Different sects

• Adoptionism

  • Jesus born human but adopted by God at his baptism
  • Rejected by Church in the 3rd century
• The Cathars

  • taught that physical matter was corrupt, so a perfect God could not become human
• Unitarianism

  • deistic understanding of God (once God finished creating the world he did not act anymore)
  • Just human with no divine authority
  • View not accepted by traditional churches/Christianity