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 Gnosticism

If 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
religious (especially Christian) doctrine:

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