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i defer, i'd like to see someone with more expertise on the Marcionites comment here. not really my area i just can't get the enthusiasm going to trawl through all those patristic accounts and get 'good' at it

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so you want a time machine, tried Amazon? I mean, you could theorise a Marcionite type group would invariably prefer 'the good' Jesus if it's true they had that as the main attribute for their Father, then if you added to that the theory Luke derives from *ev you'd get a progression. I don't know, i...

The spellings offered are minor. A proposal, based largely on false dating of Coptic Thomas impossibly early--that is, before Coptic is ever attested--leave the question whether there is evidence at all of two separate and uni-directional-sequenced and both "misunderstood" sequential reli...

this is worth looking at for sure

https://malankaralibrary.com/ImageUploa ... ca3194.pdf

that's the thing, Magdalene doesn't need anything from the risen Jesus. No-one who actually knew him and had been taught by him would have done Any 'risen Jesus' accounts are from people that didn't know him and surprise, surprise the risen Jesus says exactly what they say is true. what a co-inciden...

Maybe, I notice the writings of Ephrem are very different in character from the 'western' church. they got their own traditions
the epistles need re-dating and seen as pseudographical theological works. Linssen's work proves they post-date the gospels

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OUCH, iclapshaw you might have a hidden talent to write Ben Stiller scripts!

if it wasn't found elsewhere the MG would look like Megiddo was being bound into the sacra nomina. that would 'cement' it nicely
or Mg stands for Magdalene, considering the Lady of Mary Mosaic

The epistles do capture something of the earlier movement once the theologian's innovations are stripped away, I assume it was about bringing divinity into the mud-world. That's basically what Jesus does in the gospels? I'm not so sure that the Faulines are about "about bringing divinity into ...

Giuseppe may I ask a question you seem very intent on seeing the difference between YHWH and the Samaritan God or another God so this fits a scenario where one is opposed and another one promoted i think this is clear yet there is a second kind of scenario where it is the attributes and character/na...