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Was Paul's method of execution based upon Roman Law? The following dissertation may provide some food for thought. PAUL IN ROME: A CASE STUDY ON THE FORMATION AND TRANSMISSION OF TRADITIONS Pablo Alberto Molina A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

According to Jermome Murphy O’Conner, that statement may’ve been regarding those influenced by Alexandrian philosophy in the Corinthian church. Namely, Philo of Alexandria's teaching regarding the dichotomy between earthly/spiritual bodies. Hence, an earthly Jesus wasn’t held in esteem by certain in...

Sure, the following reminded me of the OP . In Western logic, the laws governing the opposition of incompatible propositions are unquestioned. They are self-evident because the opposite is unthinkable. Two propositions that are contrary to each other cannot both be true though both can be false. The...

This made me think of Mortimer J Adler's book "TRUTH IN RELIGION;THE PLURALITY OF RELIGIONS AND THE UNITY OF TRUTH "
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Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:00 pm If the Testimonium Flavianum is partially genuine, then Jesus didn't exist

Conversely, if the Testimonium Flavianum is totally forged, then Jesus didn't exist either.

Thirty years after 44 CE is 74 CE. This is roughly the date of the Jewish War . However the TF occurs in the Antiquities written nearly twenty years later. It would be quite plausible for Josephus, writing in the early 90's, to be a little surprised that a group following a leader killed in the ear...

. . . Most modern scholars seem to think that the current Testamonium is a version reworked by Christian's out of an earlier, neutral one. The main reason for their skepticism is that they think that Josephus was not Christian. But some scholars like Whiston and Eisenman and others whom we have dis...

Also see comparison to Moses's transformation.

Although it’s a world religion, in a sense it is multiply cut off from its roots. While its key early figures used one language, its scriptures are translations of those early words. And although it was once very strong in the land of its birth, it subsequently became much more numerous in lands fa...

Gnostic thought made this connection but most likely at a later, rather than earlier date. The teacher Herakleon compares the Demiurge to John the Baptist. According to him in the account of John the Baptist in the Gospel of John, "everything must be understood in relation to that person who wa...