Cerinthus

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Cerinthus

Religious Studies

#325

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Theology

#372

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Cerinthus

Philosophy

#892

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Logic

#625

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Why Is Cerinthus Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Cerinthus was an early Gnostic, who was prominent as a heresiarch in the view of the early Church Fathers. Contrary to the Church Fathers, he used the Gospel of Cerinthus, and denied that the Supreme God made the physical world. In Cerinthus' interpretation, the Christ descended upon Jesus at baptism and guided him in ministry and the performing of miracles, but left him at the crucifixion. Similarly to the Ebionites, he maintained that Jesus was not born of a virgin, but was a mere man, the biological son of Mary and Joseph.

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