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- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:18 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24763
Re: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
Perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't see that there are any particular assumptions necessarily inherent to the mere use of the word "pagan" by modern historians. If I did, then I might agree with you.
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:21 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The quest for the historical Christian communities
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15750
The quest for the historical Christian communities
Victor Paul Furnish has some brief words to say against a crop of writers questioning the historicity of Jesus, including: http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/is-this-not-the-carpenter/ "Moreover, most of the contributors take little account of the role of the Christian communities withi...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: atheist sunday service
- Replies: 13
- Views: 31192
Re: atheist sunday service
There aren't that many highly visible opportunities - especially for someone who might otherwise be "socially undesirable" (old, fat, disabled, etc.) - to have a regular and supportive social gathering weekly, outside of the institutions that have aped the Jewish, Christian, and other reli...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: my Testimonium article
- Replies: 88
- Views: 101020
Re: my Testimonium article
How often does Josephus refer to anyone as "the brother of"? Plenty. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aearlyjewishwritings.com+josephus+%22brother+of%22&oq=site%3Aearlyjewishwritings.com+josephus+%22brother+of%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6794j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=2...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24763
Re: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
Right away I like how this guy thinks. I can't believe historians actually use the dumb Christian slander "pagan" as if it were appropriate or even meaningful. Hellenic is not a direct equivalent to "pagan." I don't think historians, in general, like the etymology of "pagan...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:17 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianity
- Replies: 137
- Views: 124666
Re: Archaeological Evidence of pre-Constantinian Christianit
Your original point was to support your idiotic contention that there were no witnesses to Christianity before Nicaea. None of these sources do that - so shut the fuck up. Without dumbass quote mining, he'd have nothing to say. And avi should be ashamed for promoting it. I'd like to see the forum m...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Megyn "Jesus was a white man ... He was a historical figure"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11174
Re: Megyn "Jesus was a white man ... He was a historical fig
"Jesus was a white man, too. He was a historical figure. That’s a verifiable fact." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV_9ch2kQ3c#t=118[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/LV_9ch2kQ3c[/youtube] [youtube]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 7:03 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: “High/Early Christology”: A Crack in the Foundations?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 26122
Re: “High/Early Christology”: A Crack in the Foundations?
As Chester observes, it’s really the evidence that seems to require the conclusion that Jesus-devotion erupted rapidly and originated in circles of Jewish Jesus-followers in Judea . That conclusion (with variations in emphases) is now supported by a wide (and growing) spectrum of scholars. (a retir...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Historicity of Jesus - the Talking Points
- Replies: 18
- Views: 40621
Re: Historicity of Jesus - the Talking Points
Herculean task, you say? Sounds like fun.
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Historicity of Jesus - the Talking Points
- Replies: 18
- Views: 40621
Re: Historicity of Jesus - the Talking Points
But the Gospel of Mark was written in the 1st/2nd AD and refers to Pilate, a figure of the 1st AD. It may still be a work removed from the description of the real world even then, but it is in that case a good question why it would choose to refer to the end coming in the lives of some of those sta...