Maimonides calls the Rabbis Heretics – by Implication

In light of the previous articles:

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/orthodoxy-is-reform.html

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/more-orthodox-reform-after-kohanim-were.html

Where the Mishnah attests to the Pharisees/Rabbis  annulling many of the Torah commandments as part of their political agenda against the Priesthood,  it is important to remind the reader of what Maimonides said.  In an early post, http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/maimonides-and-many-rabbinici-heresies.html  we see how Maimonides classes various heretics. Whilst he is aiming at various other sects and follow-on religions, such as Christianity, he makes the following statement:

Hilchot Teshuva 3, 8:

There are three individuals who are considered as one "who denies the Torah":
a) one who says Torah, even one verse or one word, is not from God. If he says: "Moses made these statements independently," he is denying the Torah.
b) one who denies the Torah's interpretation, the oral law, or disputes [the authority of] its spokesmen as did Tzadok and Beitus.
c) one who says that though the Torah came from God, the Creator has replaced one mitzvah with another one and nullified the original Torah, like the Arabs [and the Christians].

 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/911896/jewish/Teshuvah-Chapter-Three.htm

What a surprise, in his 3^rd line, he says those who cancel certain Laws of the Torah are heretics. But, Maimonides, isn’t this precisely what the rabbis of the oral law did, as shown in the Mishnah of Sotah?

Maimonides, you have to choose between one heresy and another.  The problem is that choosing Orthodoxy is heresy in itself, and in fact it is a self-defined heresy.