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Damn, I was hoping it would be as glaringly obvious as

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:00 pm

Trees of Life wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:43 pmVirgin Mary:
Mary was the firstborn daughter of Joachim and Anna. ....

Mary of Clopas:
Mary was the second born daughter of Joachim and Anna. ....

Mary and her sister Mary. Sounds great.

And that is why ,theologically, cremation is a sin.

Exactly.

KJV FTw!

My decoder ring only spelled DRINK MORE OVALTINE

No, it's just another red-flag in the evaluation and reception of Paul's letters, and an indication of how much editing was involved. Though I'm guessing the name could be found in a list of heretics from some church writer or another. I have to wonder, with the inclusion of Titus in that passage, i...

Or the brother was in Paul's good graces but not the redactors.

Ben, do you think the original letter actually named an individual and later redactors replaced it with the phrase you underlined above? Kind of like the mysterious woman who annointed Jesus in Mark “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.... T...

Have any scholars explored the possibility that Saint Valentine of lover's fame, is a hagiographic co-opting of Valentinus, part of the absorption of Valentinianism into the larger church? He is the patron saint of love afterall, and Valentinianism was strong in the bridal chamber motifs.

I am the aleph and the yod.

Kinda squares with the two powers theory with jesus a theophany of yahweh, son of the God most high