Dict: easton - Heresy

easton:

Heresy @ from a Greek word signifying

(1) a choice,

(2) the opinion chosen, and

(3) the sect holding the opinion. In the Acts of the Apostles (5:17; 15:5; 24:5,14; 26:5) it denotes a sect, without reference to its character. Elsewhere, however, in the New Testament it has a different meaning attached to it. Paul ranks "heresies" with crimes and seditions kjv@Galatians:5:20). This word also denotes divisions or schisms in the church ( kjv@1Corinthians:11:19). In kjv@Titus:3:10 a "heretical person" is one who follows his own self-willed "questions," and who is to be avoided. Heresies thus came to signify self-chosen doctrines not emanating from God ( kjv@2Peter:2:1).