![]() ![]() ![]() To some people today, heretic suggests a rebel - someone with courage, the kind of person who can think for himself and stand up to the institutional church. But that sense of the word has been lost. Literally, heresy means “choice” - that is, a choice to deviate from traditional teaching in favor of one’s own insights. Traditionally, a heretic is someone who has compromised an essential doctrine and lost sight of who God really is, usually by oversimplification.
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