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*** the Father is "maker of heaven and earth, all things visible and invisible"
*** the Father is "maker of heaven and earth, all things visible and invisible"
**** heretics claimed that only heaven is divine and the earth is impure and of a god of darkness
**** heretics claimed that only heaven is divine and the earth is impure and of a god of darkness
**** known as "dualism" which divides the divine from the earthly
*** that the Lord Jesus Christ is "born of the Father before all ages... begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father... and was incarnate of the Virgin Mary"
*** that the Lord Jesus Christ is "born of the Father before all ages... begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father... and was incarnate of the Virgin Mary"
**** heretics claimed that Jesus the man was not divine, or that he was not actually human, and that he was not born of the Virgin Mary
**** heretics claimed that Jesus the man was not divine, or that he was not actually human, and that he was not born of the Virgin Mary