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Note also a strange irony: the centurion is an (allegory of an) archon. And it is said that the Gnostic Christ laughed about the archons who crucified another person different from Christ. So there is the suspicion that there is at work also a reversal of the roles: the not-crucified Christ laughs a...

Wherefore he did not himself suffer death, but Simon, a certain man of Cyrene, being compelled, bore the cross in his stead; so that this latter being transfigured by him, that he might be thought to be Jesus, was crucified, through ignorance and error, while Jesus himself received the form of Simo...

I disagree strongly, as usual with a modern judaizer of Marcion (feature by you shared with Secret Alias). '' No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man'' means that Elijah and Moses are not ascended into heaven, before Jesus. Only Paul ascended to heaven. Af...

What is this evidence? Well clearly, for instance, Irenaeus reports that an unnamed group read the gospel of Mark as if Christ escaped and Jesus was crucified. How can that square with the Son of God escaping crucifixion and someone named Jesus dying on the Cross. Clearly all the evidence available...

And if I may chime in. As long as you stay on this macrocosmic level with broad sweeping statement it's easy to brim with over confidence. Jesus was a woman, Jesus was a Jew, Jesus was a god, Jesus was gay, Jesus didn't exist, Jesus never died - it's all safe at 30,000 feet above the actual evidenc...

In the Gospel of Nicodemus Satan doesn't know the real identity of Jesus. In GMark Satan seems to know who is Jesus but the problem is that the same info may be interpreted as: 1) a Gnostic way to say that even the demons didn't recognize Jesus as the Son of an unknown Father (not the god of the Jew...

So, if in the original myth Jesus was crucified in the outer space , the first rumors about his descent on the earth had to explain why the Son was crucified by Satan, given the fact that a man (as Jesus had to seem on the earth if he was descended on the earth) is similar in all to other men . Hen...

The "lower parts" of the earth would probably refer then to the grave or caves where bodies were interred. The "lower parts of earth" are probably what Putarch calls "extreme parts of earth" where he places the death of Osiris by Thypo. Julian places there the death of...

Now, "signs and wonders" by Seth may be made only on the earth. So it is strange that the author of the book doesn't note the contradiction between the presumed "signs and wonders" by Seth on earth and their not happening in the real history. So it was possible to believe in the ...

In both GNicodemus and Revelation of Adam we have: 1) signs and wonders by the hero... 2) ...that derive attention and scorn by Satan... 3) ...who has doubts about the true identity of the hero.. 4) so Satan thinks that the hero is only a man... 5) and therefore Satan kills only the man possessed by...