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Originally Posted by ChicagoPastor
I was about to start a new thread and ask the question why is the "divine flesh" doctrine such a big deal, but I figured someone would've said it was already talked about in another thread.....so........
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Originally Posted by ChicagoPastor
what is the big deal?
I've heard that early Apostolic fathers taught or believed it?
Why is it such a divisive issue?
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It's basically a redress of the old Gnostic teaching that God was "too pure" to be natural flesh or anything else from this natural world.
As far as "early Apostolic fathers," no they condemned it to the man. Of course to be an "Apostolic father" or "Father of the Church" you had to teach things acceptable to the Old Catholic faith. Gnosticism was very popular early on, but it was eventually over run, only to pop up again from time to time like among the Albigensians and others. It was never the "official" or even majority view.
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