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Simon aligns well with what is known about ben Stada. But kinking them together has disastrous consequences for how we understand Christianity as ben Stada was active around 80-120 ad. Of course I'm in favour with this time frame, but you can imagine that many people would have a problem with it! I...

Yep, well this is probably the Clement supposed to have taken over as leader in, what was it, about 78AD?
who is Grapte? The female leader of the church
The Shepherd reveals the concept of a 'female leader' did once exist, which very rapidly was 'forgotten'

That's a more measured approach from Roger there
The idea Simon = Paul is only superficially appealing but i think it falls apart
Way too many differences!

i'm kind of sold on the 29AD date for one of the pivotal events, the passing of John which ties in with a 90% solar eclipse that year, the only total one anywhere near the region for decades either way. I kind of see the deaths of at least 3 individuals in the gospel accounts getting merged, The Sam...

Pauls "14 year holiday" where he did nothing stands out, some might call in a "bs" smell test on that! let's see what would that achieve? it would date the crucifixion back 14 years from his letters, without it not 33ad but 48ad, which is a timeframe where certain folk were known...

Guiseppe how do you explain this.. Jesus taught eternal life, right? So how can he die? It's obvious he didn't 'die' because while his body is on the cross he's off doing other stuff, like rendering sheol or appearing to people (gnostic version) So one thing that baffles me is why scripture say he d...

for you Irish, the Mother of pink floyd has an inkling of this.. love



(Guiseppe this is an official demiurge free zone, if you say anything about the demiurge she'll rip your balls off)

Giuseppe I hope you take my posts with some humour, I'm pretty nuts The answer is simple. Mark believed really that the deity Jesus worked on earth exclusively via Paul. He was obliged to paulinize his Jesus if he wanted to invent an earthly Jesus at table. But.. this is quite interesting. I find th...

How would John the Baptist being the same as John of Zebedee resolve Origen writing as if James is the son, instead of the brother, of John? I may be missing something Does Origen clearly say which John James is the son of? I may be missing something here! But if 'of John' originally referred to hi...

No, this is Paul yanking your chain. He is just a guy wearing a Jesus costume just like the Easter Bunny is a man in a suit. He ain't Jesus Why on earth would Gnostics get a hard-on for him? No compatibility. Why all this Judaizer talk? Of course they existed - everyone knows that, so what does that...