Christian teachers tended simply to repeat what the New Testament says, without necessarily having any deep understanding of what it meant. However, two forms of teaching developed which the Church regarded as deviating from apostolic doctrine and therefore as heretical. The first was called Docetism (from the Greek dokeo, “to seem”).2 Docetic views were widespread in Asia Minor. According to Docetism, Jesus Christ was not a true human being. Christ only seemed to be a man; in fact, He was a purely