Christian Huff

But, you know, still dealing with that here some 2000 years later.

Well, you have the Ebionites that denied that Jesus was divine and they claimed that he was only like a human prophet.

You had the Gnostics that denied that.

We talk a lot about Gnosticism today.

but mainly because we're in 1 John right now on the broader landscape of the podcast.

They denied that God became man, and so they rejected the material world.

The material world is bad, and you need to escape that.

This world's going to hell in a handbasket.

It's evil.

and we've got to get out of the meat suit and get into our spiritual state so that we can be made one.

And some even claim that Jesus did not on a cross, which is, again, you see that over and over in Scripture.

I mean, Paul talks about that.

Some say that there's no resurrection of the dead, and he makes this incredible argument in 1 Corinthians 15.

He's like, hey, look, if there's no resurrection from the dead, Paul says, then guess what?

Then Christ wasn't raised from the dead.

And if Christ wasn't raised from the dead, then you're dead in your sins.

And if you're still dead in your sins, then those who have fallen asleep, they're just dead.

And if we only have hope for this life, he says, we're to be pitied more than all men.

So the center of the whole thing is, one, that Christ took on a body.

Two, that then that body actually was,