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Jesus was crowned ( exaltation). Like Napoleon Bonaparte was ---and many other successful men and women exaltation formal the act of raising someone to a higher rank or more powerful position https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/exaltation Jesus was crowned? You mean Jesus was exalte...

You could not have looked at an actual " Marcionite recension". Come again? Tertullian preserves most of the Marcionite recension, which removes much of the travel logs and pastoral established church hierarchy. Various compilations have been made, but Jason BeDuhn's is currently the best...

The Marcionite recension does support a Marcionite understanding, however. Clearly you have not looked at them. You could not have looked at an actual " Marcionite recension". What's more, even knowing what Marcion believed is extremely difficult as our only extensive sources are from his...

Bolding mine, If one treats "occasional" letters as more reliable than a kind of a history book like Acts purports to be, then the details in the letters are to be preferred over details in Acts (where they are different, that is). Chances are then that Acts would be later, but may or may...

........Your attempts to discredit every aspect of Christianity is IMO no different than a Fundi Christian trying to justify every aspect of their religion. Both are extremes that offer nothing worthwhile to the general conversation and only serve to confuse the issues. What is the basis for your d...

It is not just that the so-called Paul did not meet Jesus but it must be noted that the writer did claim he was seen by Jesus after he resurrected and that he received information from Jesus after he was raised from the dead. The Pauline Jesus stories are not products of visions but products of fict...

The claim that the great majority of NT Scholars accept seven as authentic is of no value as historical evidence especially when most NT Scholars are Christians and many worship Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Christians want to go to heaven so cannot deny their Jesus. I disagree. While some Bibli...

The claim that the great majority of NT Scholars accept seven as authentic is of no value as historical evidence especially when most NT Scholars are Christians and many worship Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

Christians want to go to heaven so cannot deny their Jesus.

hekeem, Life's too short. I have zero interest in interacting with you any further. Whether or not life's too short the Christian Bible does state that their Jesus was born of a Holy Ghost and a Virgin, was God Creator, the Lord from heaven, the firstborn of all creatures, the firstborn of the dead...

Christians cannot deny the stories in their Bible or else they would be denied entrance into heaven.


Matthew 10:33
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.