Augsburg Confession, Article One: Of God
reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting;
33. Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching his Manhood.
34. Who although he be [is] God and Man, yet he is not two, but one Christ;
35. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking assumption of the Manhood into God;
36. One altogether, not by confusion of Substance [Essence], but by unity of Person.
37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ;
38. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell [Hades, spirit-world], rose again the third day from the dead.
39. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God [God the Father] Almighty,
40. From whence [thence] he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
41. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies
42. And shall give account for their own works.
43. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.
44. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully [truly and firmly], he cannot be saved.
Remember when Eck presented his 404 Propositions? In this document Dr. Eck accused the Lutherans of every heresy. In this article the Lutherans state who they also disagree with and condemn their teachings: Manichaeans, Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians, Mohammedans, and the Samosatenes.
The Manichaeans were founded by Mani and spread out over most of the known world of the 1st millennium AD, from Spain to China. But the religion disappeared from the West in 10th century, and from China in the 14th century, and today it is extinct.
During the Roman Empire, Manichaeism got a strong position in North Africa - St. Augustine was a Manichaean for 9 years before his conversion to Christianity. For about 80 years starting in 762, Manichaeism was the state religion of the Turkic people Uighurs.
Manichaeism is the largest and most important example of Gnosticism. Central in the Manichaean teaching was dualism, that the world itself, and all creatures, was part of a battle between the good, represented by God, and the bad, the darkness, represented by a power driven by envy and lust.
These two powers were independent from each other, but in the world they were mixed. Most human beings were built from material from the bad power, but in everyone there was a
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