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You can like and cite John, Thomas and Paul all you like, but I don't think Jesus' suicide-by-cop philosophy was good for him or anyone else. Then you don't believe in the Resurrection? And justice in the afterlife and the World to Come? He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life wil...

Until recently I had only encountered Dionysius the Areopagite in passing. He is mentioned in connection with Dionysius the Bishop of Corinth, as they had been equated by some. Others have thought that the real writer behind the pseudonym was Clement of Alexandria. This latter connection may be rel...

Who has more control of our thinking; God or Satan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcRXeCzpno I don’t know what God or Satan’s game is, but God giving Satan dominion over our political/physical realm as well as the power to deceive our spiritual/religious realm in us all seems counterintuitive to...

The real physical fact would be Jesus's earthly crucifixion. NOT the celestial crucifixion. In fact, I think you shouldn't use the word, "celestial" because that implies in outer space amongst the stars. Rather, the word, "spiritual" would be more accurate because it occurs in t...

I think i believe all the gospel accounts of Jesus's crucifixion are accurate. The stoic sorta Jesus who went to the cross heroically, the passionate Jesus who suffered and the gnostic Jesus who while suffering on the cross was above it laughing at the rulers. Because in my personal experience I, t...

[ concretely (=" in a substantial form ") on it. These simple words "in the substantial though invisible form", referred to this celestial crucifixion on Horos, are sufficient alone to make that celestial crucifixion in the outer space a concrete real physical fact. The real phy...

Given the fact that we are agreeing with a so high number of things (I recognize now that I was wrong to accuse McGrath of hypocrisy, but the accusation of ignorance remains all, insofar the question is not more about Valentinus being or not a celestial mythicist just as Paul - in the mythicist par...

McGrath denies the existence of mythicist Valentinians, i.e. Christians who placed the crucifixion in outer space , beyond if they had also a Jesus placed on earth. So, the mythicist position can include that early mythicist Christians believed that Jesus was crucified on earth as well as in outer ...

This is the first I've heard of sinaiticus as I'm not really one for getting hung up about specific translations, but I'm getting the vibe it's a forgery, not so much from his argument as the story is too fishy and $ involved, being paid to Stalin by the brits. That said, I have become partial to th...

Here are comments about Marcion and Aquila: Tertullian on Marcion: Perhaps he (Marcion) was hindered by some obstacle or else soem sorcery, or Saturn in quadrature, or Mars at the trine. For the Marcionites are very much into astrology, not blushing in shame that some make their livlihood from the ...