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Originally Posted by boxcar
The heresy doesn't deny Jesus' existence; rather it denies his bodily resurrection. Other forms of this heresies deny his physical existence but not his spiritual existence, etc.
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"It (docetism) ... started from the conviction that a divinity, such as Jesus would have been, could not truly enter into matter, that the very idea of God in human flesh was repugnant and indeed impossible." - Earl Doherty,
The Jesus Puzzle, Appendix 3.
"Later ... the dosetic stance shifted." Opus Citatum.
"... the so-called Docetists insisted that he only
seemed to have a real body of flesh but in fact had lived on earth as a phantom." - G.A. Wells,
Did Jesus Exist?
If you insist that Jesus existed as a spiritual being then that is a different question altogether, viz., does the supernatural exist?
This entire line of argument is a
straw man. If you apply the same approach to the question of geocentrism or the cause of disease you will find no ancient writings supporting heliocentrism or germ theory, yet it is highly doubtful that peer review well ever falsify heliocentrism or germ theory.
