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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 59
- Views: 406
Re: History trumps Theology
isn't this the difference between subjective and objective reality? like, for example, there are wars on-going right now where people are murdering each other. at some point won't people think that the metaphorical view is just an excuse to bypass what is condemned objectively? how is one view super...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How the Gospels got their attributions...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 53
Re: How the Gospels got their attributions...
the synoptics are not for sure early as 2 out of 3 of them are later revisions
so it's whether the proto-John is earlier than the original synoptic
how do we know that John doesn't preserve more ancient ideas?
so it's whether the proto-John is earlier than the original synoptic
how do we know that John doesn't preserve more ancient ideas?
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How the Gospels got their attributions...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 53
Re: How the Gospels got their attributions...
i think it looks like the gospels are being massaged to fit in with the Pauline narrative rather than they (or their sources) not existing prior to the epistles. why did Acts take pains to introduce Paul out of nowhere, because he wasn't originally there?
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
- Replies: 450
- Views: 13757
Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Frankenberg (1937) suggests a translation into Greek here of αγαθού (good one), which would change the interpretation a little, into something like a phrase for the kingdom of God. I don't necessarily agree with his suggestion, but I don't know of any better authority saying differently either. I h...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: History trumps Theology
- Replies: 59
- Views: 406
Re: History trumps Theology
I don't do any history? Maybe check my posts over the last 10 years. he's yanking your chain.. imagine if you were the moderator of a forum. you'd do the same, don't worry about it my advice is to do the Indiana Jones thing, I mean if you feel you have a gun and he's just got a sword you can just s...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 251
Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
the best way to know who the gnostics were is from the gnostic texts i mean if you want to know what they are, just read their texts and go from there. problem solved ,right? why go off secondary sources when we have primary ones. what the church fathers thought of them is they are some screwballs t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 251
Re: According to Irenaeus, who were the Gnostics?
one problem is the gnostic texts in the NHL library fail to hat-tip Simon at all as their founder, and on the contrary some are seen to oppose him outright so far i've not seen anything that supports interpreting Simon as the founder of Gnosticism and that is not necessarily contra Irenaeus or the o...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 854
Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
why not?it cannot equally be known how these groups shaped the interreligious dynamics of early Christianity
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 854
Re: Is *Ev a source of the Gospel of the Ebionites?
In what way does Acts "judaize" Paul? Paul calls himself a Jew (Gal. 2:15: "We who are Jews by birth") and was willing to be Torah observant around Jews (1 Cor. 9:5: "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law -t...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:04 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Flaw with Marcion priority theory?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 553
Re: Flaw with Marcion priority theory?
Chrestus looks like a non-Jewish version of Wisdom I think the XS of the gospels is the power Jesus encounters and works with and the idea Jesus actually is XS was a slightly later development, and the epistles are located in this later stratum. The only problem is, it's utterly against the consensu...