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Groups the major denominations have declared heretical, and why · Articles: 26

Denominations and traditions differ on this topic. The articles set out side by side who holds which view and on what grounds.

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  • ArianismArianism is the teaching advanced by Arius of Alexandria in the fourth century. It regards Christ the Son not as God of the same essence as the Fathe…

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  • BereaBerea is a theological system taught by Kim Ki-dong (c. 1938–2022) through Seoul Sungrak Church and the Berea Academy. Its doctrine of demons is cent…

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  • CheonbugyoCheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Kore…
  • Christian Gospel MissionThe Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in Sout…
  • Church of Almighty GodThe Church of Almighty God (全能神教會) is a religious group that originated in China in the early 1990s and is also known as "Eastern Lightning" or …

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  • DocetismDocetism was an early Christian teaching holding that Jesus Christ did not possess a real human body but only appeared to have one. The historic Chri…

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  • GnosticismGnosticism is a collective name for a number of religious movements that spread in close association with early Christianity from the late first cent…
  • Guwonpa (Salvation Sect)Guwonpa ("Salvation Sect") is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu in the early…

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  • HeresyIn Christianity, heresy (Korean: idan) refers to teaching that departs from the fundamental doctrines grounded in Scripture and confessed by the hist…
  • Heresy CounselingHeresy counseling is a Protestant counseling and educational ministry that helps people who have joined groups designated by denominations as heretic…
  • Heresy DesignationA heresy designation is a formal determination by a denominational general assembly or an interdenominational church body, made after investigating t…

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  • InterCPInterCP is a South Korean overseas mission organization led by its director, Paul Choi (Choi Ba-ul). Since 2011, several denominations have passed re…

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  • Jehovah's WitnessesJehovah's Witnesses are a religious organization that grew out of a Bible study group begun in the United States in the late nineteenth century by Ch…

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  • Local ChurchThe Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there…

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  • Manmin Central ChurchManmin Central Church is a church founded by Lee Jae-rock in 1982 in Guro District, Seoul. It has been declared heretical by the Jesus Korea Sungkyul…
  • MarcionismMarcionism is the teaching of the second-century teacher Marcion and his followers. It held that the Creator God of the Old Testament and the God who…
  • ModalismModalism (Sabellianism) is the view that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not three distinct persons but three modes, or manifestations, …
  • MontanismMontanism was a prophetic movement begun by Montanus in Phrygia, Asia Minor, in the late second century. It claimed that the Paraclete, the Holy Spir…

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  • NestorianismNestorianism is a Christology regarded as originating with Nestorius, the fifth-century Patriarch of Constantinople. It was criticized for separating…

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  • PelagianismPelagianism refers to the teachings of the early fifth-century monk Pelagius and his followers. It denied original sin (the doctrine that Adam's sin …

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  • Saibi (Pseudo-Christian Groups)Saibi (似而非) is a Sino-Korean term meaning "something that appears similar but is not genuinely so." In Korean Protestantism it is used alongside "…
  • ShincheonjiShincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), is a new religious movement founded by Lee Man-hee in 1984 …

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  • Unification ChurchThe Unification Church is a religious organization founded by Sun Myung Moon in 1954 under the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of Wo…

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  • World Evangelization Mission AssociationThe World Evangelization Mission Association is an evangelistic movement led by Ryu Kwang-su and is also known as the "Darakbang (Upper Room) Evangel…
  • World Mission Society Church of GodThe World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members …