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- Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
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Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
The Philosophumena is a variant of Irenaeus's Against Heresies. Except that it includes this: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050109.htm The story of Pope Callistus as an abortionist among other things. Hippolytus, who was a binitarian heretic and the first anti-pope was hardly the mouthpiece of ...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47861
Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
It's at the very least descriptive. Hippolytus says nothing about a "mystical" or "secret" Mark, nor does he say Marcion's Gospel is Mark, rather he uses Mark and Paul as authorities against Marcion and other heretics. Elsewhere he says Marcion uses material from Mathew and refe...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:15 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47861
Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
While it was outside my immediate point about the number of corrupt or forged texts among the early writings of the Church, Marcion is connected with a mystic gospel of Mark in the Philosophumena, a third century adaption of Irenaeus's Against Heresies. Are you talking about this? When, therefore, ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:04 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Planetary Watchers? Maybe the Gnostics Were Right
- Replies: 3
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Re: Planetary Watchers? Maybe the Gnostics Were Right
Looks like Enoch was right: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/enigmatic-human-relative-outlived-neanderthals/ Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us A study published today in Cell adds a surprising new twist to their mystery: DNA from a large sampling of livi...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: On Determining the 'Secret' Homosexuality of Scholars
- Replies: 12
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Re: On Determining the 'Secret' Homosexuality of Scholars
Only someone who knows literally nothing about Christian practice would be shocked that a baptism was administered naked. Only a modern who sees porn everywhere would assume that "secret mark" depicts homosexuality.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47861
Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
.Achamoth' is an inaccurate Patristic attempt to render חכמת into Greek. Odd to chose it as an identity
The Demiurge sent me to mess with you.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:19 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47861
Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
What is the basis of your theory that "secret mark" is associated with Marcion? Mark works no better than Luke as Marcion's Gospel and "secret Mark" has nothing Marcionite about it. Either Marcion unaccountably chose a Gospel that refuted his whole theology, probably the version ...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 47861
Re: Did Morton salt Mar Saba?
Even granting your argument that the letter is authentic and that "secret mark" is truly the original reading, so what? If you add it to our Mark it merely explains who the man in the Baptismal shroud was during the following arrest scene. It has no effect on the overall narrative of the G...
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What Happened?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 47388
Re: What Happened?
Paul said he had a Gospel which presumably included Jesus's sayings.After all Paul is the one who seemed to emphasise the cross so much he didn't even need to relate anything Jesus said!
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The probable origin of the crucifixion: Numbers 21:9
- Replies: 17
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Re: The probable origin of the crucifixion: Numbers 21:9
With the Romans definitely crucifying so many Jews during the time period you hardly need any other explanation of where the crucifixion story comes from.