"John the Baptist" as fig leaf to cover John the Pillar: the case of 1 Corinthians 15:3-7

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Re: "John the Baptist" as fig leaf to cover John the Pillar: the case of 1 Corinthians 15:3-7

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Giuseppe wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:22 am Ok but the stakes are very high.

Think about that: the earliest gospel starting with a divine entity descending from above already adult.

After the descent, he can be more human than any other human beings, more realistic than any other real thing, the fact remains that he is essentially an ALIEN to the entire creation.

Hence, I think that a such incipit for a such gospel supports mythicism.
I fail to see the importance to any of that - unless you think that there was a Jesus, a John, and so on. In any form or story
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