Which Early Christian Heresy Are You?

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Oh my goodness, that was hilarious.

You are Sabellianism!

Sabellianism, named after the early third-century priest Sabellius, taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three distinct persons within the Godhead, but are merely modes through which the single indivisible God is manifested to humanity. Sabellius's teaching opposed the emerging Trinitarian consensus of the early church, and so his writings were attacked by leading theologians of the time, including Tertullian and Hippolytus of Rome. Sabellius himself was excommunicated by Pope Callistus I in 220, and the Athanasian Christological formula adopted by the council of Nicaea in 325 definively classified Sabellianism as a heresy.

Sabellianism can also be referred to as "modalism" (since it teaches that the persons of the Trinity are modes of being rather than separate persons) or "Patripassianism" (since it implies that the Father, and not only the Son, experienced suffering on the cross).