Sentences with phrase «christ descended upon»

Sometimes they held that, since the true God can never suffer, the spiritual Christ descended upon the man Jesus in the form of a dove at his baptism; Jesus then perfected his virtues and announced the Father; but before his sufferings and death the Christ withdrew again from the man Jesus, and it was only the man Jesus who suffered and died and rose again.

Some of the Ebionites accepted the virgin birth, but others held that Jesus was the son of Joseph and that the Christ descended upon him at his baptism.

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Yet he remains always in God and in his love, as Christ says in John: «Truly, truly I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.»»