Damascus is Semitic for “cup of blood”.
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- Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
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- Thu Oct 26, 2023 7:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Early Christian Ebionaen Canon
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- Views: 1152986
Re: Damasco vs. Damascus in Tyndale NT
Is there any sort of link between Damascus (blood cup, or cup of blood) and the Eucharist?
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mark's downer Gospel
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Re: Mark's downer Gospel
Your summary succinctly nails it. Given the Synoptics alone, and particularly more so for Mark alone, its hard to imagine that a Christianity would have ever achieved prominence.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: “In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion”
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Re: “In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion”
Those who directly witnessed the survival of the man whom Josephus saved from the cross may have perceived that which they witnessed as a resurrection miracle, later to be contorted and embellished via oral transmission.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: “In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion”
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Re: “In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion”
I wonder if the man whom Josephus brought down from the cross might have been one and the same as the Jewish revolt leader who was (later) tossed off of the Tarpeian Rock to his death in Rome? I.E., Simon bar Giora...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "John the Baptist" == Qumran
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Re: "John the Baptist" == Qumran
So John The Baptist is perfectly interchangeable with a building/fortress complex.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:17 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The right and wrong of Roman Provenance
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Re: The right and wrong of Roman Provenance
For this position to exhibit coherence, Mark must be Marcion. As your opening paragraph grants the founding of Christianity to Mark, while your closing paragraph grants the same to Marcion.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "John the Baptist" == Qumran
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1855
Re: "John the Baptist" == Qumran
The burden of proof lies with the beholder.
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: πίστις Χριστοῦ (faith of Christ) survey question
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- Views: 2911
Re: πίστις Χριστοῦ (faith of Christ) survey question
No, they have not misread Paul as they have forged and faked him deliberately from thin air. Indeed! The words 'Jesus' and/or 'Jesus Christ' (or 'Christ Jesus') appear to have been forced into all of these passages, with some padding in the form of 'cover ones tracks' insertional lead in cutting fo...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:38 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A Play with Mirrors: The Parable of the Sower
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Re: A Play with Mirrors: The Parable of the Sower
This statement "Then tribulation or persecution having arisen on account of the word, immediately they fall away." as found within the answer to the parable presents a clear indication that the Gospel attributed to Mark definitively dates later in composition than that which is commonly ac...