Christ and Flesh

 

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?]