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- Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:08 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
- Replies: 103
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Re: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
If you think this literature contains any history you will be mistaken. The church industry has simply fabricated a history. It's called propaganda, fraud and forgery. While the texts attributed to the Church Fathers hardly contain accurate 'orthodox history',* they do reveal history of the side-li...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:48 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 9304
Re: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
It's a little different than Mormonism. It's a 4th century Mormonism on imperial steroids with almost 1,700 years of development. The early sects and the variation within the Church Fathers. It's madness what you suggest. The 4th century "Historia Augusta" has the same modus operandi. &qu...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1838
Re: The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
FYI: no text ever mixes these, save for the NHL (and a minute selection of Greek fragments). Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus mix but only because of the various separate hands - which naturally is most invaluable information. Thomas consists of one single hand save for the first 8 lines of l...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:56 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1838
Re: The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
Nevertheless, the use of different nomina sacra in the prologue of the gospel seems to be significant. Thanks for your interest in the runes Kunigunde Kreuzerin. I'd have to agree that the different nomina sacra in the prologue of the gospel (Coptic vs P.Oxy. 654) seems to be significant. As does t...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 9304
Re: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
If the Church Fathers are our only source of information about early Christianity why do so many here arguing for another understanding of Christianity which is TOTALLY DIVORCED from the Church Fathers? The "memoirs" of the church fathers are like Joseph Smith's "Golden Plates" ...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Carry your satyr in my way - said Dionysus
- Replies: 35
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Re: Carry your satyr in my way - permanent erection and ejaculation
Thomas calls to "Carry your satyros in my way", and that can only mean that he has a permanently erect penis - metaphysically speaking Satyr ....... = σάτυρ ος (translit. sátyros) Satirist ..... = σατυρ ιστής Are these words related? What is the Greek word for "satire" ? Was Tho...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1838
The two ligatures for Jesus - IS and IHS - in the Gospel of Thomas
In the following the terms ligature, nomina sacra , abbreviation, rune, encryption are inter-changable. Martijn Linssen has pointed out that there are two separate ligatures - IS & IHS - in the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. The dominant ligature is the two letter abbreviation IS . This occurs 102 tim...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: IS XS: No Jesus or Christ spelled out in early MSS
- Replies: 112
- Views: 19595
Re: IS XS: No Jesus or Christ spelled out in early MSS
Jesus the Chrest – Nomina Sacra in the Nag Hammadi Library https://www.academia.edu/84288595/Jesus_the_Chrest_Nomina_Sacra_in_the_Nag_Hammadi_Library Introduction An unusually concise and even brief publication, this is a single overview of something I wrote almost a year ago: Faithfully translatin...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Death by Burning, c.100-300 AD
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2290
Re: Death by Burning, c.100-300 AD
The claim about Hilarius may be a distortion of Eunapius Where we have two passages: a/ The end of Eleusis during the invasion of Alaric Now when his studies with them were prospering, he heard that there was a higher wisdom in Greece, possessed by the hierophant of the goddesses,67 and hastened to...
- Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:28 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: ⲭⲥ & ⲭⲣⲥ: The Coptic Runes of Christ in the Gospel of Philip
- Replies: 31
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Re: ⲭⲥ & ⲭⲣⲥ: The Coptic Runes of Christ in the Gospel of Philip
But as far as the transcriptions go all that can be said is SBL. Where B = Biblical and there is only One Chrestos who suffers from iotacism. Iotacism doesn't apply because both words always existed simultaneously. And I'm not talking about Philip, I am talking about Greek as a language and likely ...