Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.
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This, together with the claim that on the cross Jesus " remained silent, as though he felt no pain ", has led many early Christians to accuse the text of docetism.
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It asserts that Jesus " lived as flesh " and was " both human and divine . " These statements imply that the author rejected docetism, an idea frequently found among the Gnostics.
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This is quite at odds with John's general emphasis elsewhere against docetism, and so those who regard John as being deliberately polemic tend instead to see this verse as an attack on Mary.
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In fact, the idea that Jesus did not have a physical human body was the heresy of Docetism, which was condemned long ago . . . talk ) 04 : 17, 31 March 2012 ( UTC)
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The connection between Docetism and the Christ myth theory has been in that article for two YEARS perhaps as long as FIVE years and only NOW you have a problem with it and claim that " I " spoiled it by making this connection ? !?
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Ephrem asserts that Christ's unity of humanity and divinity represents peace, perfection and salvation; in contrast, docetism and other heresies sought to divide or reduce Christ's nature and, in doing so, rend and devalue Christ's followers with their false teachings.
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Thus, though the Mahsnghikas are known to have espoused a form of docetism, the version of the Dona-sutta used by them does not imply that the Buddha is a transcendental being in human form, while the version preserved in Pali may be open to that interpretation.
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He lamented that the faithful were " tossed to and fro and carried around with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness and deceitful wiles . " He devised hymns laden with doctrinal details to inoculate right-thinking Christians against heresies such as docetism.
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A discussion of the heretical Docetae begins Hippolytus'Book VIII . Who exactly the Docetae were is unclear, though Hippolytus seems to make a distinction between this group and others who considered Jesus to exist merely in appearance, the doctrine with to which the term " Docetism " is now affixed.
