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Sinouhe wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 4:08 am I know that many here are supporters of the Marcionite priority and that this may give the impression that it is the only solution to the problem.
But not everyone is convinced by this hypothesis.

Agree fully! I'm not at all convinced by it.

Odd that the book, at least from a cursory read of the Table Of Contents, does not seem to mention Marcion.

What if "thieves and robbers" merely refers to the likes of Thudas and the Egyptian.

I.E., any/all Fourth Philosophy (like) Messianic contenders pre Jesus (or whatever his name was) were merely thieves and robbers. This fits with Josephus' name for them.

Thanks for sharing this billd89.

Would a Paul who penned "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.", and who assures us that he does not lie, be considered to believe in such an entities pre-existence? And if so, what lower pleromic status might ...

Do luminaries such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen ever mention the TF and use it thereby as historical proof of a living Christ Jesus?

Why present us with only these two choices as if they are the only potentially viable options? What if zero letters addressed to churches from the pen of someone actually named Paul ever "already existed" (meaning here as authentic letters to authentic churches), and all of them were inste...

Was Philo aware of a Jesus Christ movement?

Nice! Paul's seriously twisted logic that the promised "seed" was actually singular, and as such referred to Jesus, was yet another of the primary lessons Paul wanted people to learn. But Genesis 13:16 and 15:5 seem impossible to rectify with the non-plurality of the singular word "s...

Nice! Paul's seriously twisted logic that the promised "seed" was actually singular, and as such referred to Jesus, was yet another of the primary lessons Paul wanted people to learn. But Genesis 13:16 and 15:5 seem impossible to rectify with the twisted non-plurality of the word "see...