| Docetism (a Christian application) means "to seem". It | | | | Doctrine determines destiny. |
| is the belief that Jesus' physical body was an illusion! | | | | The Bible is the sacred text of all people who call |
| Jesus only seemed to have a physical body (and to | | | | themselves Christians. I don't know how it can be |
| physically die) but in reality he was incorporeal, a pure | | | | any other way. But to take a docetic (non human) |
| spirit, and hence could not physically die. I want to | | | | apaporach is just too much for me. Neither can the |
| make the application here though that fundamentalist | | | | Bible be taken as the first authority in ALL matters. |
| Christians have and are doing the same thing to the | | | | No where does the Bible tell me what kind of vehicle |
| Bible. They treat the Bible as something incorporeal, | | | | I should buy, the style of a home I should live in, nor |
| spiritual, written by the finger of the Spirit, and not | | | | is it a scientific or history book (though it does |
| by man. | | | | contain "some" of both). |
| More than just a book, the Bible is a LIBRARY of | | | | We must read the Bible with the Spirit of God and a |
| books! And that library has a different number of | | | | spiritual integrity as well. |
| books in it depending upon whether you are | | | | Additionally, fundamentalists take the view that |
| Protestant, Catholic, or others. | | | | where there is a difference between what science |
| Belief in Biblical inerrancy (especially in light of very | | | | says (heliocentrism) and what the Bible says |
| obvious errors) is another form of docetism: Biblical | | | | (geocentrism), the Bible prevails. The Bible trumps |
| docetism. Without realizing it (my interpretation) | | | | everything, including common sense, and |
| fundamentalists view the Bible as NOT a product of | | | | overwhelming empirical evidence. Such bias, especially |
| human creative processes over thousands of years, | | | | in light of scientific facts, is more than troubling. It's |
| but a special spiritual product which has completely | | | | superstitious and detrimental to the Kingdom, the |
| overridden anything man offered by this divine | | | | Gospel, and sound Christian witness. |
| intervention. | | | | |