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What I don't like decisively about Vinzent's introduction to Marcion, is that he assumes that Marcion was remembering a historical man, and insofar he was doing this , the prof doesn't accuse him of Conspiracy and of Invention, but only of 'sacred inspiration', etc. Couchoud did the same, even if ac...

So it is not true that: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." ...is based on Romans 13:1 : "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established ...

The evangelist "Mark" is doing a rehabilitation of the Christ of the Demiurge under the assumption that the Demiurge was hated by the Gnostics . He concedes that the demons recognize the rule of the demiurge but he emphasizes that this doesn't mean a secret alliance between the demons and ...

Compare both the two episodes: Mark 3:27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man 's house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man's house Mark 5: They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from...

arnoldo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 10:13 am FWIW, my son's name is Abdiel (Servant of God).
https://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/5-15.htm

I had tought that you was a Catholic priest!

So the mythicist Jean Magne: The function of the myth is, in essence, to restore the god of OT to the rank of supreme god. Like H.A. had succeeded his partial rehabilitation by dividing him into two characters: Ialdabaoth, precipitated, and Sabaoth, exalted, Phil 2:6-11 operates his total rehabilita...

But which is the evidence of this embarrassment? Short answer : the fact that in a later hymn we have another perfect example of kenosis, one where a deity is lowered (from a high status) to transform him in a positive image of the demiurge against a previous negative image of the demiurge. This ma...

There is a strong difference between this reading: ...the god of this world will stretch forth his hand against the his son and they will hang that one upon a tree not knowing who he is. ...and the following reading: ...the god of this world will stretch forth his hand against the Son of God and the...

Reading Jean Magne's article , I learn that there is the following reading of Asc of Is . 9:13-14 : “En verité, il descendra dans le monde à la fin des jours le Seigneur (comprendre: Jesus-Sabaôth) qui sera appelé Christ après qu'il sera descendu et qu'il sera devenu semblable à notre forme et qu'on...

I had written: No. I would answer "No" just as you if I don't see that: 1) the presumed "embarrassment" for the claimed reduction of the status of a god is overcame by the his receiving just the name of YHWH in the consequent exaltation. This would move me to apply an "herme...