Who gets to say what’s a heresy?

Hus and Luther were officially condemned a heretics, and by extension all Protestants.

Do you affirm believer’s baptism over infant baptism? Luther and Zwingli persecuted the Anabaptists for holding this belief.

Have you ever been accused of being a Pelagian, condemned by the Council of Orange? Do you believe God decrees evil as Calvin, White, Piper and many other Calvinists do – which is anathema according to the same Council of Orange?

Do you hold to Limited Atonement? You mean the teachings of Gottschalk of Orbais that were condemned as heretical at two councils? Limited Atonement which Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, 1/3 of Dort, 1/4 of Westminster and many other Reformed rejected?

What exact percentage admixture of God/man do you say Jesus Christ was composed of? Explain in careful and exact correct orthodoxy, or you’ll be exiled to the farthest corners of the world by the Imperial Church.

Go back even further, to when Jesus was condemned by the Jewish leaders for alleged blasphemy by claiming to be God – followed by the persecution of the first Christians for being part of the ‘sect of the Nazarenes’.

Many of us have been accused of heresy for all sorts of reasons. When do you think YOUR turn will come? Do you really think it will be never? Flip open a history book sometime.

So forgive me if I rather take my chances standing before God to explain why I DIDN’T persecute someone for ‘heresy’.