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Counterfeit Christianity: The Persistence of Errors in the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Historic heresies didn’t die or fade away. Each generation boasts its own. Even while these counterfeit teachings remain outside the accepted bounds of Christianity, modern-day versions plague churches.So how does a church leader or pastor understand and deal with these age-old controversies when they pop up in the congregation? In this book, Roger Olson describes the curses but also gifts...

associated with Gnosticism. Today, many Christians consider any denial of Jesus’s true humanity as docetism whether it is attached to Gnosticism or not. One popular form of it is the saying that Jesus was “God with human skin on.” In other words, his humanity was only skin deep; he wasn’t really and truly human like us. Much of the New Testament and second-century Christian literature aimed at affirming Jesus’s true humanity. Some biblical scholars such as the German Walter Schmithals (d. 2009) believe
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