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The Marcionites | WYA The Daily Dose of Discipleship

    • Christianity

That in the early 2nd century A.D., there was a Christian sect known as the Marcionites? They were Docetic ( they disbelieved in Christ's humanity). According to their branch of religious philosophy, material/physical matter was evil.. while spirit alone, was good/holy/sacrosanct. If Jesus was the Christ, He could NEVER therefore have possessed a physical body. He had only appeared to.Obviously, then, the birth, crucifixion, and death of Christ...were fictitious, or badly misconstrued by the ...

That in the early 2nd century A.D., there was a Christian sect known as the Marcionites? They were Docetic ( they disbelieved in Christ's humanity). According to their branch of religious philosophy, material/physical matter was evil.. while spirit alone, was good/holy/sacrosanct. If Jesus was the Christ, He could NEVER therefore have possessed a physical body. He had only appeared to.Obviously, then, the birth, crucifixion, and death of Christ...were fictitious, or badly misconstrued by the ...

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