Consistent also in their practise, they refused to fellowship and recognize the errorists everywhere, even when found in Lutheran synods.
The difficulty with the last-mentioned position is that it under-estimates the speculative tendencies of the errorists and ignores the direct influence of oriental theosophy.
These errorists held that any one who had fallen into heinous sin after baptism could never again be admitted to ecclesiastical fellowship; and this little book itself supplies proof that its author now supported the same doctrine.
The Church of Rome is said to have hitherto escaped the contagion of false doctrine, [539:3] but now errorists from all quarters began to violate its purity and to disturb its peace.
These letters contain pointed references to the errorists of the early Church, and had they been known to the pastor of Lyons, he could have brought them to bear with most damaging effect against the heretics he assailed.
In almost all the populous cities of the Empire, as if on a concerted signal, the errorists commenced their discussions.
The distractions created by these errorists seem to have suggested the propriety of placing additional power in the hands of the presiding presbyter.
But in the New Testament our attention is directed chiefly to erroristswho in some way disturbed the Church, and adulterated the doctrine taught by our Lord and His apostles.
Even already the subject was pressed on their attention by various classes of errorists who were labouring with much assiduity to disseminate their principles.
They, no doubt, did their utmost to meet the errorists in argument, and to shew that their theories were miserable perversions of Christianity.
Any form of alliance with such dangerous errorists was, however, considered a cause of scandal; and the inspired teachers of the gospel insisted on their exclusion from ecclesiastical fellowship.
And this is the class of errorists which Article XII of the Formula of Concord makes it a special point to characterize summarily and reject by name.
At the same time he branded as errorists Spangenberg, Opitz, and Irenaeus, who declared their dissent.
Self-evidently the Crypto-Calvinists as well as othererrorists had to face the alternative of either subscribing or being suspended from the ministry.
Henceforth the errorists were accustomed to brand all those as Flacianists who were zealous in defending the pure doctrine of Luther.
Before this the Book of Confutation, composed 1559 by the theologians of Duke John Frederick, had enumerated and rejected the doctrines of such errorists as Servetus, Schwenckfeld, and the Anabaptists.
But the plain truth is that the Formula is a complete victory of Luther over the later Melanchthon as well as the other errorists who had raised their heads within the Lutheran Church.
They went away to New England, or more particularly, to Rhode Island, a place of errorists and enthusiasts.
It is therefore to be feared that errorists and fanatics may find opportunity to gain strength.
The account of the errorists in Crete is perhaps in some respects clearer than that which is given of the related phenomenon in Ephesus.
In Colossians, indeed, it is more definitely set forth, and apparently in opposition to errorists who failed to recognize its full implications.
If it were not for the errorists at Corinth we should never have had the all-important passage about the appearances of the risen Christ.
Even in Colossae, however, the doctrine does not seem to have been denied; the errorists apparently did not deny the supreme place of Jesus in the scale of being, but merely erred in attaching undue importance to other beings.
It is very doubtful, for example, whether Lightfoot was correct in finding Essenic influence in the erroristscombated in Paul's Epistle to the Colossians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "errorists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
