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What Is #Docetism? Did Early #Christians Think #Jesus Only Seemed Human?

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Neither, Jesus is comprised entirely of light. #Docetism

📚#RichardCarrier has just announced a new book: The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus (2025).

As a scholarly sequel to On the #Historicity of #Jesus (2014), it argues the assumption of a historical Jesus is obsolete. Carrier applies #Bayes to case […]

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Jesus came to tell us the world was bullshit and lies, even ‘died’ on the cross but couldn’t feel it, to be like ‘see guys? It’s not real.’

But he had the advantage of being a hologram. #gnosticism #docetism