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Yeah, I mean... ugg, come on. It's always the same old crap. Tim and PZ Meyers must be best buds. They both try to sound soo "rational", and then go about completely distorting the issue in order to to so come off as "serious minded moderates". But of course they completely fail...

I'd be looking for some explicit acknowledgment from O'Neill (or whomever) that the contrary opinion is rationally tenable before declaring victory. Also that a range of opinions exist. I prefer using a color coded taxonomy of viewpoints: Screenshot 2023-03-02 at 12-33-31 Critics of the historicity...

• Decade vs Century

This article concerns the period 59 BC – 50 BC.

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"50s BC". Wikipedia.

The 6th century BC started the first day of 600 BC and ended the last day of 501 BC.

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"6th century BC". Wikipedia.

[W]ith respect to the "god" of Platonism. Specifically Platonism_2.0 N.B. : The original thought of Plato (Platonism_1.0), in the first century CE is revised as Platonism_2.0! And also given the label of "Middle Platonism". The following overly simplistic video does not distingu...

Philo imparts a mother status to second-god, Sophia. Philo seems to impart a mediator status to third-god. The principle by which First-god created the world. [T]o see the logos as the ultimate expression of the absolute is for Philo an absolute impiety. In fact, the logos is only God’s shadow, His...

We still have to encounter the first Jesus or Christ spelled out in full in a Greek MS - I've come to 7th CE and not seen anything... [...] But would this be basic knowledge for scholars? Those with a Divinity degree, Theology degree, perhaps a certain chair? Is this basic knowledge for biblical ac...

[W]ith respect to the "god" of Platonism. Specifically Platonism_2.0 N.B. the original thought of Plato (Platonism_1.0), in the first century CE is revised as Platonism_2.0! Also given the (IMO) not very good label of "Middle Platonism". An excellent primer/refresher: Video lect...

[W]ho created the world? Was it a Creator-as-Demiurge (in which case the fleshly world was not good) or was it a Creator-as-God? And if the world was not the creation of a good God, what did that mean for believers of that evil world in terms of adhering to the laws set by that Creator Demiurge? Th...

Perhaps second-god is Wisdom and third-god is Logos per Philo, who appears to claim that intellect with no wisdom results in "Negative Demiurgy". As for the “Hellenized” Philo, Boyarin points out that he writes of the Logos “as if it were a commonplace”, demonstrating that at least in som...

My translation: ( De Fuga Et Inventione , 20:108-109) 110. Moreover, because His Head has been anointed with oil , and by this I mean that His ruling faculty is enclosed by the sovereign Light*, so He is deemed worthy to “put on the garments”: for the Logos is the eldest of that Being clothed with ...