What is The Medicine Box you may ask? It is a historical reference to Panarion, which means literally Medicine-chest. Panarion was written by Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310-403) and was comprised of three volumes cataloging 80 different heresies that had infiltrated the Christian Church at the time. After detailing each sect, he then systematically refutes their erroneous doctrines.
As many probably have noticed, the times we are currently living in are no different than the days of Epiphanius. We have many false teachers in the Church today and it will probably only get worse. One big problem is our incorrect view of tolerance. Some people think that it is permissible to allow a brother or sister to continue holding a mistaken view of Christian doctrine. If you truly loved them, you would point out their error and attempt to set them straight with scripture.
The Medicine Box is my place to tackle some of these errors that I have encountered in the Church. I hope that others will find this useful also, as it is sometimes hard to know where to start when dealing with errors in the Church.
Note: Panarion is also known as Against the heresies, as the Latin translations of the 16th century have the title Adversus Haereses, a more descriptive, but less amusing, title.
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