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by rakovsky
Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:10 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

We have records of the early Church teaching that those who become Christian get communion, but we don't have any records of them ... possibly disrobing Christian art depicted baptism of the naked body. ... Getting naked was an important part of the ancient Christian ritual of baptism. That's a lot...
by rakovsky
Fri Apr 23, 2021 11:36 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 12 complains about the Canaanites using unholy rites and "secret rituals". That is actually further evidence of the Letter to Theodore being fake because it both cites Wisdom of Solomon as authority and promotes secret rituals. Wisdom of Solomon says to God: 3. Yo...
by rakovsky
Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:07 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

No wonder you like him. https://www.thedp.com/article/1999/03/around_higher_education_princeton_prof_sues_rock_bands_for_hearing_loss Suing a rock band for playing too loud is like complaining about nudity in a strip club. That's stupid. It's like complaining about MSG in a Chinese restaurant in De...
by rakovsky
Thu Apr 22, 2021 1:41 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

Tony Burke writes in "Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?" that The closest any scholars came to [giving evidence for forgery] were in arguments presented by Andrew Criddle, Ernest Best, and Philip Jenkins. In 1995 Criddle performed a statistical analysis of the Letter to Theodore purporting...
by rakovsky
Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:50 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Indisputable Historical Facts About Early Christianity
Replies: 113
Views: 27262

Re: Indisputable Historical Facts About Early Christianity

- Archaeologists have found Christian texts or art carbon-dated or otherwise scientifically dated to the 1st two centuries AD. I'm hesitant to call that indisputable, but it's generally the kind of thing people agree on. For example, we have papyrus pieces from that time period with passages from go...
by rakovsky
Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:25 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

(Word Choice) Remained "with" him is a normal English word choice. "Secret Mark" picks the Greek word "syn", lterally meaning "with." But John 1:39 and Mark 16 pick "beside (par) him remained" and "with/after (meta) him having been). Yes, but s...
by rakovsky
Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

Morton Smith's translation into English, per the pdf above, was: "And he remained with him that night." This goes along with the ISV and LSV for John 1:39 and sounds good in English, but it's not how Biblical Greek worked in John 1. Would not the first question be, is this an English idio...
by rakovsky
Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:06 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark
Replies: 184
Views: 169298

Re: A Suggestion for Revising the Early Writings' Entry for Secret Mark

In the Talk Section of the Wikipedia Page on "Secret Mark," someone claimed that "Secret Mark" uses English idioms, unfortunately the only example that they gave was the phrase "And he remained with him that night". Based on John 1:39, Biblical Greek uses the word for w...
by rakovsky
Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:28 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Secret Mark
Replies: 8
Views: 6041

Re: Secret Mark

Morton Smith had been promoting his theory that early Christians had secret occult sexually-related rituals Direct me to a publication pre 1958 please .... Craig Evans argues that Smith before the discovery had published three studies, in 1951,[294] 1955[295] and 1958,[296] in which he discussed an...