One of the earliest Christian heresies was that of docetism. This heretical claim argued that Jesus only appeared to have a human body (deriving from the Greek “to seem”). It expressed itself either through the absolute rejection of a human body associated with Jesus or that Jesus held a human body while Christ di…
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