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hakeem, Stauros still means stake. One piece of wood. Of course it is forgery to translate it with cross. How many times is Josephus translated? Time enough to change the terms to cross and crucify. Like I said to Bernard: maybe there was written stake, but they said cross because they liked that b...

I see most all of this as emanating out of Ephesus, Paul's base of operations, and likely were Paul's letter collection was started, where the Gospel of Mark was written, Marcion's Gospel was written, and the Gospel of John was written. Nearby is where Revelation was written. I don't see how the so...

If Acts is not a total forgery by itself, the appearance of the gospel writers there, must mean that the gospels were written before 70. If they are not, the Acts is a total forgery... You mean Acts of the Apostles is total fiction. The writing is anonymous so cannot be regarded as a forgery. Thank...

Marcion could not be the origin of ChrEstianity. Even If we reject the claim by supposed Christian writers that their version of the Gospel was first there would still be many, many ChrEstian cults which predate Marcion. Hippolytus claimed that the teachings of Marcion were in fact derived from Empo...

Hakeem: a stauros can only be translated with stake. If a translater or a forger makes cross of it, it is a forgery. Actually, as the books of Josephus were used by the gospel writers to take things out, they were equally used to put things in. It worked two ways. Josephus was dead anyway, so who c...

... All NT stories of Jesus the crucified Christ were fabricated after the destruction of the Temple and the fall of Jerusalem or at least after c 70 CE. Yes, that's the NT story. The issue is not the story. The issue is how one reads the story. Read it literally ie as factual... Then put blood lib...

I find this whole argument over an earthly, fleshly crucifixion and a heavenly, 'outer space' crucifixion to miss the point. The point being that the NT has two crucifixion stories. The gospel crucifixion story is placed on terra-firma and the Pauline crucifixion story is based in heaven, in 'outer...

to hakeem, if Justin knew of Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles he would have identified them by name as his sources The gospels were not attributed authors in the time of Justin. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles/ : Th...

I know and agree with all that you write!!! Then who is this Jesus Christ/anointed Josephus is so-called writing about? It must be a king, or a high-priest, or a (never arriving) messiah. But Josephus is then not telling about him, although a Christ is very important. Therefore I said that Josephus...

There are over a hundred Epistles and all of them contain almost nothing about the life of NT Jesus. What does the Epistle of James contain about the life of NT Jesus? Nothing. What does 1 and 2 Peter contain about the life of NT Jesus? Nothing. What does 1,2and 3 John contain about the life of NT ...