All the evidence of early separationism
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 5:21 am
I would like to list all the items of the evidence of separationism in general terms found until now:
- Mark was said to be used by separationists;
- in Mark there are indeed clues of separationism;
- someone has denied that Marcion was docetist, by claiming that he was really separationist;
- Cerinthus was said to be a separationist, meaning a "Jesus son of Joseph" as the carnal Jesus where the spiritual Christ enters in;
- not concidentially, the tradition of the Messiah Son of Joseph as also a suffering Messiah from which the triumphal Messiah has to be distinct;
- Valentinians distinguished also between a carnal Jesus suffering on earth, and a spiritual Christ crucified on the cosmic cross called Horos.
- The separationism may be the reason why only the Messiah "Son of Joseph" had to be crucified precisely by Pilate (= known to be slaughterer of the 'descendants of Joseph', how the Samaritans called themselves).
- 1 and 2 Corinthians could have addressed really Cerinthians, i.e. separationists, and, as such, deniers of a carnal Jesus being risen before any other risen.
- Simon Magus was said to be 'from Samaria' to make the point that the real victim of the crucifixion was a "Messiah Son of Joseph", notoriously a Samaritan (since the Samaritans called themselves 'descendants of Joseph").