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So John The Baptist is perfectly interchangeable with a building/fortress complex.

For this position to exhibit coherence, Mark must be Marcion. As your opening paragraph grants the founding of Christianity to Mark, while your closing paragraph grants the same to Marcion.

The burden of proof lies with the beholder.

No, they have not misread Paul as they have forged and faked him deliberately from thin air. Indeed! The words 'Jesus' and/or 'Jesus Christ' (or 'Christ Jesus') appear to have been forced into all of these passages, with some padding in the form of 'cover ones tracks' insertional lead in cutting fo...

This statement "Then tribulation or persecution having arisen on account of the word, immediately they fall away." as found within the answer to the parable presents a clear indication that the Gospel attributed to Mark definitively dates later in composition than that which is commonly ac...

Secret Alias (Stephan Huller) was saying this as far back as 2008.

http://therealmessiahbook.blogspot.com/ ... giora.html

I don't know if this holds true for gods, but as the saying goes, if you've seen one invisible man, you've seen them all.

Original Manuscript?

If Epiphanius quoted from non-canonical texts, wouldn't that imply that to him they were every bit as authentic and efficacious as actual Canonical texts?

Epiphanius was a biased and prejudiced person. However, as far as we can tell he quotes accurately from the written texts available to him. Andrew Criddle If true, this would be a clear indicator that the so called 'Canonical' texts are perversions of earlier strata texts, would it not? I don't see...