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Originally Posted by Didymus
Docetism - the notion that Jesus appeared in the form of a man, but did not become an actual human being - was an element in many of the gnostic heresies, including Mandeanism, Ophitism, Marcionism, Montanism and Manichaeanism. It was an early and formidable threat, and is still viewed by all major Christian denominations as a grave departure from orthodoxy.
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Jesus was the name given to him unto whom Christ was born
and still is the name given to whomever Christ is born. He was, is, and always will be a Jesuit by nature because the Christ nature is added by means of rebirth to the old human nature that now stands convicted as usurper of the prior benevolent nature of man. We here now have the first Adam (usurper) in direct conflict with the second Adam (redeemer) who is reborn to claim his birthright as man in the image of God.
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It's a concept that stems from dualism - the idea that there are two co-existing realities, one material (dark, evil, corrupt, temporal, the flesh, the domain of Satan) and the other spiritual (illuminated, good, pure, eternal, the soul, the domain of God). Thus, docetic heresies rejected the material world and everything about it - including the church! Don't expect the Pope to embrace docetism in the foreseeable future.
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Dualism begins at the moment of rebirth when we are both saved and sinner but will never be accepted as an -ism because that is when and where Catholicism ends. The material world is never part of Catholicism itself (sic) but it is the playground for Catholics while they are herded hither and thither like sheep that belong to the good shepherd who is herding them.
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Of course, such dualism rejects the idea of a single creator and ruler of the entire universe. To the contrary, it is polytheistic, holding that there are two co-equal and competing gods, one good, one evil, each the creator and ruler of his own domain.
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Yet dualism is real with the Church being the universal mother of conception presiding over the tree of eternal life (eternal life belongs to the mythology) with the many believers below her serving her as co-creator to gather temporal dust that can be purified into eternal gold. Dualism is therefore real not but equal and it is as far apart as earth is from heaven from where Catholics are inspired to be Her co-creator.
On the personal level the Church is Mary to us who is venerated because she is the capacity of the bread of life and the source of all we ever need. Below her is Mary Magdalene who is the maid the first Adam married wherein he feels complete and is determined to succeed as co-creator with a mandate and is open for busi-ness.
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The docetists reasoned that in such a schema, Jesus would not have occupied a human body. The Logos could not have been made flesh, since the Logos was sacred and transcendent and the body the evil creation of Satan. So docetists believed that Jesus merely appeared to be human. That belief presented problems for Christian theology, of course. Such a purely spiritual nature would have mitigated Jesus' suffering on the cross and the salific power of his sacrifice. And he would not have established the bond with mankind that took place through the incarnation (meaning "to become flesh").
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No, the body is the temple that must be occupied to be destroyed first and raised later or salvation itself would be an illusion. Catholics hold here that man is basically good to make the blessings of heaven on earth a reality that is within our reach while alive on this earth.
The word became flesh is the transformation of the body into the bread of life or Mary would be redundant and flesh would just be flesh.
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In any case, the church came down with both feet against docetism at the Council of Nicea in 325, when it declared Jesus to have been both fully human and fully divine.
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"Fully" is the prime mover here that coincides with the end of the world.
02-16-2006, 09:37 AM
Docetism is a heresy
