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What are some teachings that are considered apostacy?
What teaching is considered apostacy
Question Details: Explain the meaning of apostacy to me .Im mean a detailed description , Not a smart remark . I need scripture .That means something you get from the bible .Use your King James if you need to , I have one also .Let us see just how you explain .
I gave all stars , My question was pointed dirrectly toward christian beliefs.If you wish to add something -- send me a notice. I like the thought that apostasy is teachings something that do not agree with Christs teaching
11 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
Many who apostate say silent but many try to persuade others in their own way of thinking.
"is it really so?"
Genesis 3:1
x x x
- Malachi ConstantLv 51 decade ago
When individuals or groups of people turn away from the principles of the gospel, they are in a state of apostasy. One example is the Great Apostasy, which occurred after the Savior established His Church. After the deaths of the Savior and His Apostles, men corrupted the principles of the gospel and made unauthorized changes in Church organization and priesthood ordinances.
Amos 8:11-12- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
also Acts 20: 28-30
- bennett.james777Lv 51 decade ago
Apostasy is the act of abandoning a party or cause, it is a state of abandoning a cause mostly to adhere to the antithisis of the former cause. Apostasy could be considered abandoning the faith that was once delivered to the saints for an opposing cause/teaching, not just minor doctrinal disaagreements. It also does not mean the apostasy has to be non-religious, it can and ofter is the abandonment of the faith for an institution that discounts the most fundamental issues of the faith. Turning to atheism would be consider a total apostasy.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Adventists are authentic Christian people like in the different church however the Catholic church says they seem to be a Cult..... in all hazard because of the fact they do in comparison to Adventists. Catholicism began whilst the Roman empire have been given bored with killing Christians.... and so on whilst Christianity grew in inhabitants killing them replaced into not an selection to any extent further, so what they did replaced into to create a Church standard in Rome ( Catholic Roman ) with a commonly used chief call the Pope that has been a Roman itself till at last this Century. you will in no way locate interior the Bible that the Pope or Peter had a particular ministry to Christian different than given to all Apostles and Christians specially... you need to understand that at that ingredient whilst the Catholic church replaced into born, the Emperor and over a million/2 Rome worshiped the solar so they did exchange the seventh day Sabbath or Saturday who's 4th interior the ten commandments for the Sunday and you will see the solar in paints and collectible figurines on maximum of historic Rome Catholic Cathedrals... Do your very own analyze and don't have faith a observe the Roman Church says approximately Adventist and something.... The observe of God ( the Bible) must be adequate to inform you each and all of the certainty, study it!
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Apostasy is the "...falling away from the truth." In the Bible, it means falling away from the teachings of Jesus, the apostles, and the early church (2nd Thessolanians 2:3). Go to the web site -vwww.carm.org/index - for a listing of what were the early church's beliefs and the warnings of what falling away meant.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Do you mean Apostasy? Cause I don't know what Apostacy means...
Apostasy is the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one who apostatises. The word derives from Greek αποστασία, meaning a defection or revolt, from απο, apo, "away, apart", στασις, stasis, "standing".
Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates and they generally consider this term to be a pejorative. Many religious movements consider it a vice (sin), a corruption of the virtue of piety in the sense that when piety fails, apostasy is the result.
Many religious groups and even some states punish apostates. Apostates may be shunned by the members of their former religious group[1] or worse. This may be the official policy of the religious group or may happen spontaneously, due in some sense to psycho-social factors as well. Historically as well as currently, the offense can be punishable by death. The Catholic Church may in certain circumstances respond to apostasy by excommunicating the apostate, while the traditional holy writings of both Judaism (Deuteronomy 13:6-10) and Islam (al-Bukhari, Diyat, bab 6) demand the death penalty for apostates.
The reliability of the testimonies of apostates is an important and controversial issue in the study of apostasy in cults and new religious movements.
Unlike apostasy, heresy is the rejection or corruption of certain doctrines, not the complete abandonment of one's religion. Heretics claim to still be following a religion (or to be the "true followers"), whereas apostates reject it entirely.
The term is also used to refer to renunciation of belief in a cause other than religion to which one has voluntarily professed any form of allegiance, particularly in politics. Conversely, some atheists and agnostics use the term "deconversion" to describe loss of faith in a religion. Self-described "Freethinkers" and those who may view traditional religion negatively may see it as gaining rationality and respect for the scientific method.
Other terms to describe leaving a faith and the associated processes are treated in religious disaffiliation.
- 1 decade ago
In the Russian translation of the Bible the word for apostasy is 'otstupnechestva' (not sure how to spell without Cyrillic letters) which literally means 'a step (stup) away (ot) from glory (chest)'. Language in the Bible makes reference to pieces of the above word, such as Thess. ch. 2 where it talks about a 'falling away' (i.e., steps away from glory).
Source(s): Russian Orthodox Bible - Anonymous1 decade ago
apostacy... as I see it... any practice anyone has that is turned from God... any act that is intended to turn any other from The Truth of God's Word and Will for mankind.... ie: "catholic" dogma and "tradition; islam; mormonism.
as there is only one True Church and it is directly commissiond by God... any act / teaching / "religion" followed by any one that is not of The One True Church(all of those of The True Christian Faith) places that individual in a position of apostacy.
every "denomination" / sect / cult has it's own definition of what "apostacy" is in relation to their particular doctrine or dogma... But God's Word and Will is all that is The Truth.
- James OLv 71 decade ago
For a Christian, apostasy or the forsaking of Christianity is:
denial of the trinity
denial of the existence of God
denial of the absolute unity of God in One Being
denial of the eternal and perfect diety of the divine nature of Jesus Christ
denial of God's bodily incarnation in Christ
denial of the posibility of salvation
denial of the goodness of God and His other Eternal and Infinte attributes
There is moral apostasy as distinct from theological apostasy such as teaching that murder is fine(as in abortion)or that adultery or fornication or homoerotic activity is fine or that polygamy is fine.
1 -3 Epistles of John
Gospel of John1
1 Cor 5
- 1 decade ago
Calling the clergy "Father", Matt 23:9
Forbidding people to marry or eat certain foods, 1 Tim 4:1-4
Putting man made traditions before God's Word. See Mark chapter 7.
To deny any point in the Nicene Creed which says:
We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And we believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.