GakuseiDon wrote:and being blind also to this, that in none of the Gospels current in the Churches is Jesus Himself ever described as being a carpenter.
Thanks. Therefore the identification of Jesus with the ''carpenter'' (allegory of the Creator god) was never made by the Christians like Origen. For the latter, Jesus could be only the Son of the Creator God (YHWH).
The identification 'Jesus= carpenter' could have only a symbolic meaning, for Origen: that Jesus was
apparently the demiurge for the inhabitants of Nazaret (and that therefore he was
really the son of another God:
not the Creator God). Surely Origen didn't like that meaning.
This is a little Gnostic clues found in the Gospel of Mark.
The second highlighted quote isn't relevant to your question, but it's the previously mentioned 'zinger' that I like. (Also repeated in longer form in Ch 34).
Origen, moreover, in his book against Celsus, quotes the latter as saying :
“ You feed us with fables and cannot give them a shade of plausibility.”
At any case, if you want have evidence of a very old mythicist denial (by Gentile philosophers) of the existence of Jesus (possibly even before that he was euheumerized), read this
thread).