The Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul is a work from the New Testament apocrypha. In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. ...

It claims to describe the teachings of Simon Magus who had reached them, that God wasn't almighty, that the resurrection was false, that Christ wasn't bodily (i.e. docetism), that angels made the world (see demi-urge), and that the prophets were inaccurate. Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Magician, Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, was a Samaritan (Proto-)Gnostic. ... In Christianity, Docetism is the belief, regarded by most theologians as heretical, that Jesus did not have a physical body; rather, that his body was an illusion, as was his crucifixion. ...

Such an appeal to combat heresy is likely the work of an orthodox forger, attempting to create a biblical basis for their counter-arguments to their docetic and gnostic enemies. Gnosticism is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries A.D. General characteristics The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνῶσις), referring to the idea that there is special, hidden mysticism (esoteric knowledge) that only a few possess. ...