Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Before you leave this thread, go over what Freke and Gandy actually said about the amulet in their book: The reason for this bizarre book is just as bizarre as their reasoning. "It was a drawing of a third-century CE amulet. We have used it as the cover of this book. It shows a crucified figur...

I like the work you are doing lately, John T. Digging at the roots of the matter and getting behind all imposture and pretension. Good work. Since you are a fair-minded and serious fellow, when will you turn your criticism to the evidences of the historicity of Jesus? Once you're done skewering the...

" The more we studied the various versions of the myth of Osiris-Dionysus, the more it became obvious that the story of Jesus had all the characteristics of this perennial tale. Event by event, we found we were able to construct Jesus' supposed biography from mythic motifs previous relating to ...

I take it that we want to leave to one side the matter of the quote that is not, apparently, a quote? Abraxas Of the amulet: ΙΧΘΕΘΩΗΙΑΙΑΩ I'm willing to grant a probability that ΙΑΙΑΩ or ΙΑΩ reads for the Greek name of the Jewish God, and also to IX as reading out initials for Jesus Christ. http://...

The basis for Murdock's claim appears to be King's The Gnostics and their remains The celebrated letter of Christ to Abgarus was (according to Cedrenus) sealed with the initials of the seven Hebrew words, whose Greek interpretation was Θεὸς Θεοθὲν θαῦμα θεῖον. At the mere sight of the seal the king...

Please be assured that I do not consider you Leucius Charinus a smart-aleck and again I apologize for missing your point. So, if you would please, link the post or cut&paste the pertinent parts so I can review it. There have been earlier discussions on the following issues ... Were the Gnostics...

Those that believe in Astrotheology believe only in what they want to believe, regardless of the historical evidence. Here is a reconstruction of the historical evidence ... http://pages.uoregon.edu/klio/solarium/horologium_augusti.jpg So what should be believed or what should be disbelieved about ...

John T is truly the anti-mythicist one-man-wrecking-crew, first Carrier(via youtube), now Murdock (via goalpost moving) he sure has demolished them. I'm sure he remains comfortable in his faith. Nuance be damned! I'm only showing the other side of the coin. Actually, it was Bart Ehrman that demolis...

No response from mimi? What about slevin? Can he/she (or any of Acharaya's minions for that matter) cite the source that Acharaya used for the saying: " Jesus Christ God from God Iao "? If experts like Peter Kirby and DCHindley can't find it, what chance would a layman like me have? And wh...

Those that believe in Astrotheology believe only in what they want to believe, regardless of the historical evidence. Do you express doubt about the stones bearing the image of the ζoδιακoς κύκλος ? http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/zodiac.htm Do those stones not represent "historical evidence&q...