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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Arianism
- Replies: 6
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The Monarchian Prologues
The Monarchian Prologues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchian_Prologues These are a set of Latin introductions to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with a Monarchian perspective. They were (+/- still are) thought to have been written in the second or third century by a ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Arianism
- Replies: 6
- Views: 235
Monarchianism, Sabellianism, and Arianism
Monarchianism Monarchianism, said to have developed in the 2nd century, is said to have affirmed the absolute, sole unity of God (in contrast to and against other concepts of God such as binitarianism or trinitarianism; and in contrast to bi- or tri- theism). The term Monarchianism derives from the...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Jesus as mediator and model: connections with Middle Platonism, demigods/heroes, and mystery cult saviors
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Re: Jesus as mediator and model: connections with Middle Platonism, demigods/heroes, and mystery cult saviors
Middle Platonism Pneuma, or spirit (ghost-wind in the shell) IMO per Plato_2.0, Pneuma is the invisible power that imparts motion to humans like the invisible wind in a ship's sail causes a ship to have motion. Literally a ghost-wind that causes humans to move, eat, etc. when present and drop dead ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
- Replies: 18
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Re: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
3. Resurrection in Ancient Judaism From the second century BCE onward clear traces of resurrection can be found in some Jewish texts. Claudia Setzer summarises the ambivalent views of ancient Judaism admirably: … Jewish materials from the second century BCE through the first century CE exhibit a ra...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
- Replies: 18
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Re: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
eta wrt 1 Cor 3:4: "He was raised" = ἐγήγερται / egēgertai : from ἐγείρω / egeiró : to waken, to raise up (7 of the 9 NT occurrences are in 1 Corinthians; one in Mark 6:14 (wrt Herod postulating John the Baptist) ; and one in Matthew 11:11 (it's a less common Greek verb for rise or raise ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
- Replies: 18
- Views: 626
Re: John Granger Cook 2017 article on the Question of an Empty Tomb in 1 Corinthians 15
1 Cor 15:3-5 ought be considered in light of the previous two verses: 1 I now make known to you, brothers, the gospel a that I proclaimed b to you, which you received and in which you stand, 2 by which you are being/shall be saved, by which c logo [ s ] d I proclaimed b ... a εὐαγγέλιον / euangelion...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
- Replies: 19
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Re: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
Not necessarily: if the Marcionite gospeltext post-dates the Pauline letters, +/- its author used them, the way the Markan author/s is/are thought to have used them, then the issue of which 'gospel' came first would be still in play.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 566
Re: Were Marcionites keepers of the original Christian faith?
Were the Marcionites the keepers of the original Christian faith? (1) Was their faith represented by the original Pauline epistles? If so, where did the author of the original Pauline epistles get his ideas from? Are you referring to the Marcionite versions of the Pauline gospels? or, Are you refer...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is 'called Christ' in Ant 20:200 a Christian gloss just as 'born by woman' is a Catholic gloss in Gal 4:4?
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Re: Is 'called Christ' in Ant 20:200 a Christian gloss just as 'born by woman' is a Catholic gloss in Gal 4:4?
God sent forth his Son,
It might not be eschatological, but it's certainly thematic of Judaism of the time
..γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικός, γενόμενον ὑπὸ νόμον
.genomenon ek gynaikos, genomenon hypo nomon
....coming of a woman,. coming under [the] law
.genomenon ek gynaikos, genomenon hypo nomon
....coming of a woman,. coming under [the] law
It might not be eschatological, but it's certainly thematic of Judaism of the time
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The gospel writers saw Jesus as an angel figure, gave him a version of the name Yahweh
- Replies: 9
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Re: The gospel writers saw Jesus as an angel figure, gave him a version of the name Yahweh
Early Christians in the era of the Kitos Wars and the Bar Kokhba uprising separated God from the Jews in two ways. Or that the God of the Jews is a minor demiurge. Or that the God of the Jews is the only God that the Jews did not understand Who were the first christ devotees and did they honor a po...