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CERINTHUS

(Gk. Kērinthos)

A Gnostic who taught an adoptionist Christology and held that Jesus was the natural son of Joseph and Mary. Living near the end of the 1st century c.e., Cerinthus is a prime example of the tendency toward syncretism in the religious life of the Hellenistic world as he brought Jewish millenarianism, early Ebionite and Egyptian Gnosticism, and a lurid imagination to bear on his understanding of the nature of Jesus of Nazareth. Further, he seems to have held that matter is essentially evil; like Marcion, that the God of the OT was an angel or demiurge who created the natural order; that the supreme God was ultimately unknowable; and that following the second advent, Jesus would reign over a lavish and sensual earthly kingdom.

D. Larry Gregg






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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