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If the analogy with Medjugorje may be useful, then the celestial Jesus was active both in heaven and on earth, according to the different content of the various Christian hallucinations. Only when the apostle x hallucinated himself in the Third Heaven, he saw also Jesus in Heaven, obviously. We hav...

Assuming that Paul's 7 epistles at least were written by him, it seems to me that one alternative that doesn't get much play - maybe it isn't sexy - but that I would argue may be the MOST logical conclusion of all is that Paul's Jesus was a construct from the OT and perhaps other more recent apocaly...

No Christian writer on record had his hands on Gospels before Justin. They are not found in the public record. There is no evidence there were available to anyone. I call that not published. Hi, I don't know what your point is about publishing if you agree that various gospels were known among Chri...

Kapyong, which of the writings after the gospels were written but before Justin might one reasonably expect to have mentioned one or more of the gospels had they been known to the authors of those writings, and why or where would you expect them to be mentioned? Sometimes what looks like a powerful ...

Hi Ben, I know Justin doesn't say he is using a harmony, he does refer to the 'memoirs of the Apostles' as opposed to the 'memoir of the Apostle', if I recall correctly. This implies that he knew he was referencing more than one memoir and more than one Apostle had written about Jesus (unless one th...

Hi Kapyong, What do you mean by published? The writers of Luke and Matthew knew of GMark, and some say so did GJohn. There may have been other gospels written -we know of quite a few later at least, and GLuke mentioned the 'many' before it, but not mentioned either by those various books. Some of th...

Third, the whole point of the added material is to make it seem as if Jesus might be God in some way, yet at the end of the pericope, after the addition, everyone is amazed and glorifies God: confusingly, if the material in red is present, since whom are they glorifying? God? Jesus as God? Both?? I...

But you can tell that these people have read very little. This slavish devotion to Josephus 'as if' this is the limit of things that happened in antiquity. It's ridiculous. When the ancients talk about Justus and his lost Chronicle the general point is that it was nothing like Josephus. So again th...

3 out of 19, so it is not probable that a description of messiah claimant of these times would be nameless. This INCREASES the odds that the two unnamed messianic claimants in the story including the Mount of Olives are one and the same. TedM wrote: If it was 50% unnamed, 50% named then its a coin f...

To TedM: Is it that both "the Egyptian" and the messianic character (Jesus) in the Slavonic TF are unnamed? And therefore share yet another similarity? Yes, that is exactly it. It has to do with probability. If being 'unnamed' is unusual, then I see having both an unnamed 'wonder-doer' an...