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So was Philo not universalistic in your view? I note that you are not confuting the Rylands's argument linked above about the Odes. Philo was a Hellenist who acknowledged the use of the Temple as the center of Judaism; the Odes are clearly post-Temple, writing that it had been carried away in a flo...

about evidence that the Odes are pre-70 read here. http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3141&start=60#p87088. His [of the author of the Odes] universalistic outlook is indeed apparent in the extracts already given. emphasize added Right there, the supposed evidence for a pre-7...

I say it because of this point: why some Jewish Christians introduced the idea that Christ wasn't killed while another man was killed in the his place. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality. No, that was the original mystery, that Jesus had been killed while another was freed, or escaped. Bu...

The community of the Odes of Solomon was a pre-70 Jewish community in the Diaspora that was anti-Jewish (and persecuted by the Jews) and adored the god of the Jews, according to prof Stevan L. Davies. Also the Naassenes were pre-70 Jews from the Diaspora but they hated the god of the Jews. All of t...

You seem to alternate between arguments that only work if you presuppose historicity, and arguments presuming mythicism. Which is it?

No, I am not supporting a gentile-first Christianity. You have made comments in the past about Christianity being "Judaicized". You even say so here: The incident of Antiochia proves that a conflict happened between gentiles and Judaizers. Before the 70. What exactly is a Judaizer? Someon...

Not at all. Paul makes several comments that only make sense in a post-Kitos era, seemingly supports Hadrian's policies, and at once upholds certain Jewish customs while opposing others. I think you're not realizing that the situation is far more nuanced than you think, all in an attempt to support ...

But you talk about Paul as if he was a Jew. That is fine. But then you can't move the his epistles in 2° CE, unless you make him a Gentile (i.e. Marcion of Sinope). I don't understand how you can make such a statement. Paul himself speaks of his tutelage in Judaism in Galatians , constantly reitera...

Was "Jesus" an addition? The short answer: no. The long answer: Jesus Christ, or Isu Chrestus, is entirely applicable to Pauline Christology, wherein the spirit was pre-existent in the realm of heaven (I would argue it existed in the sun), and would descend and enter a righteous enough ho...

Celsus may be as late as Zephyrinus and Severus, who also co-ruled with his son, Caracalla.