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It would make more sense if Paul had to go to Jerusalem multiple times to get everybody on board with his gospel. But it would emphasize the split between Petrine and Pauline christianity, and certainly the more times he had to go there to hound everybody into going in the same direction. the less ...

Does anyone really believe the prophets had "holy spirit"? Even the Samaritans didn't. The way I read Origin here is that its *the reader* who is lacking Holy Spirit, which I would gloss as they don't have the right hermeneutical mindset. How to interpret the stories about, say, genocide ...

Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:15 pm Those are some interesting arguments. I should return to this at some point.

Once we all stop talking about naked men, please do Very much interested in your thoughts.

For convenience of reference, here is the same treatment given to the collection of sigmas and iotas which PeterKirby kindly collected for us, in post https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=169090#p169090 Here I will comment a bit: In general, the iota's appear to be written with one stroke...

Here is the entire 3rd page in the same two transforms, if anybody wants to cf with other instances of the letters. I can do all 3 pages if anybody is interested.

andrewcriddle wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:28 am Galilee is roughly the area supposedly occupied by Zebulun and Naphtali in the OT.

Andrew Criddle

I stand for corrected!! Thanks for the clarification.

No you can't. *chuckle* I figured. But I value your opinion highly and would be interested in a critique of the other points as well. I think you may be confusing Origen and Augustine. Yeah, Origin also thought that too. Astoundingly. We are dealing with a general tendency by Marcion not a rigid ru...

I experimented around with some image processing/edge detection/contour detection algorithms. Results posted here w/o comment. I've selected 3 examples which Ken highlighted, an unambiguous final sigma, his defeaser example, our favorite gymnastic example, and finally another letter I believe to be ...

maryhelena wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:52 pm I asked Edge Copilot

God help us. Preferably the good God, not the just God.

He became a Christian, by interacting with Christians. As this was the first generation of Christians, they *all* became christians by interacting with Christians! By the same place I mean "the Land of Israel." When you say "the Land of Israel" I wonder if you are having a simil...