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If read side by side with John 8:44 it seems perfectly reasonable for a John 8:44 sympathizing 'Zig' Paul to be implying within 1 Cor 10:18-20 that Temple sacrifice was commensurate with demon worship. Perhaps what is needed whereby to restore more of a sense of Paul's (or whichever school first wro...

I believe it was Roger Parvus who labeled Paul "the Zig-Zag Man". I take it that he meant that there were multiple hands in the soup that ultimately became each individual Canonical Pauline letter, such that nearly every Zig (Pauline point of view, or perspective, or directive, etc...) add...

Did not the Priests partake of a partial of the offerings they present to the flames of the Alter?

Indeed by removing the word 'gentiles' (or Pagans) and replacing this text with the word 'they' the 1 Corinthians 10:18-20 passages do read far more coherently.

Per the Jewish Encyclopedia: https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/arti ... on#anchor3

All that remains is to date the Metatron sources whereby to determine the potential for them to have sprung from the pre-Christian era.

More Metatron-Moses linkage:

https://www.amazon.com/Ascension-Moses- ... B089W4NDDV

The relevance here to the OP being that Metatron is pre-Christian.

Metatron as the "Prince of the World" (or lord of this world): The Merkabah tradition stresses the role of Metatron as “governing power over the nations, kingdoms and rulers on earth.”[58] Chapter 30 of 3 Enoch pictures Metatron as the Prince of the World Mlw(h r#, the leader of seventy-tw...

In Islamic tradition, Metatron is known as Mīṭaṭrūn, the angel of the veil . That would potentially equate Metatron with Moses in some way. And Moses affinity with Serpents may equate him with a Belial of sorts. And it might also have something to do with the rending of the veil of the Temple from t...

Go to 28:30 and begin watching there. Christine Hayes of Yale University...

https://youtu.be/ANUD8IK12ms

It is disputed as to whether or not a creator god actually created matter Ex Nihilo, or if it was eternally extant, and said god merely crafted it. Genesis 1:3A When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God...