Heresy and the Bible:
The leaders of the early church had to address wrong ideas that threatened the integrity of the gospel message. One of the first was Docetism. Docetic comes from the Greek word meaning “to appear.” Those who proposed this heresy maintained that Jesus really did not have or inhabit a physical body. They believed Jesus only “appeared” to have a body. The basis of Docetism is that Jesus was a spiritual being who could not have had a true body. John, however, reminds us that, “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God… (1 John 4:2 ESV)
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