They therefore maintained that Jesus could only have had a spiritual body and that while on earth he merely appeared to have a fleshly body.
प्रथम - शताब्दी धर्मत्यागियों के समान, कैथारस ऐसे लोग थे जो “नहीं मानते, कि यीशु मसीह शरीर में होकर आया । ” — २ यूहन्‍ना ७.