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archibald

Ok MrMacslippery, what about this bit:

archibald wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:41 pm...do you prefer to attribute all those to a non-earthly entity?

Basically, do you prefer, or not prefer, the non-earthly Jesus explanation?

archibald

Also, could you go back to this, it's more on topic: But the point is how Paul portrayed him. Indeed. As a man, born a Jew, born of a woman, from Zion, descended from David, in the flesh, preached, ate bread, was killed, by Jews, hung on a tree, was buried, rose again, supposedly fulfilling propheci...

archibald

No, I'm thinking Christian church fathers would be part of Christian communities, and would have written about their communities. Clement (apparently) wrote to another community. Point is, that would appear to be evidence for that other community, which is what you were seeking. No, evidence for an...

archibald

No, I'm thinking Christian church fathers would be part of Christian communities, and would have written about their communities. Why? Do you write letters to your own family that live with you? Clement (apparently) wrote to another community. Point is, that would appear to be evidence for that oth...

archibald

I only used Clement as one example. I am not here to spoon feed you at every turn. What is your alternative version of The Spread of Christianity? I think you need to cough up what exactly you're getting at here. I am not the only one who has read your posts as suggesting you doubt if Christianity h...

archibald

You lost me.

archibald

Is there any indication where that Pauline/Hellenistic Christianity thrived? Is that a serious question? Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Syria, Greece, Turkey......the sorts of places the early church fathers came from or wrote from. Yes, we have accounts about where the early church fathers came from o...

archibald

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:11 pm MrMacSon and Jax, is the proposition on the table simply that Christianity started as a Greek/Hellenistic sect, with little to no Jewish/Semitic influence at all, and only later spread to Jewish/Semitic people groups?

Seems like it.

archibald

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:55 amif there was a group that emerged out of Judaism one would think it would first be a branch of Judaism: a Jewish sect.

But I'm not convinced that happened....{discussion on lack of evidence}..

archibald

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:12 pm Is there any indication where that Pauline/Hellenistic Christianity thrived?

Is that a serious question?

Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Syria, Greece, Turkey......the sorts of places the early church fathers came from or wrote from.

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