Anti-demiurgist parables ended in Judaizing gospels

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Giuseppe
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Anti-demiurgist parables ended in Judaizing gospels

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Robert M Price has persuaded me that some parables, as the Parable of the Sower or the Parable of the Wicked Tenants, are best understood as anti-demiurgist parables.

They were misinterpreted as parables by a Jewish teacher and even used against Marcion. For example, the Parable of the Wicked Tenants was used to break the dangerous marcionite secrecy of *Ev 20:1-8, under the illusion that the father of the parable was YHWH and the vineyard a symbol of Israel. But originally the Parable was anti-demiurgist:
  • the father is the Unknown Father, not YHWH;
  • the son is the Son of Father ("Bar-Abbas");
  • the servants sent by the father are the "villains" of the Old Testament;
  • the wicked tenants are the evil Archontes.
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By logical extension, when the Archontes of 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 are interpreted as earthly authorities and not as spiritual demons, it is in action the same kind of misinterpretation that leads people to believe that the Sower is Jesus and not rather the evil demiurge.
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