Audibility 4.4: Heresy Distrack Vol. 1

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Join us as Luke and Jae sit down with Savanna Moore, a “hylomorphic dualist” (a pretentious phrase that one can just drop into conversation) who is a senior Worship Leadership major at Anderson University to talk about heresy! Heresy, as defined in the episode, is a denial of one of the central tenants or doctrines of Christianity. This typically has to do with the doctrine of the Trinity, Virgin Birth, the Incarnation, etc.  In the first part of the episode, we talk about which heresies we think are the silliest and the most problematic. Savanna brings up the silliness of Gnosticism, the belief that, at the most basic level, only spiritual things are good, and the physical is wholly bad. This has been a consistent problem throughout church history even into today’s church (Uh oh). The Christian life is not only about getting to heaven when we die. It is about the bodily resurrection of the dead on the Last Day. Some honorable mentions: Nestorianism, Apollinarianism, and Modalism. Before moving on to more serious discussion, we begin to make a distinction between being ignorant of something and choosing heresy. The former isn’t something to be condemned for; the latter is. In the second part of the episode, Savanna makes it clear that Catholics are not heretics. Far from it. This comes from a gross misunderstanding of Catholicism. It is important to note the difference between Absolutes, Convictions, and Opinions. Absolutes are what separate heretics from orthodoxy Christianity; Convictions are what separate one denomination from another.  We then take a dive into why one should know about heresy, practically. For one, heresy is a part of church history and we should know what the church has experienced in the past. Second, these heresies didn’t come out of nowhere. Many of the people that first espoused these heresies were intelligent people that were misled by wrong interpretation of the Bible. We have a well of information from history that we can draw from to discern what is right and wrong belief. It is arrogant, if not dangerous, to not look at the 5,000 years of interpretation and thinking that is at our fingertips. In the third part of the episode, we talk about how seeking after knowledge breeds humility. If we gain pride as we gain knowledge, we are not searching with the correct heart. But this does not mean that we all have to learn in the same way. We all learn very differently, so some of us might learn better from a video than we learn from a 600-page book. We talk about how we have to grapple with difficult and challenging beliefs and not merely just allow these difficult topics to remain in our world without being wrestled with. Theology, good and deep theology, should have incredible impacts on every aspect of our lives. We then discuss how faith and reason should interact with one another. Reason is not faith but should instead serve our faith. For more information on what we're all about here at The Audibility Podcast, go ahead and check out our website https://audibilitypodcast.com, and to get connected with us, follow us on Instagram, @audibilitypodcast