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Peter Kirby wrote: ... there are lots of Jesi flying about ...

Gawd, that's gonna start another cult; and census category ...

dewitness wrote:Merely repeating a passage with no explanation is of real value.

u mean - "Merely repeating a passage with no explanation is of No real value"?

1 Corinthians 12:3 may be an unlikely scripture to cite for evidence of an earthly Jesus in Pauline epsitles. However,in this particular epistle, Paul appears to be writing against those who curse the earthly Jesus and instead choose to worship a purely spiritual "Lord of Glory." Another ...

that he [Jesus in Antiquities 20.200] was even "called" christ shows the attempt fails. A priest is not "called" christ. That is nonsense. A priest is anointed, ie. is christ. Being "called christ" indicates a name type reference. Good point. perhaps a name deletion fo...

One of the versions of ' christ '/' christus ' means "annointed" or "chosen one" - these passages are about high priests being appointed: ie. anointed or chosen The end of Antiquities 20, Cap 9 says this But king Agrippa, ... denied the petitioners their request about that matter...

Josephus does mention James, the brother of Jesus in the following passage. And now Caesar, upon hearing the death of Festus, sent Albinus into Judea, as procurator. But the king deprived Joseph of the high priesthood, and bestowed the succession to that dignity on the son of Ananus, who was also h...

The last line underlined from Origen appears to argue why the books beyond the first 4 (Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn) should be considered truly as Gospel, even if they are not called out as Gospel typically as these four are, in answer to the objection immediately preceding, "it might be objected that the ...

The Fabricated Paul: Early Christianity in the Twilight; Hermann Detering (1995) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Links to the rest are here Here a review of Detering's views on Paul by JPH. . . His case against Pauline authenticity is a failure, and shall remain so. Hermann Detering's Falsified Paul: A Critiqu...

I try to make a point that things Origen wrote concur with Detering's views about Paul, then someone comes along and throws a spanner in the works - arnoldo with "JPH" * - and my initial point is lost. Does any one agree that the quoted works of Origen seem to be discussing the merits of t...

By taking Origen's writings out of context, it's possible to have it support any absurd claim. "out of context"? "any absurd claim"? hmmm For example, Origen's writings supports that all christian texts were forged in the following passage. . . And,I suppose, when we notice such...