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Traces of that Markan separationism are found also here: He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross (Colossians 2:14) So it appears more and more evident that the man Jesus is symbol of the Law since he is the Most Perfect Observant of the Torah. If ...

So it is explained why on the cross the same Law is crucified: 1)The man Jesus fulfilled the entire Law (according to Cerinthus, the original reader of proto-Mark) 2) therefore the man Jesus is the same Torah 3) therefore the Jesus/Torah is crucified by the divine Christ 4) only by confessing that t...

Corollary of the previous posts: If the crucifixion of a mere man served only to make vain the effects of that crucifixion for the his killers (=allegory for the Judaizers), then only the crucifixion of the same divine Christ could really have some decisive effect on the "true" Pauline Chr...

So the separationism in Mark finds his justification in the following words of Paul: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the gr...

There is the concrete possibility that the Jesus passage in Slavonic Josephus could reflect the knowledge of the Gospel I am talking about that could precede Mark. 1. At that time also a man came forward,—if even it is fitting to call him a man [simply]. 2. His nature as well as his form were a man'...

Surely, using the Ehrman/Wallack terminology, separationism becomes incarnationism after the Empty Tomb in Mark: the man and the spirit become one and the same being. This union may be seen as a form of adoptionism: the spirit adopts the man by becoming forever one with him.

I think it is easy to imagine, Giuseppe. Remember that, from the 18th C, but more particularly the 19th C, the idea that all religions were a derivation of a common theme was highly influential among the educated public. There were many Christian scholars who wanted to prove that Krishna and the ot...

The revolt when Barabbas was captured is just that revolt that had to happen "during the festival": "But not during the festival ," they said, "or the people may riot ." (Mark 14:2) A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder i...

A question: assuming that the gem is a forgery, who could made it and why? Were there mythicists (more precisely, mythicists who would have liked "to prove" the pagan origins of Christianity) already in the Middle Age? Even if he could prove that it was a forgery, he would still have to a...

A question: assuming that the gem is a forgery, who could made it and why? Were there mythicists (more precisely, mythicists who would have liked "to prove" the pagan origins of Christianity) already in the Middle Age?