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The Gospel according to Thomas contains numerous gnostic references, corrupted in a Judaizing manner. Apologistic scholars (historians) like Goodacre fail to see that, as opposed to critical scholars like Jean Magne.

Christian baptism is just the result of a Judaization of the philosophical baptism in the Crater, described in the Corpus Hereticum IV.

Most of teh parables are of dualistic origin and only hypocritically judaized.

The original doctrine of the serpent as saviour follows from redactorial fatigue in many places, such as the Emmaus story of Luke, the healing of two blind mobs in Matthew, Nag Hammadi texts such as Testimonium Veritatis, Origin of World, and Hypostasis of the Archons. The confusion in the epistles ...

No, this does not describe Marcionism anywhere near closely. Marcion saw in the serpent of Genesis some supernatural evil. Which is late development, not pre-Christian gnosis, which saw the serpent as the Saviour.

The early Paul is a billowing cloud of venomous gas; it appears sweet to naive scholars (historians) but chokes all possible progress. Critical scholars know that the mythos must be derived from the logical order of dogmata and rites, not from the accidental chronological order of surviving records.

Christianity is anti-Torah disguised as perfection of the same. It sells the eucharist, a ritual with the purpose of freeing mankind from the dictatorship of Law and creation, as predicted and approved in the Old Testament by being instituted by the Messiah, a character whose coming is foretold by S...

Ep Eugnostos and Ev Thomas are replete with traces of pre-Christian gnosticism, disguised by Judaization.

No, the rigorous dualism predates any Luke-warm compromises found in the NT as results of redactional fatigue, notwithstanding the deceptice attempts of right-wing apologists. It is based on Genesis 3, which can be read in astraightforward way as the demiurge (Jewish god) and his archons (angels) ha...

No, the rigorous dualism predates any luke-warm compromises found in the NT as results of redactional fatigue, notwithstanding the deceptice attempts of right-wing apologists. It is based on Genesis 3, which can be read in astraightforward way as the demiurge (Jewish god) and his archons (angels) ha...