Hymenaeus (biblical figure)Evangelist Miller Christian Heresy

Hymenaeus was an early Christian from Ephesus, an

opponent of the apostle Paul, who associates him with Alexander and Philetus.

1 Timothy 1:20 Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander,

whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

Timothy 2:17New American Standard Bible (NASB)

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

In 1 Timothy 1:20, Hymenaeus is included in the "some" who had put away faith and a good conscience and who had made shipwreck concerning faith.

The apostle adds that he had delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan, that they might learn not to blaspheme. Some have viewed this statement as similar to 1 Corinthians 5:5, where Paul commands the church to expel a member engaging in sexual immorality, in the hopes that his spirit would eventually be saved as a result of this discipline

Do you have a Hymenaeus or a Philetus in your church?

Denial of the resurrection Hymenaeus and Philetus are included among persons

whose profane and vain babblings will increase towards more ungodliness, and whose teaching "will spread as a cancer" (2 Tim 2:17, NLT).

The apostle Paul declares that Hymenaeus and Philetus are examples of those just described, and he adds that those two persons "concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some." Then, for the guidance of Timothy, he goes on to say the seal upon the foundation of God is, "The LORD knows those who are his, and All who belong to the LORD must turn away from evil" (2 Tim 2:19, NLT).

IS this your Church The inference intended is, that though Hymenaeus and Philetus

had professed their faith in Christ, they did not turn away from evil.

There is no doubt in regard to the identity of this Hymenaeus with the person of the same name in 1 Tim. Accordingly, the facts mentioned in the two epistles must be placed in the following order: That though Hymenaeus had,made a public and Christian profession of faith in Christ, yet he had,

not turned away from evil, but by his profane teaching went towards more ungodliness. This led to,his abandoning his faith and a good conscience, thus he brought about,the end result of his faith being shipwrecked.

From Heretics Turn away from Such

The error, therefore, of Hymenaeus and his two companions would amount to this: They taught that "the resurrection is past already," circa 50AD65AD, and that there would be no future resurrection, but that all that resurrection means is that the soul awakes from sin. This teaching of Hymenaeus had been so far successful: it had "overthrown the faith of some" (2 Tim 2:18).

Reject Incipient GnosticismIf this your Church Rebuke it in the name of

our Lord Jesus Christ It is impossible to define exactly the full

nature of this heresy, but from what Paul says regarding it, Hymenaeus and Philetus may have believed in an early form of the Christian heresy of Gnosticism. This awakening from sin had taken place with themselves, so the Gnostics held, and therefore there could be no day in the future when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth from the grave (John 5:28).

This is found nowhere in the bible This spiritualizing of the resurrection sprang from

the idea of the necessarily evil nature of all material substance. This idea immediately led to the conclusion of the essentially evil nature of the human body, and that if man is to rise to his true nature, he must rid himself of the thraldom, not of sin, but of the body. This contempt for the body led to the denial of the resurrection in its literal sense; and all that Christ had taught on the subject was explained only, in an allegorical sense, of the resurrection of the soul from sin

A Good Church is one that Reject Hymenaeus or a Philetus Recongizes the Ressurection of Christ, if

Christ is not risen, then we are still in our sins written by the apostle paul in Corinthians.

Believe in the power of the holy spirit Sexual immorality: if it's in the church

rebuke it or cast out of your church.

If there is one in your church that teaches the doctrine of Hymenaeus or a Philetus

Delivered unto Satan and cast away from the congration immidately before other believers get intertwined with their heresy mainly the woman and the young ones.

The way in which the apostle Paul dealt with these teachers, Hymenaeus and his companions, was not merely in the renewed assertion of the truth which they denied, but also by passing sentence upon these teachers"whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

simple excommunication from the church

a person who was delivered unto Satan was cut off from all Christian privileges, he was "put away" from the body of Christian believers, and handed over to "the Saian," the Evil One in his most distinct personality (1 Cor 5). Cf. the cases of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5), and of Elymas (Acts 13:11)

The intention of the punishment was distinctly remedial. Both in the case of Hymenaeus and Alexander, and in that of the person dealt with in 1 Cor 5, the intention was the attaining of an ultimate good. In 1 Cor it is "for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." Similarly, Hymenaeus and Alexander are delivered unto Satan, not for their final perdition, but that they may be taught, through this terrible discipline, not to blaspheme.

heresy heresy [ hrsi ] NOUN belief or opinion contrary to orthodox

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