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What poll? Poll, table, survey, questionnaire, what ever you want to call it. Did those evangelists and/or Hollywood entertainers actually read the table and check the appropriate box and turn it in to the pollster or did someone else (Klaus Schilling) pigeon hole them (make it up) without their pe...

What are the scholarly credentials of Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, or Acharya S. that allows them to be considered scholars in the poll? This appears to be a push-poll (shaming) based on false premises by mysticists. :facepalm: I am not sure what that second sentence means, but the table also insert...

What are the scholarly credentials of Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, or Acharya S. that allows them to be considered scholars in the poll?

This appears to be a push-poll (shaming) based on false premises by mysticists.

This thread is a continuation of the discovery in another thread that Celsus the pagan critic of Christianity does not seem to know that Jesus is called 'Christ' by Christians. As John noted in that thread, he is aware that Jews express an interest in a warrior figure whom they call 'messiah' but C...

Some of Origen's comments were truly mind-blowing on his take on election and heavenly beings. Interesting. Such as? Pick-em. " Every believer-although the humblest in the church-is said to be attended by an angel, who the Savior declares always beholds the face of God the Father. Now, this an...

I am not aware of a coming heavenly figure at the end of time in the DSS. This is most likely because I have not studied the DSS. A couple of DSS sources that appears to be talking about a heavenly angel: 4Q521 A Messianic Apocalypse. IIQ13 Heavenly Prince Melchizedek. The prophecies are strikingly...

...But clearly at least now that we see Jesus isn't Christ EVER for Celsus this might be part of the solution.... No! What Celsus is saying is that he believes all demi-god stories are myths, e.g. Perseus, Aeacus, and Minos. The virgin birth story of Jesus makes him a demi-god and by default a frau...

Gnosticism is what Gnosticism does. That is, they claim to have a deeper understanding of all things paranormal/metaphysical and can fill in the gaps for those who can not see past the physical world. I don't see the Mar Saba letter as a modern day forgery as much as a distant anti-Christ echo that ...

Clearly Christianity was a forbidden association at the time Celsus was writing (1.1). Moreover there is a strange emphasis on Christianity as a mystery religion which seems to point to Alexandria and the Alexandrian Church as his point of contact. He says it is a 'secret association' (συνθήκας κρύ...

1. Enochic Judiasm is about prophecy and the end times and not just about angels and demons. The Sadducees gained political strength under the Hasmonaean kingdom and were no believers in angels, demons, nor the resurrection: (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit; but...