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Nicolaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicolaism (also Nicholaism , Nicolationism , or Nicolaitanism ) is a Christian heresy whose adherents are called nicolaitans , nicolaitanes , or nicolaites . "Nico" means "conquer" in Gre...
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See definition below. ... Because of the reference to fornication, "Nicolaitanism" in the middle ages meant married clergy or clerical concubinage. See nicholaism.
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Expounding the Ephesian Church Age ... The influence of nicolaitanism was felt upon the true church, for men like the venerable Polycarp, were calling themselves bishops, with a reference to that title which was not inherent in it according to the Word.
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Within this world system, there is another worldly system called "Christendom." ... Nicolaitanism = Clergy/Laity ... Nicolaitanism is the practice of having the clergy/laity system. The word "nicolaitan" literally means "conqueror of the people".
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More importantly, Nicolaitanism, representative of a much broader philosophy, can be blamed for the organized and systematic removal of God's law as a central pillar of the Christian way of life. These things happened because of an attitude, an approach to the truth, found in the Nicolaitan heresy.
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Although prior studies on this phenomenon had been done, the church's interest in Nicolaitanism coincided with the breakup and scattering of the church in the early 1990s. Papers on the subject, often linked with ideas about the heresy of Balaam, circulated from hand to hand and across the Internet.
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15:29 ) And, when we recognize that Nicolaitanism is simply “lording over the people,” we can see that there is many times as much in the Scriptures to condemn the “pastor” position as there is to condone, support, practice or exalt it into the ungodly position it represents today.
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