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Secret Alias wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:55 am We should sell stupid theories at this forum if there was a market for them. If there was a market for them we'd all be rich.

Lmao we can come up with so many.
"Was Paul of Tarsus a Muslim?"
"Was Jesus a woman?"
"Is Yahweh Irish?"

'he formerly spoke in parables' He is eventually portrayed as speaking in parables. Many of those parables are the same as or versions of the parables in the Gospel of Thomas. Crossan mentions this (quoted by Carrier), something like: parables by Jesus become parables about Jesus . If the earliest ...

Yes, Christianity is unique. But it didn't just arise in or out of Judaism. There were Graeco-Roman influences. And it's likely there was an element of ' Judaisation ' during it genesis The more I research the origins of Christianity, the clearer this era of Judaisation becomes. I try to keep it sh...

This is intended to be my last paper on it all: 3 years, over 2,000 pages written in 32 papers - and the puzzle is solved https://www.academia.edu/76105160/The_self_evident_emergence_of_Christianity Abstract: This article proposes a business case for the emergence of Christianity, and one that has ...

It's quite clear that Paul saw Christ as a divine being of some kind, and even if he thought there was a historical person associated with that divine being, it was extremely unimportant when compared to the divine aspect. Am I mistaken in seeing this as true for the Church Fathers as well? The non-...

Yes, Christianity is unique. But it didn't just arise in or out of Judaism. There were Graeco-Roman influences. And it's likely there was an element of ' Judaisation ' during it genesis The more I research the origins of Christianity, the clearer this era of Judaisation becomes. I try to keep it sh...

How about being: a. a text-based b. mystery religion c. based on another set of texts d. written in a foreign language. e. predicting the coming of a man f. who was supposed to die g. in order to save everyone h. so the dead can come back in the flesh i. after the final judgement of the world j. an...

How about being: a. a text-based b. mystery religion c. based on another set of texts d. written in a foreign language. e. predicting the coming of a man f. who was supposed to die g. in order to save everyone h. so the dead can come back in the flesh i. after the final judgement of the world j. an...

As I am trying to ignore the misery of my repetitious existence I just wanted to address something with those who say that because Christianity 'resembled' other contemporary mystery religions it was 'the same' as contemporary religious experiences. - my wife resembles other women I know, she is no...

This is intended to be my last paper on it all: 3 years, over 2,000 pages written in 32 papers - and the puzzle is solved https://www.academia.edu/76105160/The_self_evident_emergence_of_Christianity Abstract: This article proposes a business case for the emergence of Christianity, and one that has ...