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The gospels are just indirectly euhemerizing corruption of pre-Christian gnostic tradition. Therefore, H. Raschke already realized that the evangelical Christ is a historization of the Paulinic christ, who is a Catholically tuned gnostic Christ, who is entirely metaphysical. Euhemerists are unable ...

I just finished listening to the 2 hour video. Probably not a lot for people here as most of the talk was around mythicism and historicism as general topics rather than specific questions. Much of the video was the interviewer asking superchat questions. When covering specific questions raised by s...

But what is your theory about how you'd be able to find out? I will repeat what I wrote above: I have relentlessly attempted to falsify my theory ( that the church has lied about everything - including the chronology ) by seeking out some corroborating historical evidence external to the church sou...

If you can click and count, you can verify that the so-called Valentinian Exposition (+ subs) speaks exclusively of "Jesus" the XHRHSTOS NHL CODEX XI 2 A Valentinian Exposition 22–44 (including the sub texts!) ⲓⲏⲥ: 17 ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ 11 ⲙⲛⲧ-ⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲟⲥ 2 Tractates with leaf:line number: 2. A Valentin...

LOL

https://youtu.be/w6VCAbIPYxk

I don't watch videos myself, but I'd be interested to see what he has to say.
Any volunteers?

Diving into the texts in this regard unfortunately means reading the original MSS in the original language That's all well enough for the NHL+ Coptic MSS because they have been buried for 16 centuries or more during which time they could not have been tampered with. These are either the original MS...

Moving Paul to the second century is a totally easy, necessary, and straightforward move, as best explained by Stuart G. Waugh in his blog posts. Only intellectual intertia still keeps people from doing that step wholeheartedly. But talking about previously existing Jewish bonds proves that Wells i...

This is a post I wrote for another forum which I am reposting here. In the interview on the Synoptic Problem with Jacob Berman on History Valley, linked above, I said that I did not think Luke's 'the poor' is earlier than Matthew's 'poor in spirit' because Matthew may in fact be closer to the meani...

Re: How Luke Was Written Ken expressed his arguments on History Valley! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnMK3u_SYk Well, I answered some questions from the host, Jacob Berman, and some from the Live Chat. The most useful feedback I got from the comments was two people telling me not to bang the ta...