Jesus Christ was one person, thereby rejecting the claim that the spiritual Christ descended upon the human Jesus at the baptism and left him at the end; (2) that Jesus Christ, the one person, was capable of suffering, death, and resurrection. Also, it is possible that a response to Cerinthus would emphasize the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. All of these points that would of necessity fit into any response to Cerinthus are precisely those which we have seen Luke emphasize. The Lucan framework of Jesus' life is best seen as a response to the type of docetism that we meet in a late first-century Gnostic like Cerinthus. When the Third Evangelist says that Jesus was born Son of God, anointed by the Spirit, and that he journeyed to Jerusalem where he died and was raised before ascending bodily into heaven, he is saying ' No' to a docetism which claimed that the spiritual redeemer descended upon the man Jesus at the baptism and left him before his passion. At least a major facet of Lucan Christology is a way of saying to docetism that the church's Saviour was really human from first to last.