Believe in Six Heresies Before Breakfast

How much heresy can one man hold? Apparently, quite a bit!

I saw this on Reddit over the weekend — the TheoCompass quiz, which is 60-odd questions about Christian belief, and from those it analyzes one’s beliefs and what sort of church they should attend.

I, being of a puckish nature, took the quiz.

I apparently hold 14 different heretical beliefs! I have probably been anathematized by every ecumenical council and synod since the second century CE!

I subscribe to 14 different heresies, including Adoptionism, denial of the Holy Spirit, doubting miracles, rejecting the Bible, belief in the Moral Influence theory of Atonement, and Universalism.

I am such a silly person.

Seriously, though, somehow I rate as a Liberal Christian with a score of 82%, in spite of — or maybe because of — all that heresy.

My Theological Compass. I am completely liberal and moderately low church.

I’m a little disappointed that Pelagianism didn’t make the list, and also that the bar only goes halfway. I could be committing more heresy!

I joke, but right-wing Christian nationalists would probably be quite excited to send me to the pyre, if not for my heresies than for my liberalism. The Puritans put Quakers to death in Boston, after all.

Published by Allyn Gibson

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over fifteen years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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