📜 DOCETISM — THE GREEK LIE THAT DENIED YESHUA’S SUFFERING
He Only Appeared to Suffer? That’s Not What Yhwh Said.
He Only Appeared to Suffer? That’s Not What Yhwh Said.
Docetism (from Greek dokesis, “appearance”) was an early heresy. It claimed Yeshua never had a real human body — that He only seemed to suffer, die, and rise. It was based on Greek thinking, not Hebrew truth.
Docetists believed:
So they said Yeshua couldn’t be truly human — just a divine illusion.
This matched Gnostic ideas and Greek dualism — not Torah, not the Prophets, not Yhwh.
Docetism taught:
Some even claimed another person died in His place.
Yeshua obeyed Yhwh. He suffered because of that obedience. He didn’t pretend. He was filled with the Ruach — not a spirit pretending to be human.
The Catholic Church rejected Docetism — but not to return to Hebrew truth.
They rejected one Greek idea with another Greek idea.
The Roman Church declared:
But this too is a lie — just wrapped in fancier Greek words. Torah never said Yhwh becomes a man. That’s Greek mythology — not Hebrew prophecy.
But these men weren’t teaching Moses or Jeremiah — they were using Greek and Roman law to defend a man-made religion.
Docetism and Catholicism are two sides of the same lie:
Both reject what Yhwh said:
Yeshua was not a god, not a ghost, not both.
He was a man filled with the Spirit of Yhwh — obedient to Torah, hated by the priests, and killed for the truth.
He didn’t fake it. And He wasn’t a divine-human hybrid.
He walked, suffered, and died as a servant of Yhwh — not as a Greek invention.