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History of the Church (Part 1)
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The Mountain Goats
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in the early days of the christian church
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there was a movement among free thinking christians called gnosticism.
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now the gnostics believed that the incarnation of christ had been completely illusory
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and their reasoning was as follows:
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that if god is holy and the body is unholy,
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then god would not inhabit a body.
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hence people had been seeing things when christ walked the earth.
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now about this this time lived a man named polychar.
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polychar had received his teaching at the hands of john the apostle.
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it was polychar's earnest belief that the gnostics were heretics
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and he visited rome to tell them so.
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he met up with a guy named marcheon
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extremely influential among the gnostics.
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and marcheon, realizing polychar's status at having studied under john the apostle
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demanded that he be recognized.
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polychar was about sixty years old and he extended an aging arm
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and pointed toward marcheon and said i recognize
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i recognize
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i recognize
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the first born son of satan!
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that was polychar.
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