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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.

Why did the "Baptism of John" bring (land) the Holy Spirit upon Jesus, but not bring the Holy Spirit upon anyone else?

Was daily Temple animal sacrifice intended to cover merely lesser, such as (for example) inadvertent sin, or all sin at all levels, no matter how grievous? If the latter, then why have prisons, or tortures on up to capital punishment? Why not simply sacrifice an animal or two (etc...) and call it a ...

It seems that at least a couple of the above are not actually Antithesis. Rather they are adding additions that go beyond the original but seem to still be in support the original. I can't fully accept that these are Marcion's Antithesis.

When and why did the Christian churches move services from Saturday to Sunday? Can this move be attributed to any individual?