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The Gospel of Luke also describes the archontes as being responsible for crucifying Christ: that is precisely an independent euhemerization from the euhemerization of Jesus himself. Another example is this . Obviously the point is valid only under the authenticity of the epistles. Well, that's the ...

Wells confutes your "if and only if" on Paul: Perhaps Doherty's strongest point is Paul's assertion (1 Cor.2:8) that Jesus was crucified by supernatural forces (the archontes ). I take this to mean that they prompted the action of human agents: but I must admit that the text ascribes the ...

Was this "church/assembly of God" fully foreign, or was it a Romanized version of Judaism? That's unclear, but it is clear that Paul recognized it as not "traditionally Jewish". That's right. As Paul explains he went from being "extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions...

Religions such as Mithraism and Christianity may have been attempted eventually to be co-opted, but were not original to Rome. It may not be related to the theories you are referring to, but I think a case could be made that Christianity was original to Rome. Rather than co-opted by Rome though, Ro...

I take Tertullian to be saying that Jews called Jesus a Nazarene because he was a Nazirite in accordance with naziritism the OT. It has nothing to do with belief in anything. It's just a matter of fact. If Jews had called him Jesus the Carpenter, I suppose Tertullian would have said it was in accor...

The religious content market works like any other. There is some content offer from which market players select products and attack selected groups of consumers. If you choose or create niche products for a niche group, you will lose because in religion the most important thing is the territorial s...

One possibility (possibly wrong) is that Marcion (or his literary aid/s) worked from a manuscript of Luke and from a manuscript of Matthew to attempt to present the authentic, un-interpolated original Gospel. Assuming he worked from those manuscripts, then: what was he working with ? Insight, revel...

That, I think, is Marcionism. I am Marcion, the Man of Pontus, because we are all Marcion, Man of Pontus. Each of us attempts to recreate the world to fit how we can best economize it to suite our understanding of it so we can cope and survive. Marcion is human psychology. Marcion is human philosop...

spin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:32 pm(And GakuseiDon whinces, "Oh no, not another fabricated interpolation!?")

Haha, true! But what you write makes a lot of sense.

Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;