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Origen does not support any mythicist claims in any way, shape or form. " ... mythicist claims .." about what, specifically? My reason for referring to & citing Origen is more to determine aspects of how the NT might have been developed. I was referring to Origen supporting the mythic...

Origen does not support any mythicist claims in any way, shape or form. Consider the following quotes from Origen citing that Celsus's allegeded knowledge of John the Baptist. CHAP. XLVII. I would like to say to Celsus, who represents the Jew as accepting somehow John as a Baptist, who baptized Jesu...

Philip K Dick documented in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep of a replicant who had many parallels to Peregrinus's life. For example, this replicant wandered from place to place all throughout it's life. Eventually this wandering replicant is able to make it to earth where he meets his father- an...

Are the parallels based on Pionius, Life of Polycarp by any chance? If so, it may be worthwhile to read the following preface. No. The core ones are the desire to die in fire, a bird coming out of the fire, the association with the posthumous production of letters of Ignatius So according to the “P...

Interesting theory but the parallels with Polycarp are just too strong to doubt the identification. . Are the parallels based on Pionius, Life of Polycarp by any chance? If so, it may be worthwhile to read the following preface. . The text is entirely fictional and tells us nothing about Polycarp. ...