Galadriel
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HERESY
What is a heresy? Today it's often thrown around at people who disagree with your theological opinion or belief, or used as a synonym for "wrong belief."
In Catholicism, heresy has a specific meaning:
There are two types of heresy--material heresy and formal heresy.
An example of material heresy would be a person who commits heresy but does so because he has a lack of knowledge of Catholicism, or may have even been miseducated in Catholicism.
A formal heretic denies the faith with full knowledge and deliberation.
Is heresy a sin? - Yes.
Why? - It weakens and even destroys the virtue of Faith.
What is a heresy? Today it's often thrown around at people who disagree with your theological opinion or belief, or used as a synonym for "wrong belief."
In Catholicism, heresy has a specific meaning:
A heretic is a baptized Catholic who denies or obstinately doubts a truth of the Faith (for example, denying that Christ is God, or obstinately doubting the moral truth of abortion being a mortal sin, etc.)"Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2089)
There are two types of heresy--material heresy and formal heresy.
An example of material heresy would be a person who commits heresy but does so because he has a lack of knowledge of Catholicism, or may have even been miseducated in Catholicism.
A formal heretic denies the faith with full knowledge and deliberation.
Is heresy a sin? - Yes.
Why? - It weakens and even destroys the virtue of Faith.