Corruption And Sin

Definition

The heresy of Julian of Halicarnassus asserting that Christ’s body was incorruptible, so that hunger, fear and death were pretense or only apparent — a form of Docetism; condemned by St. John of Damascus.

Episodes

Biblical References

  • 1 John 4:3 — *but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. *
  • John 1:14 — *Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. *
  • Acts 17:34 — *But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them. *