What Is Manichaeans in the Bible?
Person
Followers of Mani, who taught that there are two gods, one good and one evil. Saint Augustine followed them when he was young.
It can mean
- Who Mani was: a Persian from the second half of the third century.
- What the Church says: there is only one God, creator of all. What he created is good.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 1:31
What the Bible says
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Manichæism”; Saint Augustine, “Confessions,” Book III; Catechism 299