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I don't know if this holds true for gods, but as the saying goes, if you've seen one invisible man, you've seen them all.

Original Manuscript?

If Epiphanius quoted from non-canonical texts, wouldn't that imply that to him they were every bit as authentic and efficacious as actual Canonical texts?

Epiphanius was a biased and prejudiced person. However, as far as we can tell he quotes accurately from the written texts available to him. Andrew Criddle If true, this would be a clear indicator that the so called 'Canonical' texts are perversions of earlier strata texts, would it not? I don't see...

Perhaps the reason is that the earliest strata of gMark didn't know of the Pauline epistles at all. This is my favored position.

andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:24 am Epiphanius was a biased and prejudiced person. However, as far as we can tell he quotes accurately from the written texts available to him.

Andrew Criddle

If true, this would be a clear indicator that the so called 'Canonical' texts are perversions of earlier strata texts, would it not?

In my opinion, if there ever was a factual living and breathing man who eventually somehow became known to us as 'Jesus', he likely spoke of a coming 'Son of Man', but did not consider himself to be this 'Son of Man'. And thus when some (such as Peter) began a movement proclaiming their hope that he...

1 through 7 are spot-on!

So Paul told the disciples (of whom, John or Jesus?) that they needed to be baptized in the name of Jesus whereby to receive the Holy Spirit. They were then baptized in the name of Jesus, yet they still lacked the Hold Spirit. The name of Jesus was not efficacious. It was only after Paul laid his ha...

The young man in white garments (likely one an the same as the boy/young man who fled naked) may have been intended to become the star of a sequel that never materialized.