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But I strongly suspect the Marcionite tradition WAS the original Roman tradition. The Marcionite prologue to Romans indicate it wasn't originally Marcionite but founded by "false apostles", could you reconcile this for me? Romans are in the parts of Italy. These were reached beforehand by...

"Straightway, while I was contemplating these things, behold, the heavens opened and the whole creation which is below heaven shone, and the world was shaken. I was afraid, and behold I saw in the light a youth who stood by me. While I looked at him, he became like an old man. And he changed hi...

Didn't the Marcionite gospel have Capernaum as the place where he descended?

Isn't this almost exactly what Klinghardt argues except he uses the Gospel of the Lord as the source for Matthew instead of Luke?

... 'fish' in Hebrew = 50 which is the messianic jubilee which is evidenced at Qumran https://books.google.com/books?id=erY3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&dq=nun+50+jubilee&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij66bAqdDVAhVM6mMKHXmwArMQ6AEIOTAD#v=onepage&q=nun%2050%20jubilee&f=false which is the bes...

Good, glad I could finally contribute something useful. I feel mostly like an idiot reading all you guys and gals posts. :) The initiatory process according to Einar Thomassen is as follow: ( I . Catechesis and preparatory discipline.) 2. Baptism: Undressing, descent into the water, dipping while in...

The had a 'bridal chamber.' What's the evidence for Valentinian water baptism given what Irenaeus and Epiphanius (slightly differently) reference in terms of those who practice 'redemption' without using water or any material (= 'spiritual' by inference) substance. In our Irenaeus the discussion co...

Secret Alias wrote:It would seem to me that the 'female viper' of the Gaians was associated with the position in Adversus Haereses of either Marcosians or Valentinians that baptism wasn't supposed to involve water.

Valentinians had water baptism as far as I know.

Secret Alias wrote:Exodus original made explicit that Jews knew of two powers.

You also have De 32 which has Elohim dividing the earth among the sons of God and YHWH's portion is the Israelites.

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