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Unfortunately it is very difficult to prove much about the earliest roots of the cult. But here is what I suspect: The symbolism preceded the name. The name is a product of numerology. This is the reason that the nomina sacra are letters written like numbers, with a line over them. I also concur tha...

How easy would it be to attempt a reconstruction of Mark according to your theory? To show how Judas could have been inserted to replace James? Are you working on a potential reconstruction? If so, I'd very much love to read it. This theory is extremely intriguing. Well... I'm currently working on ...

Mark 3 Matthew 10 Luke 6 Acts 1 John 1 Simon / Peter Simon / Peter .. (Andrew's brother) Simon / Peter .. (Andrew's brother) Peter Andrew [ (Simon Peter's brother) 2 'J ames ' Zebedee Andrew .. (Simon's brother) Andrew (Simon's brother) John Simon of John ... -> Cephas/ Peter 3 John Zebedee ' James...

John 1 has the longish introduction (prologue(?)) about the Logos (somewhat diminished in English as 'the Word') culminating in 1:14a, "14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us ..," 1:15a, "John testified concerning him ..," and 1:17b, "grace and truth came t...

I'm very confident now that indeed James was the original betrayer, Judas was converted to the betrayer by modifying the descriptor on the last name on Mark's list, that James was also the original betrayer in the Gospel of John and that the name of James was converted directly to Judas in John, alo...

Makes sense.

Also looking for the Magdeburg Centuries in English or at least the essay by Ulrich Velenus or commentaries on them. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Centuries https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/magdeburg-centuries-ecclesiastica-historia-in-english.85650/ Can anyone at least locate the...

Thanks MrMacSon, very helpful.

Doe anyone know of an English version of the Spanish work mentioned above: J. L. Orella y Unzué, Respuestas católicas a las Centurias de Magdeburgo (1559-1588), 1976

The issue is this: We know that the name Peter/Cephas appears in the Pauline letters. The earliest witness to the Pauline letters is Marcion. In the Pauline letters Peter is portrayed as a rival of Paul's, whom Paul rebukes. We know that Marcion did not view Peter as the leader of anything, nor did ...

Except for the possibly irrelevant and possibly misleading phrase above, "unless you belong to the modern scientific mindset" (what is that? who is one of those?), and despite a medieval polemic, yes, rock seems to have been, in this case, at some time, by some, at least, intended to indi...