4.3 The Heresies – Docetics & Marcionites: Denying Christ's Humanity

4.3 The Heresies – Docetics & Marcionites: De...

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4.4 The Heresies – Adoptionism: Christ as Anointed Prophet

In the third century, the heresy of the Ebionites evolved into a more general form of adoptionism, still denying the divinity of Christ, and now emphasizing his status as an anointed, but adopted, son of God, much like the kings and prophets of the Old Testament. Adoptionism i ...

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4.5 The Heresies – Gnosticism: Christ as Cosmic Mind

The heresy of docetism evolved into a complicated web of schools of mythology, which we lump together under the name of gnosticism. These all still denied the real humanity of Christ, though in two distinct ways. Docetic gnosticism continued the trend of seeing Christ as a pha ...

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