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Docetism (a Christian application) means “to seem”. It is the belief that Jesus’ physical body was an illusion! Jesus only seemed to have a physical body (and to physically die) but in reality he was incorporeal, a pure spirit, and hence could not physically die. I want to make the application here though that fundamentalist Christians have and are doing the same thing to the Bible. They treat the Bible as something incorporeal, spiritual, written by the finger of the Spirit, and not by man.

More than just a book, the Bible is a LIBRARY of books! And that library has a different number of books in it depending upon whether you are Protestant, Catholic, or others.

Belief in Biblical inerrancy (especially in light of very obvious errors) is another form of docetism: Biblical docetism. Without realizing it (my interpretation) fundamentalists view the Bible as NOT a product of human creative processes over thousands of years, but a special spiritual product which has completely overridden anything man offered by this divine intervention.

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