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Perhaps because the "Spirit"/"Son of Man" (who entered as a Dove) departed from Jesus while he was upon the cross. And perhaps also (as I have speculated) the narratives of the Gospels have been inverted, moving the resurrection (of the bodily Jesus who remained behind, having be...

I read somewhere that roughly 95% of Greek manuscripts read this verse along the lines of: John 3:13: No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven . If this is so, then why do many modern translations omit the section which I've highlighted? Mi...

The harmonization of those of John with those of Jesus seems to ring forth with an air of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Thus both for and against.

I'm in the camp which tends to think that the resurrected whomever (Jesus?) that survived the cross after Josephus intervened was the root source from which later miraculous resurrection stories arose. But one nagging drawback is that this requires a roughly 40 year time shift.

mlinssen wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 1:02 am So in essence none of these people have any degree in History whatsoever - save for rare exceptions perhaps?
Is it even legal to call them(selves) historians?

Your rather cult-like bias is still showing.

Does it seem logical to be OK with the idea of males being united with the Christ within confines of the bridal chamber, while the same are typically not OK with the inferences found within 'Secret Mark'.

An interesting one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dominic_Crossan John Dominic Crossan (born 17 February 1934) is an Irish-American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity , former Catholic priest who was a prominent member of the Jesus Seminar, and emeritus professor at DePaul...

To get this rolling, I find "Let the dead bury their dead" to be rather Gnostic.

The typical Christian would have been nominally unlearned and illiterate. Without manipulative guidance (with an attached agenda), nothing within the NT was conceptually at their level. This NT stuff was a game played by elitist philosophical schools and their members.