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- Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:16 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: A strong argument pro authenticity of the Pauline epistles
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2998
Re: A strong argument pro authenticity of the Pauline epistles
The Catholic redactor does not make that argument, but redactorial fatigue shows that this had been the original assumption of Pseudo-Paul.
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:05 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was there a lost ending of Mark?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10984
Re: Was there a lost ending of Mark?
Docetism predated Christianity.
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 1:40 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Richard Carrier would reach a Pure Agnostic Position, if only Paul was a forgery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 588
Re: Richard Carrier would reach a Pure Agnostic Position, if only Paul was a forgery
That's Carrier's problem but no problerm for mythicism.
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 1:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why Richard Carrier is 100% right about the extreme diffusion of euhemerization: the curious case of Epiphanes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1270
Re: Why Richard Carrier is 100% right about the extreme diffusion of euhemerization: the curious case of Epiphanes
GRS Mead described already in Fragments of a Faith Forgotten that Epiphanes is an Euhemerization of the reapperaring moon.
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:22 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Paul the Loser and his Yahweh
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6894
Re: Paul the Loser and his Yahweh
Paul shows traces of editorial fatigue of anti-marcionite redaction, as demonstrated by Hermann Detering in Der Gefaelschte Paulus.
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:06 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "Matthew set in order the logia": the Earliest Gospel?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2468
Re: "Matthew set in order the logia": the Earliest Gospel?
The Catholic doctrine is only hypocritically defending the demiurge while at the same time not interested in keeping YHWH's laws. Rather, they just attempt to sell their activity in the department of stretching and bending law as a proper understanding of the prophesies of the Old Testament. The nam...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 5:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Paul the Loser and his Yahweh
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6894
Re: Paul the Loser and his Yahweh
Paul is late patristic dogmatic piecemeal fiction and only believed genuine by uncritical scholars and apologists.
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 5:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The primacy of Mark vs Marcion
- Replies: 80
- Views: 17190
Re: The primacy of Mark vs Marcion
No, accretion works blatantly against Markan priority, as there are many Markan additions to pericopes known by Luke or Mattthew.
- Sun Mar 20, 2022 8:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: "Matthew set in order the logia": the Earliest Gospel?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2468
Re: "Matthew set in order the logia": the Earliest Gospel?
Baptism derves from the hermetic doctrine of the baptism in the crater, a metaphorical description of the acquisition of the nous, and "John" euhemerizes the herald (keryx) of the baptism, sent by the Father. As a sacrament, it effects the conversion (metanoia) from worship of the rulers o...
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:36 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Authenticity of Philemon
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4404
Re: Authenticity of Philemon
The consensus is absurdly false, as almost everything in NT scholarship. Of course, Philemon is nowhere near original but corrupted piecemeal like all epistles.
Only Stuart G. Waugh has hitherto been able to appraise Philemon in a non-hypocritical and non-superstitious manner.
Only Stuart G. Waugh has hitherto been able to appraise Philemon in a non-hypocritical and non-superstitious manner.