The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum What Heresy is the Most Dangerous?

I chose, "New Perspective on Paul" mainly because it is a direct attack on the doctrine of Sola Fide (justification by faith alone). However, ALL of those you have listed do the same, albeit to varying degrees; some directly and some indirectly and by consequence of their respective heresy. Remember, that Sola Fide isn't to be narrowly understood in that justification is bifurcated from sanctification but rather Sola Fide includes both the imputation of Christ's righteousness to those who have been given to believe and with that new nature from which faith and repentance flows, the Holy Spirit also works sanctification; i.e., the transformation of one's life to be consistent with that profession of faith. As the Puritans rightly said, "Justification qualifies for heaven. Sanctification prepares one for heaven."

Justification: "If the purity of this doctrine is in any degree impaired the Church has received a deadly wound and brought to the very brink of destruction. Whenever the knowledge of it is taken away, the glory of Christ is extinguished, religion abolished, the Church destroyed and the hope of salvation utterly overthrown. - John Calvin "The Necessity of Reforming the Church" p. 42

In His grace,