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by Kapyong
Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:33 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion
Replies: 20
Views: 18113

Re: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion

Gday :)
iskander wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:01 pm "Jesus Mythicist" is an unusual alias, why not a 'plain atheist' studying the history of human thought ?
Jesus Mythicist has stuck as the term for those who argue Jesus was not historical.

But it doesn't connect with atheism, I'm not an atheist.


Kapyong
by Kapyong
Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:53 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion
Replies: 20
Views: 18113

Re: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion

Gday iskander :)
iskander wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:34 pm a "Mythicist" is nothing more than a person who does not believe in the existence of gods . Is there anything more to it?
The only True Mythicist around here is a Jesus Mythicist :cheers:

Kapyong
by Kapyong
Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:07 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion
Replies: 20
Views: 18113

Re: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion

Gday Secret, Alas ! The real question for Kapayong is WHY DOESN'T Epiphanius mention mythicists? The short answer is they didn't exist in antiquity You are correct, they did not exist. At least, not in the exoteric histories of the day. Because Epiphanius carefully erased them from profain history, ...
by Kapyong
Fri Dec 29, 2017 2:25 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion
Replies: 20
Views: 18113

Re: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion

Gday Stuart :) I was also put off by Kapyong's self promotion, to rank himself among the noted scholars. Hence my comment about it belonging in the lounge area. Noted scholar ? Pfffft ! I called myself an excremental dag / hanger-on. Dags refer to the shitty wool that follows a sheep's rear-end. Alt...
by Kapyong
Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:31 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion
Replies: 20
Views: 18113

The Lost Chapter of Epiphanius' Panarion

The Medicine Chest of Epiphanius. Heresy 61, and 81 of the series. Against Mythicists. I turn now to the most recent, and pernicious heresy of all - Jesus Mythicism, a foul poison which can only find origin at the hoary hand of the Enemy himself. How can any knowledgeable person not laugh out loud a...
by Kapyong
Sat Dec 09, 2017 3:38 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Why I don't see myself as a Christ Mythicist
Replies: 78
Views: 53782

Re: Why I don't see myself as a Christ Mythicist

Gday robert j :) no-one claimed Paul fabricated his conversion. No-one is an awful lot of people. Fabricated ? I don't want to quibble over semantics, but it seems quite possible that Paul used the LXX to construct his conversion story. Fair point - I should have said no-one here has claimed such a ...
by Kapyong
Sat Dec 09, 2017 1:50 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Why I don't see myself as a Christ Mythicist
Replies: 78
Views: 53782

Re: Why I don't see myself as a Christ Mythicist

And it is possible that these fabrications reflect a conspiracy by Paul and the author of Acts. (Although why Paul would have fabricated all the nonsense about his conversion is beyond me. It would have been far easier had he simply claimed to have been a trusted apostle.) Ah, the old 'conspiracy t...
by Kapyong
Sat Dec 09, 2017 1:38 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier versus Hurtado about what there was in the mind of Philo
Replies: 71
Views: 45475

Re: Carrier versus Hurtado about what there was in the mind of Philo

Gday Isayre :) In which of Richard Carrier's books is this threads subject best discussed? In more than one way I'm highly repelled by Carrier as to both his person and his personal life choices, so I'm (unfortunately perhaps) biased against him thereby (perhaps in this regard somewhat similarly to ...
by Kapyong
Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:47 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carrier versus Hurtado about what there was in the mind of Philo
Replies: 71
Views: 45475

Re: Carrier versus Hurtado about what there was in the mind of Philo

Kapyong, please post the next sentence of the Loeb translation? My wager is that it may incorporate a phrase in correspondence with πολυώνυμον ὑπάρχοντα -- in the next sentence. If so, here's your alignment: κἂν μηδέπω μέντοι τυγχάνῃ τις ἀξιόχρεως ὢν υἱὸς θεοῦ προσαγορεύεσθαι, σπουδαζέτω κοσμεῖσθαι...
by Kapyong
Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On the Hurtado's answer to my question
Replies: 36
Views: 21857

Re: On the Hurtado's answer to my question

Gday MrMacSon :) edited: Euhemerisation is to : 'reduce' a god back down to a n supposedly earlier historical person. Fair ? It's just historicising a god into a non-historical person, not quite the same thing. Reifying ? Historicisation ? Historicisationifying ? How about historifying ? Carrier use...