Furthermore the Docetism connection was kicked around in Talk : Jesus _ myth _ theory / Archive _ 39 # Docetism and since then I found a 1990 reference that states " Some skeptics argue that Jesus was a myth . "'Ancient scholars named this theory " docetism, " apparently because, to them, Jesus never actually came into the world as a flesh-and-blood man but only seemed to be here . "'. " Last time I checked 1990 was considered modern.
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Furthermore the Docetism connection was kicked around in Talk : Jesus _ myth _ theory / Archive _ 39 # Docetism and since then I found a 1990 reference that states " Some skeptics argue that Jesus was a myth . "'Ancient scholars named this theory " docetism, " apparently because, to them, Jesus never actually came into the world as a flesh-and-blood man but only seemed to be here . "'. " Last time I checked 1990 was considered modern.
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:: : " This skeptical way of thinking reached its culmination in the argument that Jesus as a human being never existed at all and is a myth . "'In ancient times, this extreme view was named the heresy of docetism ( seeming ) because it maintained that Jesus never came into the world " in the flesh ", but only seemed to "'; ( I John 4 : 2 ) and it was given some encouragement by Paul's lack of interest in his fleshly existence.
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Qur'anic commentators seem to have concluded the denial of the crucifixion of Jesus by following material interpreted in Tafsir that relied upon extra-biblical Judeo-Christian sources, venturing away from the message conveyed in the Qur'an, with the earliest textual evidence having originated from a non-Muslim source; a misreading of the Christian writings of John of Damascus regarding the literal understandings of Docetism ( exegetical doctrine describing spiritual and physical realities of Jesus as understood by men in logical terms ) as opposed to their figurative explanations.
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In the follow-up volume, " Incarnation and Myth " ( 1979 ), she looked at what kind of " evidence " existed in the sources, and showed the strangeness of the language used in her essay " God Suffered and Died ", and questioned whether traditional concepts of incarnation made sense, and whether they tended to docetism, losing sight of the suffering of Christ : " I find myself able to say : I see God in Jesus, and God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and other such traditional statements without necessarily having to spell it out in terms of a literal incarnation.
