Did the early church condemn the teaching that God the Father is a person with a body living in space somewhere?
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Wikipedia's list of Christian heresies turns up Audianism. This fourth-century group understood Genesis 1:27 to teach that God has a body like men.
This is a form of anthropomorphism, which is more broadly defined by the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia as:
Anthropomorphism is the ascription to the Supreme Being of the form, organs, operations, and general characteristics of human nature.
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