alt.education

In article >, Robert said...

> Actually heretic's are anyone that doesn't believe in the one true
> God, and follow the dictates of His one True Church.

People who are not, and have never been, part of the
faith by definition cannot be heretics.

Thomas Aquinas: "There are, therefore, two ways of
deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to
believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of
infidelity, common to Pagans and Jews; the other by
restricting belief to certain points of Christ's
doctrine selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is
the way of heretics. The subject-matter of both faith
and heresy is, therefore, the deposit of the faith,
that is, the sum total of truths revealed in Scripture
and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church.
The believer accepts the whole deposit as proposed by
the Church; the heretic accepts only such parts of it
as commend themselves to his own approval."

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Brian E. Clark