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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;

Reading Marcion's, 'Jesus came down to Capernaum', as a literal, flesh and blood journey, sounds strange to the ear - i.e. we use that sort of expression often (i.e. my sister came down to London - from up north somewhere or another). Since Marcion's gospel found no use for birth narratives - perha...

Joseph D. L. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:06 amMakes you wonder where God is going when he strolls on out of the Temple. Weird that Jesus ben Ananias appears, stage right and on his mark.

I suspect that Josephus was implying that God was about to put His weight behind the Roman side, with Vespasian as God's new favorite.