One of the earliest heresies the church had to fight was a teaching called Docetism.

The word comes from the Greek word “dokein,” meaning “to seem” or “to appear.” The Docetists taught that Jesus only appeared to be human. He was God, they said, and God cannot truly suffer or die. So His human body was just an illusion, a spiritual appearance that looked human but was not really human.

The New Testament dismantles this teaching completely. The evidence for Jesus' genuine humanity is not theoretical. It is biographical. It is written in sweat and tears and hunger and sleep.