive #god why am i writing this here when i could be writing another post..... #religion // #anyway she will shout and scold and hate them for going against lottie's wishes and yet she will reap the benifits of their actions #she is a hypocrite to her core and it's why she experiences so much dissonence even years later #dynamic. . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝙻𝙾𝚃𝚃𝙸𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚆𝚂⠀:⠀laura lee

[haligtreedream]

So it's 2 am and I've got about a thousand words of mad thematic analysis about why the Miquella and Mohg story works better as a horror allegory for forced familial conservatorship instead of whatever the fuck it is we got in canon so I might post that tomorrow if I can edit it into something readable and cohesive

#ooc #hhhhhhhhhhh lore hunters have broken my brain #cause now i feel the need to back up every single thing with pedantics and item descriptions #instead of examining character themes and motifs which are my bread and butter #either way it would have been BETTER cause then you could also have an element where mohg is operating from a place of internalized abelism #and then has to deal with that #i am smacking grrm and fromsoft with an unalloyed broom #i am driving them out of my treehouse #the only sin on this blog is heresy against the golden order

[fideidefenswhore]

Henry was more of a problem. It could be argued that he was responsible for the initiation of the whole process of heresy-hunting in England, as it was he who split off the English Church from Rome. Though his motives were primarily bound up with his desire to have his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled so that he could marry Anne Boleyn and have an heir by her, he also had some sympathies with the 'new men' or Protestants, particularly during the years he was in love with Anne, as she herself was a Protestant sympathizer.

The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London

#henry has the dubious honor of being the only european monarch (afaik?) that had a catholic burned at the stake #but...idk if i can be argued that he is 'responsible for the initation' #people had been executed for heresy in england before him #it can be argued certainly that he was responsible for the pitch it reached/ pace it came to #also it is so hard to define who was condemned of treason vs heresy in the aftermath of the creaton of the anglican church. #thomas cromwell as we know was definitely charged with both . beyond him... #and with other specifically catholic examples... beyond the infamous one #(john forrest) who received the standard punishment for heresy so we can sort of assume it was that...or at least connected to taht #i suppose to a degree it was both . denying the king's supremacy and also heresy against the new state religion? #but it was mostly seen as far as i understand it as 'disloyalty' to the crown which is more a feature of treason than heresy #*that #thinking mainly of thomas more and bishop fisher but also the carthusian martyrs etc #anyway love the term 'protestant sympathizer' bcus it's phrased as such that it sounds like a 'cancellable' offense rathrwfsdegbfsekjf

[pigeonsmangocookies]

Hello. I saw that you asked about non-denominational Christians being considered heretical by the Catholic Church. Technically, we believe all non-Catholic and non-Orthodoxy Churches are Protestant so non-denominational churches typically fall under this category since they usually follow Luther in spirit. Hope that makes sense. --HeresyLog

thanks for the explanation :D

#/gen #religion stuff #learning about Catholism is always pretty cool #given i had a pretty sheltered view on other versions of Christianity as a kid #(sorry for asking in the tags again I just tend to find it easier for some reason) but are all things that go against what the pope/doctrin #says heresy? /genq #also I know heresy is bad but to what extent? like. what's the punishment/way to repent (so to speak)? /genq #you don't need to answer these if you dint wanna btw /gen

[awritersbro]

This Holy Week, remember: Crucifixion was a method of execution used by the Roman State, not the local religious authorities. If the occupying forces of the Roman Empire didn't want Jesus Crucified, then he wouldn't have been crucified. Symbolically washing your hands of the affair doesn't actually get the blood off your hands, no matter what you say or think.

This is, of course, assuming that Jesus' death was a bad thing and that he didn't also already die for the people who killed him, both of which I would argue are fundamentally un-Christian beliefs.

#christianity #easter #again: killing someone or wanting someone dead for a percieved sin against god or man is essentially claiming that Jesus died for nothing #or worse: that he died for SOME people and not others #the first claim is simply saying that you're not christian #the second is claiming to be one of god's speciallest little boys (while Those People are not) #which is not only a heresy but also INCREDIBLY egotistical

[itwillbeokayyouwillsee]

Warning: this may be heresy but I’m desperate. For any well-versed believers out there, please help me with this:

Do you think that sinners who go to hell might eventually be forgiven and allowed into heaven, or at least some neutral world in between?

And what about people who have committed the unpardonable sin - blasphemy against the holy spirit?

Matthew 12:32 quotes “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.”

Isaiah 65:17 says “For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.”

The bible says that people who commit the unpardonable sin will not be forgiven in this world or the world to come; does that mean there might be a possibility that there will be another earth or age after the next one?

After Christ’s 1,000 year reign is over, is it possible that we will enter a new phase and God will create yet another heaven and earth? If this is true, is there hope for all sinners, even those who have committed the unpardonable sin? Is it heresy to even think so? Is it pointless to hope?

#faith #christianity #blasphemy against the holy spirit #heresy #questions #philosophy #religion #mine