Docetism is broadly defined as any teaching that claims that Jesus ' body was either absent or illusory.

Docetism held that Jesus ' humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation ( Deity becoming human ).

Docetism, the heresy that denied the death and subsequent resurrection of Jesus by emphasizing that Jesus was only God and not man, was condemned by Proto-orthodox Christianity in the late 1st to early 2nd century.

He tells us, that the world had turned to many false opinions: and he specially enumerates, the alleged Docetism of the Albigenses which denied that Christ had truly suffered in the flesh, and the unsound tenet unauthoritatively advanced by other sectaries that three nails only were used in the crucifixion and that the left side ( not the right side ) of our Lord was pierced by the spear.

This writing claims to describe the teachings of Simon Magus, including the ideas that God was not almighty, that the resurrection was false, that Christ was not truly bodily incarnated God ( i. e. Docetism ), that angels made the world ( see Demiurge ), and that the prophets were inaccurate.

According to some scholars like Parrinder, Oduyoye, Vroom and Sheth, the common translation " incarnation " due to its christological implications is somewhat misleading as the concept of avatar corresponds more closely to the view of Docetism in Christian theology, as different from the idea of God ' in the flesh ' in mainstream Christology.

It is a wicked invention, equally to be condemned with the Docetism opposed to it.

Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism — where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.

Docetism largely died out during the first millennium AD.

Examples of heterodox opinions that were circulating in the early 2nd century include Docetism, Marcionism, and Gnosticism.

Some gnostic groups treated this as admittance of Docetism, with the Christ being the divine wisdom which revealed gnosis, which would help humanity escape the evil creation ( the world ) of the demiurge, and having no physical existence.

Such questions led to earlier heresies like Arianism, Sabellianism, Docetism, etc.

The prints were also examined by another photographic company, Ilford, who reported unequivocally that there was " some evidence of faking ".

The Hershey – Chase experiment, its predecessors, such as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, and successors served to unequivocally establish that hereditary information was carried by DNA.

While the group asserts that it " unequivocally condemns terrorism " and states that it has a " strict no-tolerance policy against terrorism and other felonious acts ," it was described as " a right-wing terrorist group " by the FBI in 2001 .< ref name = spl >

The answer was unequivocally no: The Jews in Germany were without exception pickpockets, murderers and thieves.

The first system in Hinduism that unequivocally explicated absolute monism was the non-dualist philosophy of Advaita Vedanta as expounded by Shankara.

These experiments unequivocally exposed discrepancies which the theory was unable to explain.

Although the early centuries ( first half of the third millennium and earlier ) are still poorly understood, the archaeological discoveries have shown unequivocally that Ur was a major urban center on the Mesopotamian plain.

On May 30, 1945, The Australian Labor Party Prime Minister John Curtin and his Employment Minister John Dedman proposed a white paper in the Australian House of Representatives titled Full Employment In Australia, the first time any government apart from totalitarian regimes had unequivocally committed itself to providing work for any person who was willing and able to work.

The CEO and CFO are now required to unequivocally take ownership for their financial statements under Section 302, which was not the case prior to SOX.

It should be noted, however, that contrary to what Prokopiou suggests about the results of the American excavations near the Clepsydra, Sara Imerwahr in her definitive publication of the prehistoric material unequivocally states that no Dimini-type pottery was unearthed.

Developers of the famous System R underway in the US at the same time were also consulted on certain matters concerning the engine, but the BS12 team rejected SQL unequivocally, being convinced that this apparently unsound and difficult-to-use language ( which at that time was also relationally incomplete ) would never catch on.

Further constitutional reform was unequivocally on the agenda.

The pastor and liberal politician Maas — unlike Niemöller — belonged to those who unequivocally opposed every form of antisemitism and was later accorded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

Until 1866 the policy of the United States was consistently for inter oceanic canals open equally to all nations, and unequivocally neutralized ; indeed, until 1880 there was practically no official divergence from this policy.

But this argument is not supported by Janet Morgan's biography, Agatha Christie, or by Laura Thompson's biography, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery ; both biographers state unequivocally, without further explanation, that Sleeping Murder was written in 1940.

The Canadian Sandhill Crane is morphologically not reliably distinct and was never unequivocally accepted as valid subspecies.

Because of their belief in republicanism, that is, the “ common people are the rightful rulers of their own destiny ,” the founding members saw themselves as “ furious democrats in theory ” and declared their movement to be “ wholly and unequivocally democratic .” Being a democrat and egalitarian in the mid 19th century was tantamount to being a revolutionary, and was something to be feared by political establishments.

Even more disturbing to the authorities was the tendency for workers ' demands to be explicitly and unequivocally political.

The DOI system was designed to provide a form of persistent identification, in which each DOI name unequivocally and permanently identifies the object to which it is associated.

This stood in contrast to the National Party, which was firmly and unequivocally behind the notion of preserving white supremacy at all costs.

In this article, Kristof cited as his source a “ former ambassador ” who had traveled to Niger in early 2002 and reported back to the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the State Department that the uranium “ allegations were unequivocally wrong and based on forged documents .” Kristof added, " The envoy's debunking of the forgery was passed around the administration and seemed to be accepted — except that President Bush and the State Department kept citing it anyway.

Though Sammael was not described as escaping, neither was his death directly narrated, and readers continued to suspect he was lurking in the shadows until author Robert Jordan announced him unequivocally dead during an interview: " He was killed by Mashadar.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

The university rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never to mention the color of their skins.

But Holmes was rejected again `` on the basis of his record and interview ''.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Pete's son was rejected.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal.

Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy with which Camus was associated during his own lifetime, he rejected this particular label.

In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).

He was taught by Theodore Beza, Calvin's hand-picked successor, but after examination of the Scriptures, he rejected his teacher's theology that it is God who unconditionally elects some for salvation.

An attempt to require an Annales-written textbook for French schools was rejected by the government.

Alcott was rejected by most public opinion and, by the summer of 1837, he had only 11 students left and no assistant after Margaret Fuller moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, he returned to Raleigh.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected.