Works based Salvation??

[Yeshua1]

The Circumcellions and Donatists come to mind quickly. There is also Antinomianism, Marcionism, Adoptionism, and Appollinarism. But insofar as early heresies I was thinking more of Pelagianism (although Monarchianism is another excellent example). It would be foolish to say that Pelagianism was an intentional heresy (in terms of heresy to Christianity….not necessarily the prevailing position).

In another post you mentioned R.B.C. Howell. When he took the position in Nashville he faced heretics that were not intentionally departing from biblical doctrine. The Campbellites were one of these groups. Another was the hyper-Calvinists whose (in reaction to the growing Methodist doctrine) magnification of divine sovereignty ultimately led them into disobedience.

Heresy seems to be bred in a fertile soil of people thinking that they need something more then the Bible and what is seen as being the "traditional views", so start to give heed to deluding spiirts, just check out the ones that spoke to Jospeh Snith, WoF teachers, pastor Rusell of JW, and the infamous "azusa revival"