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Interesting that some would think that way when Paul and Marcion weren't even born until after Jesus was long dead and gone.

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billd89 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:30 am Coincidentally, I just mentioned that.

Indeed you did! I was so far behind that I thought I was in the lead. (think oval track racing...)

Philo's understanding of the logos lends itself to a proposal that he was (likely unwittingly) the founder of Christianity. Quoting Wikipedia: Philo (c. 20 BC – c. 50 AD), a Hellenized Jew, used the term logos to mean an intermediary divine being or demiurge.[10] Philo followed the Platonic distinct...

This is why I don't like Richard Carrier: Litwa literally doesn’t know anything he is talking about. "Literally." How can an expert "literally" not know anything about what he is talking about. The word "literally" literally makes the sentence incomprehensible. Typical...

Jhn 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph . ... 49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God ; thou art the King of Israel. Would not all kings of ...

John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And immediately they left their nets and followe...

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:05 am (Is the mind the devil (?))

You may be on to something here.

Was there a Devil as such extant within early Hebrew religious practice, or did this evil "lord of this world" sort of Devil conception evolve only much later? It seems that the earliest 'Satan' was merely a 'son of god' with a god given occupational task to perform (I.E., a job), just as ...

The Gospel Of Mark reads as if it was an abbreviated Matthew or Luke. Perhaps that's where the reference to being "short-measured" comes from.