# Which early Christian heresy are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 29, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314 "2014-07-29T11:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/1 "2014-07-29T11:06:35Z")
This isn’t a debate, but it’s sort of related to witnessing? Anyhow, I had to share this, it’s silliest quiz ever (with some education at the end to top it off): [Which Early Christian Heresy Are You?](http://uquiz.com/jyoHiC?p=8188) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/2 "2014-07-29T11:13:57Z")
Well, I’ll be. I’m a Pelagianist. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/3 "2014-07-29T11:51:23Z")
Antinomianism. It’s a fair cop. ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/4 "2014-07-29T12:26:24Z")
Docetism. That quiz was considerably more amusing than it really ought to be. ---
**Author:** ![BigDadWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/5 "2014-07-29T12:33:25Z")
I got Monophysitism which should come as no surprise to those who really know me. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/6 "2014-07-29T12:43:57Z")
Monophysitism here too, but I made a big mistake by answering question #8 as “Fascicle 7” when it’s obvious that “Fascicle 6” is far superior. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/7 "2014-07-29T12:58:31Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Well, I’ll be. I’m a Pelagianist. I was pegged as Pelagian, but in reality I consider myself only Semi-pelagian. I think I messed up the question about the obscure Scandinavian composers. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/8 "2014-07-29T13:29:40Z")
I made it to the question about Proust and just gave up. Could… not… continue… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/9 "2014-07-29T13:45:48Z")
Apostate. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/10 "2014-07-29T13:47:22Z")
Sabellianism. An excellent quiz. I have never heard of Sabellius, but I always liked _Finlandia_. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/11 "2014-07-29T14:06:20Z")
Monophysite, but I already knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/12 "2014-07-29T14:17:36Z")
I am Arianism! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/13 "2014-07-29T14:19:46Z")
Apparently, I’m the first to be Arianism. ETA: …OK, second’s still pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/14 "2014-07-29T14:35:00Z")
Pelagianist…which is funny, because I’ve actually been called that before. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/15 "2014-07-29T14:42:28Z")
Pelagianism for me! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/16 "2014-07-29T14:46:43Z")
I know it’s primarily done for humor, but I’d like to know how the questions correlate to the test result. I wish they had a page explaining the point-value system and how it was determined, or whatever the methodology is. A couple of the questions (like the obscure Scandinavian composer or your favorite Fascicle) clearly add an element of randomness to the results for 99.9% of the responders. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/17 "2014-07-29T15:46:40Z")
You are Pelagianism! Well, duh. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/18 "2014-07-29T16:26:00Z")
Oooh. Montanism. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/19 "2014-07-29T16:41:29Z")
To really have fun playing along, I actually tried to properly reason out my responses, nonsensical though they may be. My result: Docetism You are Docetism! Docetism (literally, “to seem-ism”) is the belief that Christ only seemed to be human and that his physical body was an illusion. Because he did not possess a physical body, Jesus’s death on the cross could not really have taken place, and his apparent suffering was also illusory. Another variety of docetism held that Jesus was a normal human being but that Christ was an immaterial spirit who entered his body at his baptism, gave him the power to perform supernatural acts, and then abandoned him prior to the crucifixion, perhaps by switching bodies with Simon of Cyrene. Docetist Christology was criticized by a number of early Christian theologians, and was definitively condemned by the Council of Nicaea. I hadn’t read about that in a LONG time… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314/20 "2014-07-29T16:44:01Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > Oooh. Montanism. Turn me loose, set me free Somewhere in the middle of Montana And give me all I got coming to me [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-early-christian-heresy-are-you/694314.md?page=2)