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The point of this digression being that substitution cannot be early. Sorry if I am not taking notes correctly but I thought you were one of the gospel was written in the second century people. Definitely. I put Judas in the 3rd century. And I put Irenaeus' writings in the latter half of the 3rd ce...

The Arabic take (Muslim writer) is lifted from some revision of the gospel of Judas. It's in the Cainite stream of literature (Irenaeus AH 1. 31.1). Basilides does not travel this path from everything we have in the Patristic writings about him. From a theological developmental standpoint, the subst...

The flaw with logia theories, of which your Thomas is one, is that it requires a purpose for a collection of sayings and its circulation. Where did it come from? What assumptions does it make of the reader? It doesn't take much investigating down these avenues blows wide gaping holes in the concept ...

You should read up more on the Synoptic theory. There are literally dozens of proposed models, although only three or four get any airplay. Over the last two hundred fifty years a number of people who have proposed various prototypes. Even your theory (basically a logia model) falls into a category...

You should read up more on the Synoptic theory. There are literally dozens of proposed models, although only three or four get any airplay. Over the last two hundred fifty years a number of people who have proposed various prototypes. Even your theory (basically a logia model) falls into a category ...

The Marcionites were but one of many antinomon sects Perhaps, but when ? Based on the understanding in Galatians of how slavery is passed by the mother's status and not the father's, it has to be after Hadrian's ruling on the subject, which overturned Claudius' (Claudius made a number of poor rulin...

Any gospel that blames the Jews is pushing the Marcionite needle. There are other considerations namely the Flying Jesus passages The Marcionites were but one of many antinomon sects. Amongst all your assertions, you don't provide even one viable alternative to*Ev Nor do you pay attention to the fa...

Flying Jesus scene is paralleled by flying Simon Magus and Simon Peter in the pseudo Clement saga. Both seem to be from the same era (4th century, 3rd at the earliest) and probably both draw from some pagan satirical work or perhaps some anti-Mani work, long lost to history.

Any gospel that blames the Jews is pushing the Marcionite needle. There are other considerations namely the Flying Jesus passages The Marcionites were but one of many antinomon sects. The Marcionite gospel is far less anti-Jewish than say the first version of the gospel of John, and even the receiv...

This is a very wrong understanding. Clement is quoting Philippians 1:21 Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain . ἐμοὶ γὰρ τὸ ζῆν Χριστὸς καὶ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν κέρδος . The sentiment is explained in Philippians 3:7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted ...