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MrMacSon wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 3:26 pmAlso http://gnosis.org/hermes.htm (seemingly by some bad ass active here ...)

Wait...is Stephan A. Hoeller...Stephan Huller...Secret Alias, did you write that article?

There was also no crucifixtion PROVIDE SOURCES Idiocy and dishonesty are not credible methods of explaining what may or may not have been plausible in the past. Idiocy and dishonesty are not credible but you just employed both of them in quoting me massively out of context. Simon and the Simonians ...

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catecheses 6.31: Τούτου μαθηταὶ τρεῖς γεγόνασι, Θωμᾶς καὶ Βαδδᾶς καὶ Ἑρμᾶς. Μηδεὶς ἀναγινωσκέτω τὸ κατὰ Θωμᾶν εὐαγγέλιον· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἑνὸς τῶν δώδεκα ἀποστόλων, ἀλλ' ἑνὸς τῶν κακῶν τριῶν τοῦ Μάνου μαθητῶν. / This one [Mani] had three disciples: Thomas, Baddas, and Hermas. Let n...

But at some point these 'revisionist' theories have to decide whether the gospel and Christianity were directed against the Jews or against the Romans - it can't be both if it understood to have been produced as a reaction or in relation to Jewish revolutionary activity. It can be against both, jus...

themselves fictional character invented by Irenaeus,. You have nothing to support such an imaginative claim. Celsus may be fictional too, This is unsupported and downright dishonest Start providing sources for such blatant imaginative claims Simon and the Simonians are pure fiction. Irenaeus, the p...

Since the original link is an entire book, we might do well to point out that the focus of inquiry is just pp. 164-166. Contrary to a categorical finding there by Craig, the patristic party line was that Simon Magus or his followers taught that there was no actual Jesus, just something that Simon c...

Writings attributed to Ignatius do not attest any writings called Pauline Epistles. There is no historical corroboration for any person called Ignatius and no historical source to show an actual person named Ignatius wrote Epistles at the end of the 1st century. The writings attributed to Ignatius ...

becoming all things to all men is a claim of the author of Corinthians, not Galatians. Corinth man gives two different views of eating meat offered to idols (its ok cuz idol aint real vs dont eat that because idols are demons)....but Galatia man has one position: try to keep the law of moses and you...

Ignatius (who is writing against an unnamed Marcionite-like doctrine decades before Marcion) acknowledges the existence of Pauline epistles but his claims of what's in them shows he has no clue what's in them or cannot accept much of what's in them. Most likely he is the beginning of an attempt to f...

Fish are out of place on land, like Jesus as the Good Stranger was out of place in the Demiurge's world. Fish come from the deep, the unkown, as he was unknown prior to his appearance. Plenty of Marcionite explanations I can think of. Fish don't procreate by sex in the normal sense of the term, so t...