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#673 – 5 Wacky, Modern Theories about Jesus

The Counsel of Trent

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The Early Gospels Show Jesus's Humanity

When you look at the earliest gospels, they really show Jesus in his humanity. These later gospels have dokotist heresies of other heresies that really these gnostic gospels try to emphasize Jesus's divinity and undercut his humanity. The first Christians did not believe Jesus was merely human. There's this idea that Constantine got people to believe in a divine Jesus to have unity in the empire. No, belief in Jesus'sdivinity long preceded emperor Constantine in the fourth century.

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