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Sure it's of concern, that's what the question is about: Speculation as to what the text might have meant. How do you interpret it?

Don't think that's it, winningedge, look how Paul phrases it "What I mean is this: One of you (In the Church at Corinth) says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”... Clearly there are worshipers in the Corinthian church who...

Does 1 Corinthians 12 point to a time when Jesus/Christ was amongst a panoply of saviour figures offered by the early Church?

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12 What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”

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It means "Good news".... Something "new" has been revealed. In this case, (possibly): a new God.

Does the term itself not fit best with the doctrine of the Marconites?

Or did he think it was a infinite part of God like the Wisdom?


Thx

Ok, so Genesis 1:3, the part that says:

"said"

Did God have to create that?

Or did he think it was a infinite part of God like the Wisdom?


Thx

"Stage 1: The 'savior' (Jesus/Jeshua) is the abstract gnosis. It has no material body. (This is 'Primary Gnosticism' and requires neither God nor a redeemer.) [Until c. 50 BCE] " Could anyone offer any speculation/details as to what this primary stage might have looked like in practice and...

What makes this or that scholar a "critical" one? What should we define as "critically" reading a text?

Can apologists ever employ critical thinking in their devotional analyses of the texts or are they forever closed off to it?

What are the general theories? In particular, why did he choose it instead of the earlier Mark?