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Yes but the more likely candidate for the corruptions is Eusebius who also accused of correcting Origen and other Alexandrian writers. The problem with you guys is that you get these pieces of evidence - i.e. that the writings were corrupted - but then you go to town and make some ridiculous inferen...

The real problem is the insular nature of the Christian community. You know, the question raised here was whether or not the lack of first century witnesses to Jesus should be seen as assisting the argument that Jesus never existed. I don't see how this holds true. It might make it difficult for us...

Jay,

70 - 49 = 21 CE. Yes, exactly that was the original year of the Passion.

Stephan

I think the same thing happened in Origen's Against Celsus. People think that Against Celsus goes section by section through the True Account but it doesn't really. You can see that every once and a while there are bits and pieces in the wrong order. Origen says that he wrote the text and then it wa...

Did you know that the Satyricon was my favorite movie from when I was like 18. My point was that the only thing that makes life interesting for most people is the barrier that is placed between them and what they want. If you can get what you want. Life is pointless.

I wonder if anyone has investigated the twine illustrated in the photograph. It looks of "recent" vintage, i.e. past few decades. Ha, ha, ha. The conspiracy theorists will of course argue that the evidence was 'planted' there to 'prove' the existence of the heresies. For what reason none ...

Yes I appreciate the time you took to write that rather enlightened response to my five minute comment. You raised a number of points which would take me a great deal of time to write an adequate response. As such, I will go back to my original point and try to answer the general sense of what your ...

Here is what the Mimar Marqa has to say : Let us magnify our Lord and be humble before His greatness and believe in Him and Moses His prophet, Who used the phrase The Rock and conjoined it with the word Perfect (in Deut. xxxii. 4). From the Form and the mind was the body perfected and set up (in a m...

What's the difference between the situation related to the Marcionites and that of the Perushim, Tzedukim, Hasidim, Gavlanim, Apikorsim, Issiyi, and Baytosim and other sects mentioned in rabbinic literature? We have Jewish writings with the DSS which is associated with perhaps some of these groups. ...

I don't know if it is a sign - and Christianity isn't a monolithic concept in every place - but my sense is, like the healthcare debate in the US (i.e. the universal consensus that the Democratic party now owns the 'health care issue'), as society becomes inevitably secular that atheism will be on t...