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The above quoted passages clearly indicate (to me) that to Paul the god of Moses was effectively the same god being referred to in harshly literal translations of John 8:44, such as the translation done by April DeConick. Moses worshiped the Serpent. As opposed to this, the very image of Paul's God ...

Correlation does not imply causation.

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The Pastoral Epistles appear to be similarly anti-Marcionite, and may have been penned by Polycarp.

Is it Markus Vinzent who believes that Ignatius is a dogma filled polemic against Marcionism?

On traditional dating of the Apostolic fathers 1 Clement Ignatius and Polycarp. Also statements attributed to early Gnostics that seem to be exegesis of Paul (e.g. Basilides according to Hippolytus When, therefore, he [Basilides] says, the entire Sonship shall have come, and shall be above the cont...

What evidence do we have for the definitive existence of any letters purported to be from Paul prior to Marcion?

I would have it, rather: Mark, Marcion, Matthew, proto-John, Luke-Acts, John. I agree! If some of the post-Beatitudes words of Jesus spoken during the Sermon On The Mount are stolen from among Marcion's Antithesis it would seem to be necessary that Mathew's Gospel is post that of Marcion (with all ...

I believe that Robert Eisenman expounded upon the point that the 4th Philosophy "type" had their own non-establishment Priesthood, of which Jesus brother James was a prime example. Being seen as Born Again might have been a secret code (of sorts) for clandestinely transitioning from the es...

The 4th Philosophy is strong with this one. Meaning here whomever we came to know as Jesus, which was quite potentially not his real name, in addition to the much larger overall 4th Philosophy insurrection picture being painted by Charles Wilson as a movement within the divided Priesthood. Wherein C...

Very descriptive of a human Jesus who has a very down to Earth insurrection leading mission ahead of him. It brings a fresh perspective to conversion and the concept of being born again. Every convert who is born over to the side of the insurrectionists is from a certain yet variously coded secret '...