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I've read somewhere that early gnostics held proto-mythical views in part in order to undermine the authority of the emerging proto-orthodox christian establishment. The latter group based their authority primarily upon alleged apostolic establishment founded by a historical Jesus. The former group ...

. . . What is the "historical core" of Bilbo Baggins and how does this compare to the "historical core" of the Biblical Jesus? Question : Whence the historical and political authority of the Bible codex and thus the ( non-peer reviewed ) HJ? Answer : The supreme [military] autho...

https://theconversation.com/weighing-up-the-evidence-for-the-historical-jesus-35319 Raphael Lataster Tutor in Religious Studies at University of Sydney Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily r...

Does Luke 1:1-3 indicate it was a compilation? Luke 1:1-3 1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; ...

. . . Origen is combatting the claims of Celsus' hypothetical Jew, whom was critical of Jesus being the Christ. If the TF contained negative comments about Jesus, then this would support Celsus. So either the TF was not there at all, or it contained negative comments about Christ. . . Jerome Murphy...

Jesus brings the sword in Matthew 10:34. And not peace. NETfree Matthew 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword . That is spoken figuratively. . . the following is spoken literally. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy ...

. . . We now have a complete disconnect with human culture of the Pleistocene, but these people, especially in India, over this very long period could well have retained memory of big slow cycles of the climate, embedding this story in the Yuga myth of a 24,000 year cyclic pattern of gold, silver, ...

. . Only a complete absence of understanding of Christian ethics and theology can produce this twisted Caesar idea. . . Even Acharya S doesn't buy this theory. Notably even Acharya S (D.M. Murdock) doesn’t buy Atwill’s thesis, declaring that she does “not concur with Atwill’s Josephus/Flavian thesi...

. . Only a complete absence of understanding of Christian ethics and theology can produce this twisted Caesar idea. . . Even Acharya S doesn't buy this theory. Notably even Acharya S (D.M. Murdock) doesn’t buy Atwill’s thesis, declaring that she does “not concur with Atwill’s Josephus/Flavian thesi...

Except it was the wax image of Caesar that was nailed on a tropaeum . Correct. Here is what the Koran says… http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/4/index.htm#157 4:157 And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but...