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MrMacSon wrote I'm intrigued by the proposition that Christianity mostly developed in an increasingly Hellenised-Jewish Alexandria I agree, and there are some other candidate loci as well: Rome, Corinth, Antioch, Ephesus..... Of importance, to my way of thinking, is the notion that Jews were found i...

John T wrote what you cited is not at all convincing that the original manuscripts of 1Peter and 2 Corinthians were written by the same author, in the 2nd century. That is, if that was your intent. My intent, John, was to agree with the OP, and with Leucius' point of view, and further, to dispute th...

Sheshbazzar wrote: Sounds like it would be a fundamental requirement for this 'Christos' religious cult movement, that a Jewish person must first learn, accept, and employ Greek religious terminology and names in order to join to, or to be accounted as a adherent of the 'Christos' cult. I don't agre...

John T wrote I'm not sure what your real intent is. Really, I don't understand. As far as calling a standard greeting and proclamation of Christian faith (e.g. 1 Pet 1:3 and 2 Cor 1:3) an elaboration that proves the gospels were written a century apart, well I don't know what to say about that other...

That is no donkey head. And, you may be absolutely correct. I am certainly no expert. The Alexamenos graffito could also be portraying a mule (sterile cross between a female donkey and a male horse). Regardless of the species intended for representation, the artistic component is quite inelegant. T...

Once again, what credible rediscovery, I repeat rediscovery of evidence must we have before mythicists and/or gnostics like LC will admit Jesus existed in the 1st century? ?rediscovery? I fail to understand. Can you explain, John, why we find Εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ...

Magnus Zetterholm attempts to use sociological methods to determine how Christianity eventually branched from Judaism in his book, http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/laodicea-columns-reveal-the-grandeur-of-an-early-christian-center/ so far as I am aware, (I am un...

Because he's a demented loon. http://bettydobson.blogspot.com/2011/08/canadas-national-bird-common-loon.html Some august members of the forum, may not recall, that SH is Canadian, so, he would naturally invoke for denigration, a symbol with which he had been familiar, though, for the life of me, I ...

There Is no tie to any Christian activity what so ever other then a date. A coin dated to 29 is the only tie they mention NO. WRONG. There is no evidence of a first century practice of Christianity. The coin is evidence only of the first century TPQ. There is no connection to Christianity, whatsoev...

ha'sooce is Hebrew for 'the HORSE' Donkeys, horses, and zebras are in the same group, yet, each is distinctive, just as we and orangutans, in the same group, are easily distinguished. Since the famous third century graffito, Alexamenos worships his god, represents someone mocking a crucified human ...