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by Leucius Charinus
Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:08 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Arguing Against the Church Fathers
Replies: 103
Views: 9304

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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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" ...
by Leucius Charinus
Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Carry your satyr in my way - said Dionysus
Replies: 35
Views: 5810

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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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
Views: 3230

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 ...