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1) prima facie, to be not more able to do sacrifice in Temple. A technical inability. Not really grave. 2) secunda facie, in the light of the great disasters that followed in 115-117 CE and in 135 CE : no longer be able to obey God. A contradiction raised in Judaism, with the risk of threatening its...

You are proposing a literalist reading, not exactly that meant in my title of thread.

I would propose an alternative mythicist scenario than that decisively more clear and at moment more plausible named for brevity ''Doherty-Carrier'' (I don't like seem dogmatic, therefore I excuse me in advance if not use the conditional in following, and I apologize for my bad English). The idea: t...

if we had have in the first Gospel the embarrassment of a Jesus seditious or however also only the desire to realize his kingdom on this earth , albeit invisibly, then Jesus would be possibly historical. But if Mcn was the oldest gospel, then the embarrassment, in later gospels, of a seditious Jesus...

Objectively, the Jesus of Mcn is the more pure and innocent entity that could ever have been conceived in the history of Humanity. In Nietzschean terms, behind any myth of innocence there is always a Will to Power, but the unique Will to Power that I am able to see in this case is only the radical c...

There was no John the Baptist narrative in the Gospel of Marcion but all our canonical gospels have it. About John the Baptist in Mcn, I signal this: http://sgwau2cbeginnings.blogspot.it/2015/03/john-baptist-from-marcionite-to.html the narrators of Luke, Marcion or Ur-Luke do not understand the sat...

I know another 'little one' and he was no named John, even if he was named Paraclete.

I think to understand where you would like come up. To the conclusion that the docetists were represented by Catholics as if they were dangerous criminals ''deniers'' of the one true God - Satanists - when in fact those docetists held views more accommodating and less radical, less anti-Semitic, ind...

Even assuming this your view, you cannot negate that in Mcn the enemy is clearly the god creator of Jews. And that ''man of war'', as you translates this suggestive Eesh, is a name too gravitating around anti-roman messianism, just like ''YHWH saves'', if not more than it. Personally, if I was a mar...

I think having this conversation with you gave me a clue as to the myth that is at the heart of the gospel. If 'Jesus' is really Eesh - the man of war - why does he come to earth to be crucified? How is this victory? I think the context is the mass crucifixion of Jews in the lead up to the end of t...