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Generalities: ---------------- As to #1, I'm not sure that any ancient religion had a full blown conception of literal creation from nothing. Matter (in a void/chaotic state) is eternal for all of them. In the beginning it must therefore have been merely crafted, and thus the need for a Craftsman or...

The letter of Pliny The Younger to Caesar appears to me to be fake. This strikes me as the key to it's being faked: There were others possessed of the same folly; but because they were Roman citizens, I signed an order for them to be transferred to Rome. If for some years Pliny (and more importantly...

Perhaps Christianity felt a need to back-date Jesus lifetime whereby to make it appear that Philo's conceptualizations with regard to 'two powers' came post, as opposed to coming pre-Jesus. And thereby to avoid some potentially serious embarrassment for the new Christian movement. And perhaps Paul w...

Was Philo a closet supporter (or perhaps even the initiator) of a 'Two Powers in Heaven' 'revival' movement from which Christianity eventually (and potentially post Philo) evolved? If so, Philo may be even closer to the root of Christianity than whomever was the original Paul.

Could Peter and Paul be but two aspects of Simon Magus? Perhaps something akin to the two sides of a coin. Isn't there a Patristic reference to Simon being OK with being called by just about any name one wishes to label him by?

Charles Wilson wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:19 pm https://themarginaliareview.com/why-josephus-matters/

Just <selected> the URL and it worked for me.
Try again?

Note: I tried the Re-Posted URL just above and it worked.
I dunno.

Works now!

Charles Wilson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 7:34 am https://themarginaliareview.com/why-josephus-matters/

CW

This link doesn't work for me. I get a blank page.

Paul knows the Scriptures of Israel (at least in Greek) well and also knows something of Greek rhetoric and Greek culture. But he is not a systematic theologian and is, in effect, writing a new constitution for a new kind of society – Gentile Christianity – that is really only an idea he has in his...

"Immar-El" is starting to come somewhat close to Emmanuel. Might that have been Jesus name while he was alive?

What is the 'human' name of your proposed 'Jesus'?