The second form of heretical teaching developed among what was left of the Jewish Christian community, and was called Ebionism. Ebionites were traditional Jewish Christians who looked back to the earliest days of the Jerusalem church, and continued to practise the Old Testament law, e.g. circumcision. They regarded Jesus, not as God in the flesh, but simply as the supreme prophet, the one man who had perfectly obeyed God’s law. He became the Son of God by adoption at His baptism, and would return one day as the heavenly Son of Man to reign over the nations of the earth from Jerusalem.
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