Docetism, Eutychianism, And Nestorianism

Comparison of Heresies From the beginnings of Christianity, the church has been attacked by those introducing false teachings, or otherwise known as heresies. These heresies are beliefs that deviate from the standard, official belief. Most heresies have a degree of truth to them, or else they would not be believed and catch on. These four common heresies, Docetism, Arianism, Eutychianism, and Nestorianism, contribute to the idea of false teachings or heresies. When looking at the four previously mentioned heresies, we can find many comparisons between them.
To begin, each of the four heresies describe an aspect of belief that denies against a form of God. Docetism is the heresy that denies the true, full humanity of god. Arianism is the heresy
The heresy Eutychianism denies the two natures of Christ. Finally, Nestorianism denies that Christ was one person. These basic definitions of these heresies display the comparisons between one another. But as we all have come to know; the appearances of somethings can be deceptive. All four deny a basic belief that is false in the eyes of Orthodox Christianity. In the Docetism article, written by John Sweet, Docetism is portrayed as the possibility of Jesus’s flesh may be human, but his mind is not (Sweet, 25-27). This thought ties into the heresy of Nestorianism in the fact that Jesus Christ was once one person in two places, the man Jesus and God. His body may have been Jesus, but his mind was from up above. Thus, making Jesus Christ both truly a human person and truly God (Williams, 34-37). Along with the heresy of Nestorianism, ties in Eutychianism in that there was two natures of Christ. If Jesus Christ was not in both natures, our nature of eternal and unique characteristics as human beings becomes abolished. Also, the author of the article about Eutychianism states that, “Eutychianism is the view that the union between God