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Would be pretty awesome if all the Acharya S.tuff could be contained to just one thread. The Institute for Cultural Research http://www.i-c-r.org.uk/publications/monographarchive.php List of Monographs Monographs 38 and 39 are interesting as short summaries of the similarity between pagan mystery c...

Frend is not an authority on Mithras Mr.Pearse, would you kindly update this entry? "Roger Pearse Roger Pearse is an interested amateur. He is involved in getting patristic texts online and in English, and in promoting interest in them. This includes oriental texts in Syriac, Coptic, Arabic an...

One of the problems with studying Mithras is that people write tosh about the subject. By "tosh" I mean "things which no ancient source records". Not infrequently these are based, not on ancient evidence, but instead on the statements of the founder of modern Mithraic studies, t...

W.H.C . Frend : The rise of Christianity Paperback: 1022 pages Publisher: Fortress Press (April 1, 1986) Language: English ISBN-10: 0800619315 ISBN-13: 978-0800619312 Page276-279 Mithraism “The Persian cult dramatized the eternal battle between good and evil and combined mystery and awesome ceremoni...

Why is all this so important to you?. You are not only disagreeing – which is healthy and legitimate- but attacking the author with undesirable passion The Romans Catholic Church has invented the original sin, the Trinity and so forth, and it has for centuries burned ‘heretics’ to impose its lies on...

Pipe down Torquemada She might or might not sue, but she will not sentence you to be burned at the stake. Have you not read that Bible scholarship is a “wankfest”. Re: The Myth cist Position by Peter Kirby » Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:56 am "Biblical scholarship is a wankfest in the first place. Nobody...

He is saying that mythicists teach the New Testament as a rabbi would teach cooking pork chops.
It is a very perceptive observation and very appropriate

In the words A Kempis Thomas, I submit the following on this thread: If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God? Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, save to love God, and Him only to serve. That is the ...

Which Church? The church founded by Christ

Such scholars might argue so: Resonances with the LXX are a problem only under question-begging assumptions. Mark is older than the Mishnah, Talmud, etc., so we cannot use those as evidence for custom or law in first-century Palestine. Therefore we cannot say that Mark errs in these respects. Mark'...