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There was already a "balance" in Christianity before Acts was written. Paul says the pillars (James, Peter and John) approved of his Gentile mission in Gal. 2:7-9: Acts was written by a later generation than Paul. There are echos of the fierce debates which Paul had with his opponents. Bu...

Man, this world we're living in is so much different from the one I was born into....

There is a very active facebook group dedicated to old greek cursive handwriing.....the theotokos is smiling on us.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/644593159775658/

Fellow questers for the historical (or hysterical) Carpocratians, it is striking to me how beautiful the reconstructed omicron is. It was drawn by my wife, who has no particular skills in calligraphy. I saw my wife while she was stroking it in---she just did one take, one circular swoosh, and out po...

Here's a question for Randy. If Acts is anti-Marcion, why would it suggest (according to your reading) that Simon Magus (the guy that anti-Marcionites say was the root of Marcionism) was a good guy? Brilliant!!!!! That's a great question. It puts real pressure on my position. Time to start waving m...

Ok, this is a head-to-head comparison: The gymnastic example vs a known iota. The known iota is the same one in the previous animation. 1. Initial screen overlays translucent versions of the letters which my wife inked, using the putative reconstructed paths asa guide. 2. Then there is a demo of how...

Ok, courtesy of my very patient wife......who has the mad art skills needed to produce this. She was able to simulate how a pen held at the scribe used would look when writing out the letters. This is a movie which illustrates why I think I can recover the paths that the scribe used to write the let...

John2 wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 6:24 pm

RandyHelzerman wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 5:20 pm

PS do you really believe Jesus is coming back?

No.

Then why do you say things like “when Jesus comes back he’s going to ….”

It’s really confusing.

And when Jesus comes to earth on the clouds of heaven (in the form of the "son of man"), he's going to render some serious God-level judgement on people, according to my understanding of the NT. That’s because the real NT is the Evangelion and 10 letters of Paul. The rest is anti-marcioni...

Well, there is certainly precedence for a holy man and God ignoring someone's plea for forgiveness (Jer. 37:3: "Please pray to the Lord our God for us!"), and for the reasons I've given, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to suppose that Josephus' Simon and Acts' Simon are the same pe...

If Marcion's "originality" depends on his connection with Simon (via Philip), from my point of view it looks like a bad connection, since both Peter and Josephus condemn him. If. If you assume that Simon's plea for forgiveness was just ignored by Peter, or by God. If. If you assume that S...