How high is Monism in the list of worst heresies?
How high is Monism in the list of worst heresies?
Robert Sullivan
Ethan Barnes
Isn't it basically gnostic?
Asher Ramirez
They believe in it (Sethians) yea
Xavier Fisher
gnostics were strong dualists, so no.
Ayden Morris
Absolutely nothing. From God being infinite and immanent and upholding all, and being described as ''all in all," I (like many others, especially emphasized in Eastern traditions) am a Christian panentheist, currently working on evil/goodness in theology. It is not a heresy, I'd say some form of monism (panentheism tbh) at least is the default Christian position.
The Gnostics had monism and panentheism (paradoxically with radical dualism, but not really), but you must remember they did consider themselves to be "Christians" and had Greek philosophy. It's a logical position they hold to, even among their many other heresies.
Mason Jenkins
God created the world out of nothing, not out of Himself. God is spirit, and created other spirits out of nothing, not out of Himself. The heresies of Monism and Pantheism and similar heresies teach that God created the world out of Himself or part of Himself, or that the world is God. God created both matter and spirits as good. The heresy of Gnosticism is teaching that matter was created as evil, not in teaching that matter was created.
We have three fundamental categories:
1) uncreated God who is spirit (the Father, the Holy Spirit, and preincarnate Jesus)
2) created spirit that is not God and is not matter (angels and human souls)
3) created matter that is not God and is not spirit (the physical universe including our bodies)
These three fundamental categories can exist in combination:
1) created spirit and created matter or spirit (living human beings, infested objects, the possessed)
2) uncreated spirit and created spirit (indwelling of the Holy Spirit)
3) uncreated spirit and created matter (incarnate Jesus)
Christianity is dualistic in that you can group uncreated spirit and created spirit together as spirit and distinguish them from matter, arriving at a dualistic system of spirit and matter.
Elijah Evans
Whether he created them out of himself or out of nothing makes no difference to monism; all things revolve around God and are related to God and he permeates all with no bias. The infinite is not bound by anything.
David Perez
All in all. Monism =/= pantheism always (which is bad).
Isaac Thompson
Literal idolatry.
Colton Garcia
Where is the idolatry? What is being placed above God? This is just a necessary truth for Him being infinite, undefined, and unbound. I dare say we barely know Him, except that He revealed some things to us, and these small bits we can't even properly comprehend, let alone being literally infinite and eternal, and all this contains.