Very Early Understandings of Christ in A Later Book of the NT

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Show Notes

I have been trying to show that one of the oldest understandings of Christ in the early Christian movement -- in fact, *the* earliest in my view (and many other scholars), even though later it came to be declared a "heresy" -- is that Jesus started out as a human, nothing more, but came to be exalted by God to become his Son, the Lord. Read by Sam Devis

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