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[W]hat does that mysterious ΧΣ stand for, χριστός or χρηστός? The first word means 'anointed' in Greek, the second means 'good', and it is widely assumed that Jesus Christ is the 'Anointed One' - yet even that phrase does not appear anywhere in the New Testament. John 1:41 and 4:25 both specificall...

So if I'm understanding you correctly, you think before there was any idea of a Jesus on earth, there was first a Middle Platonic like intermediary power that at some point was said to incarnate as Jesus on earth? If so, there does seem to be evidence of early Christians linking Jesus with other fi...

I have shown that mediating deities were common throughout ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman culture. Humans needed some type of mediator and model to show them how to connect with god/s or the divine. It's no surprise that Jesus became a preexistent being associated with Wisdom and the Logos or...

We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology (Walter de Gruyter, 2012), M. David Litwa: Paul does preach his own “technology of the self” enabling self-transcendence. In his version, however, the divine is not naturally within , but comes from outside and begins to control the passio...

Now on the Platonic logos/demiurge: We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology (Walter de Gruyter, 2012), M. David Litwa: Perhaps the most famous image of the tripartite soul functioning in a dualistic way is the image of the charioteer. In brief, the “spirited” and “desiring part”...

I have shown that mediating deities were common throughout ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman culture. Humans needed some type of mediator and model to show them how to connect with god/s or the divine. It's no surprise that Jesus became a preexistent being associated with Wisdom and the Logos or...

Petronius actually existed as a historical figure. The narrative regarding Petronius in the novel Quo Vadis is the author's invention. And likewise Abraham Lincoln of Indiana (born and mangered in Kentucky) actually existed as a historical figure. The narrative regarding "Abraham Lincoln: Vamp...

Jesus Christ seems to be a historical person about whom his future followers learned several dozen years after the fact, not from . . . oral tradition but from readers of the writings of a certain historian. And then later created a fictional historical narrative for said "a historical person&...

JarekS wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:41 am Early Christians . . . separated God from the Jews...

Who were the first christ devotees and did they honor a power/son/redeemer of the ONE?

Hebrews pre-70 / priority of John could be an interesting alternative in that scenario. And in the Hebrews pre-70 / priority of John scenario it is possible for true-Paul to proclaim his Lord IS XS the 50s B.C. Carrier does not dismiss a 50s B.C. Paul as plausible, but plumps for 50s A.D. Paul havi...