ERRORS CHRISTIANS DO NOT BELIEVE TODAY

DISPUTED PARTS MANY DO NOT FOLLOW

Legend for Cells

e1. Incorrect references to Bible verses

d1. Christ appeared as or can be called an angel

W = Wrote explicitly on this teaching

e2. Misquoted or unknown Bible verses

d2. Seventy Septuagint translators -

I = Implied this is true or opposite is false

e3. Over-allegorical Bible interpretation

d3. God is simple or not composite -

N = Implied since accepted Nicene Creed

e4. Four elements make up the world

d4. God is impassable (without passion) -

M = Mixed: some agree, others would not

e5. Atoms do not really exist

d5. Some fallen angels sinned with women -

P = partial ex: Irenaeus: Gnostics wrong to say Savior not killed since impassible

e6. Errors on the hyena, phoenix, or other animals

d6. Against jewelry or false/dyed hair(part.)1Pet3:3

e7. Errors on geography or tribes

d7. Christians must fast on certain days -

- = no reference found (so far)

e8. Collective guilt of the Jews

d8. No drinking or eating blood Acts 15:29

X = Disagree

d9. No worshipping true God through images Dt

blank = not researched yet

d11. Prophecy in the church after Acts

d10. Prophets proclaimed two advents of Christ

Writer totals include W’s & I’s but not P’s

Christian writer, heretic, or Bible manuscript

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Nero and Domitian persecute Christians

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Trajan persecutes Christians

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Didache (=Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)

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Hadrian persecutes Christians

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Hadrian loved Greek culture, and he persecuted both Jewish & Christian people.

Bar Cochba persecutes Christians

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Christians persecuted in Israel because they would not join Bar Cochba’s revolt.

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Justin Martyr, philosopher and apologist

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Shepherd of Hermas

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Gnostic heresies become widespread

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Tatian+his Diatessaron.Encratite Gnostic later

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Dionysius of Corinth (wrote against Marcion)

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p66 Bodmer II Papyrii - 817 verses (92%) of John

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p90 Jn 18:36-19:7 (11 verses)

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Aurelius was a Stoic philosopher. Persecution mainly in Gaul ended at his death

Christians of Vienna and Lugdunum (Lyons)

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Theophilus of Antioch ( to Autolycus)

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Irenaeus of Lyons, disciple of Polycarp

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Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs -died 180 A.D.

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Sabellian heresy (Praxeas, Noetus, Callistus)

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Also called Patripassians, they believed Father, Son, & Spirit were one person.

Persecution of Septimus Severus

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est. 2M Christians. A Christian helped him when ill, but didn’t repeal existing laws

Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas

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Romans kill first known martyrs in Britain

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Alban, Julius, and Aaron were formerly thought killed in 304/5 A.D.

Serapion of Antioch (against Marcion)

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Apollonius of Ephesus (against Montanists)

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Clement of Alexandria

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p75 Lk 3:18-22; etc. Jn 1:1-11:45,etc. 1,166 verses

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p45 Chester Beatty I – 833 verses (4 gospels + Acts)

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Tertullian (joined the Montanist Church)

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Tertullian’s 5 Books Against Marcion

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Maximim persecutes Christians

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First empire-wide persecution, but only of clergy. It stopped when he was killed.

Instructions of Commodianus

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Severe persecution by Decius and Gallus

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1st Christian schism. Can fallen Christians return, or doomed forever –Novatian

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Valerian persecutes Christians

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2nd most severe persecution. Tolerant at first but then Macrianus influenced him

Theognostus of Alexandria (Origenist)

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Aurelian Persecution

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p9, p20, p27/p40, p28, p35, p69, p70, p101 113 verses

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Sinaitic Old Syriac (Syr S) (most of the 4 gospels)

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Adamantius’ Dialog on the True Faith in God

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Marcionite Megethius disputing Adamantius

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c.300

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Marcionite Marcus disputing Adamantius

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Bardasene Marinus disputing Adamantius

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Valentinian Doserius disputing Adamantius

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Alexander of Lycopolis Of the Manichaeans

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Arnobius Against the Heathen (undisputed)

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297-303

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Victorinus of Petau, Austria -commentator

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martyred 304

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p24 Rev 5:5-8; 6:5-8 (8 verses)

early 4th cent.

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King Tiridates III of Armenia

>287-300

At first persecuted Christians, then became one through Gregory the Illuminator

Most severe persecution by Diocletian

284, 303-305

est. 5M Christians, some killed for not sacrificing. Destroyed churches/scriptures

Council of Elvira (21 undisputed canons)

c.1

306/307

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Phileas of Thmuis/Tmai, Egyptian Delta

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Pamphilus disciple of Pierius (Origenist)

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Creed of Lucian of Antioch

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Peter of Alexandria (undisputed)

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Donatus Magnus (Donatists) in North Africa

311-411-

Refused to accept those who had ever surrendered their scriptures to authorities

Methodius (corrected Origen’s followers)