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If Plato's Demiurge was the perfect and good god, immaterial and beyond space and time But Plato's Demiurge, iiuc, wasn't Plato's perfect and good god. Plato's Τὸ Ἕν / 'To Hen’ ( aka The Monad / The One ) was. Plato's Demiurge was "a lesser divinity, one removed from the Most High". The t...

Philo was not happy with that. He followed the traditional Judean holy book Genesis, and felt that the God described there could have been nothing but all these principals in one. The God of the Jews had created matter as well as fashioned it, in addition to being the source of all intellectual con...

Sooner or later the demiurge leads us to Plato. AFAIK it was the heretical Gnostics who first adopted the term demiurge into Christian writings. The significance of all this for the origins of Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ as Logos, mediator, creator, etc scarcely needs to be pointed out. [h...

...a Jewish rebel crucified by Pilate in the place where now there is the Testimonium Flavianum ( docet Dave Allen ) may explain why the Gospel Jesus was dated under Pilate: one of the many historical figures on which the Gospel Jesus was based would be also that rebel punished by Pilate. The model...

The Christian apocalypticism of Hebrews, the idea that Jesus suffered only one time in the past, and in the recent past (and NOT in the remote past, pace Wells), is the true impulse that moved the Earliest Evangelist to write a story by "seeing" his invented Jesus in the actions of some J...

"The Synoptic Problem: Has It Been Solved? - Ted Plitcher". YouTube. History Valley. 12 February 2023.

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Then I expect the no-longer-extant autograph MS of Galatians to of touched on the coming END per first-god and the rescue mission of the redeemer second-god. No. I think the understanding of Mark I laid out in the OP is decisive. [...] Mark is not Gnostic or proto-Gnostic. Does that imply: Mark is ...

Mark is likely unique and original. The previous 'story' he most likely used was Paul's ie. Pauline epistles (& more of the LXX and accounts of the Roman-Jewish war/s) Mark redacts Marcion’s Gospel and gets rid of the antithesis of Christianity and Judaism, although he still shows and maintains...

Then I expect the no-longer-extant autograph MS of Galatians to of touched on the coming END per first-god and the rescue mission of the redeemer second-god. This would mean Paul is an apocalyptic thinker according to Martyn and de Boer contra: Dunne, J. (2015). Suffering and covenantal hope in Gala...