Christ In The Flesh and Not
In
Christian Gnosticism the docetic idea is that Christ’s body in flesh was a mere
illusion. Christ was a protean deity who could appear in various guises
simultaneously. For example, at the very moment his illusory body in flesh was
undergoing crucifixion, He appeared in another guise to a disciple far from
Golgotha and told him that the crucifixion was a chimera.
Joseph
Campbell, Occidental Mythology, p. 365-73.
The Trouble A God Has When Taking On Flesh
Church
Councils have debated over things like this forever and a day. If all men are
sinners and Christ was not a sinner, then Christ could not have been truly a
man in the flesh. If Christ is truly a man in flesh then he is a sexual
creature as well, tempted by lust.
[excerpted from the book by U.R. Bowie, Here We Be. Where Be We?]
