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According to the church's own history (and this has always been the understanding) the Gospels were oral traditions that were written down in the era of Papias, which was obviously after the death of Paul. So Paul knew an oral tradition not a written Gospel, just like everyone else in the early chur...

Ulan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:23 am I find it always funny how little many Christians know about the OT.

I always find it funny how little atheists know about the religions they criticize.

There is nothing in any of these quotes that show knowledge of a historical Jesus or of any Gospel traditions. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is from Leviticus 19:18. Paul didn't write the Pastoral Epistles. For from the Lord I received what I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus,...

"Wells and others have insisted that it is just inexplicable, on the usual understanding of a historical Jesus, why the epistles never quote him." The Christ myth theory by Robert Price, p.35 What is truly inexplicable is how people who call themselves scholars never bothered to read the s...

The interesting point here is that by the time the author of the Panarion came into contact with them the Marcionites had a three principle doctrine. The later Iranian marcionites then replaced the Demiurge with Hyle as a neutral principle. The Armenian Marcionite myth retold by Eznik has the Ultim...

Do you have a thesis which you want to illustrate with these excerpts, Thomas R? The evidence is presented to falsify R G price's theory: It would seem to me that Marcion or any of the Gnostics would have had nothing to do with Satan, that Satan or the devil wouldn't have been mentioned in Marcion'...

The Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev on the role of Christianity in the Russian revolution: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.164050/page/n197/mode/2up https://ia801604.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/34/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.164050/2015.164050.The-Origin-Of-Rus...

The Modern era already has a religion: Consumerism.



The New Age Oprah religion is the mystical/esoteric form of Consumerism.

The interesting point here is that by the time the author of the Panarion came into contact with them the Marcionites had a three principle doctrine. The later Iranian marcionites then replaced the Demiurge with Hyle as a neutral principle. The Armenian Marcionite myth retold by Eznik has the Ultima...

Acts of Andrew https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/actsandrew.html 18 At this time, one who opposed him went to the proconsul Virinus and said: 'A man is arisen in Thessalonica who says the temples should be destroyed and ceremonies done away, and all the ancient law abolished, and one God ...