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by arnoldo
Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:25 am
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: Biblical Jesus Existed, Now What?
Replies: 33
Views: 267

[quote=""dockeen""]Is that title link bait or what? OK, here is the thought experiment. You have the use of a time machine, a universal translator,tricorder, period clothes and equipment, and 4 security guards armed with phaser 2. You travel to the right time to check on the exis...
by arnoldo
Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:41 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: Peanut Gallery: Does God Exist Debate
Replies: 222
Views: 2545

[quote=""aupmanyav""] Especially when someone claims that there is nothing unchanging in the universe. My Hinduism has problems with this. We know there are sub-atomic changes taking place all the time. That is normal. A change will be, for example, if they do not change, contrar...
by arnoldo
Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:09 pm
Forum: General World History
Topic: Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'
Replies: 56
Views: 768

[quote=""Chili""] . . . Let's not forget that we are talking metamorphosis here and not some travelling evangelist scavenging away to catch-as-catch-can like a wolf inside someone elses flock. Your analogy about a flock and wolf is strangely similar to how Marcion was characteriz...
by arnoldo
Wed Nov 27, 2013 2:47 pm
Forum: General World History
Topic: Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'
Replies: 56
Views: 768

[quote=""Chili""]. . . Let's not forget that we are talking metamorphosis here and not some travelling evangelist scavenging away to catch-as-catch-can like a wolf inside someone elses flock.[/quote] Your analogy about a flock and wolf is strangely similar to how Marcion was char...
by arnoldo
Tue Nov 26, 2013 11:49 pm
Forum: General World History
Topic: Ancient Confession Found: 'We Invented Jesus Christ'
Replies: 56
Views: 768

[quote=""none_""] http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm Atwill's most intriguing discovery came to him while he was studying "Wars of the Jews" by Josephus [the only surviving first-person historical account of first-century Judea] alongside the New Tes...
by arnoldo
Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:51 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: Marcion's Use of Galatians
Replies: 3
Views: 70

[quote=""aa5874""] Using google translate for one of the above latin phrase, the following strikeout illustrates how Marcion may've edited Paul's writings. Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, *made of a woman* , made under the law, T...
by arnoldo
Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:32 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: Early-dating advocates?
Replies: 5
Views: 120

Msgr. Thomas Herron, Clement and the Early Church of Rome: On the Dating of Clement's First Epistle to the Corinthians ,argues that Clement wrote the Epistle to the Corinthians before 70 -A.D. Additionally, Herron presents that contrary to Eusebius view, Clement was not Bishop of Rome when he wrote ...
by arnoldo
Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:43 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: Marcion's Use of Galatians
Replies: 3
Views: 70

Marcion's Use of Galatians

Marcion allegedly had access to Pauline writings in the second century. The earliest Latin commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul has the following section concerning Marcion's alleged use of Pauline writings. The references to Marcion (flourished at Rome from about 140) are very numerous, and no ...
by arnoldo
Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:26 am
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: The Pauline authors are the Late "Pauls"
Replies: 45
Views: 640

[quote=""aa5874""] . . Do not forget that Origen had already admitted that Celsus forgot to mention anything about Paul. See Origen "Against Celsus 1 And I do not know how Celsus should have forgotten or not have thought of saying something about Paul [/b], the founder, afte...
by arnoldo
Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:06 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: The Pauline authors are the Late "Pauls"
Replies: 45
Views: 640

[quote=""aa5874""]It is extremely easy to show that the Pauline Corpus was unknown in the 2nd century and that the Jesus story was known and established before the Pauline Corpus was written. If Paul was indeed the one who INITIALLY preached the supposed new religion of Christ cr...