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How can Marcion be opposed to John when baptism is the central tenet to Marcion's theology? If anything John the Baptist is a proxy for the earliest layer of Marcion, even more so if you assume ur-John was Marcion's actual text. Jesus and John are practically the same person. Now Herod the tetrarch ...

Marcion calls John the Baptist the greatest prophet of all time.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:42 am

Redeemed slaves were branded with a Latin F if I am not mistaken = Christian redemption.

Phlegon was a freedman of Hadrian's and is mentioned in Romans 16.

You don't have to wonder because it's not there.

You're welcome.

Was there also a man in outer space who got swallowed by a space whale too?

Well that's not what the passage says and there is no textual variation of what you are suggesting, so it is a waste of time. You're only option is to literally rewrite the text to make it fit your claim.

The sign of the Son of Man in heaven can be anything, from Pisces or Aries, to Cygnus, to an eclipse, or any number of celestial phenomenon. It could even have been a supernova. But what it cannot have been is a celestial "crucifixion" because that is neither a sign or a prophetic fulfillment. Moron.

Utter bollocks.

Jax wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:31 am

Any thoughts on what exactly Paul's tattoos of Jesus might have been?

Well basing this on SA's and Ben's conversation a few days ago, I was thinking it was digamma, a Greek archaic letter shaped like an F and was pronounced as wau, also signified the number 6.

And significance of the various stories of Jesus' actions on and preaching from boats on the 'Sea of Galilee' (a name the gospel authors made up) Aye aye. And Pontius Pilate is a reference to the Pontus and mariners. (My opinion is Marcion, Pilate and Longinus are essentially representing the same ...