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"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived" Doctrinally vital to whom? To those whose interpretation of a 2nd century Christianity depended on the Marcionites having had a gospel and the so-called Paulist epistles before orthodox Christianity developed their own canon. T...

Since at least 1600 years ago, a Christian writer admitted Once again, balderdash! A third century Christian writer evinces Christian views in the third century. He cannot "admit" anything regarding a text written in the first century because he has no direct access to knowledge regarding...

In Revelation the author always means Babylon when he says Babylon. Rome is of no particular interest to the author; Rome being only one of the many kingdoms corrupted by "the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.” Impossible and completely alien to any remotely accurate ...

No, I'm thinking that the site of the former ziggurat, which is now a depression, was once a hill. Completely irrelevant. The ancient audience had access neither to your speculation about this site nor to the catalogue of archaeological mounds in a British encyclopedia. More to the point, as Bernar...

Blood wrote:If there's one thing we can be sure about, it's that we cannot be sure about anything in Revelation.

Utter nonsense.

"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived"

Doctrinally vital to whom?

Blood wrote:... how many scholars ...

Scholars are irrelevant. Only evidence matters.

I admit nothing without my lawyer present.

As to my earlier statement, it is plausible that a historical Paul was named Paul, not that I am certain about it.

But I was so fond of the anagram! ("General Religious Discussion")

Is it true that Paulus is a previously unknown name ? Mea culpa. Please forgive me. I have found examples in Plutarch. Paul is not a previously unknown name. :tombstone: It appears in Plutarch as a Latin "gens" name; presumably as a regular name elsewhere, I am not sure. I made the mistak...