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Fri, 1-Jul-11 11:12:36
I certainly welcome your refutation of anything I post, from your sources.I am very grateful to you for having made me aware, quite some years ago, of Theodosius. His is an astonishing story. We need to do whatever we can to make more Christians more aware of him.
Fri, 1-Jul-11 12:48:38
Sat, 2-Jul-11 10:45:24
Sat, 2-Jul-11 11:05:56
Sat, 2-Jul-11 11:09:48
It seems to me well enough shown, that Constantine did not and could not have created Christianity.Its scriptures also significantly pre-date him.I await proponents' demonstration that he effected a re-write of those scriptures, illustrating of course in each case what the text was like before the change, and how it was different after. Such changes also of course are alleged to have effected anachronisms in the text; I look forward to the documentation of those also.
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Sat, 2-Jul-11 19:20:05
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Tue, 5-Jul-11 10:45:43
Tue, 5-Jul-11 11:27:45
See Matthew 24:14 and Mark 13:10.Notes in the New American Bible, which I am using for my current study, emphasize that those for whom the Gospels were written saw themselves as living between the great tribulation and the rapture.The great tribulation had already occurred, in 70 C.E.Now the church lived with increasing anxiety over what the heck was delaying Christ's return and the rapture. Thus the stories about a master or bridegroom who goes away and then returns unexpectedly after an inexplicable delay. See, for example, Matthew 25:5-6.The verses cited first above provide a criterion for Christ's return, an excuse for the delay.Such a worldview would not have been present in the fourth century —— any more than it is today. Most traditional Christians now believe the great tribulation has not yet occurred, but that the rapture will occur first. They have the sequence reversed.
Tue, 5-Jul-11 11:32:49
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Wed, 6-Jul-11 08:33:35
Proteus wrote: The study I've just done of the Synoptics has been very thorough. In the past 2,000 years, certainly tens of thousands of others have studied them just as thoroughly as I. My Greek professor at seminary knew the whole GT by heart — in Greek — and that's apparently not rare.Whatever Fourth Century anachronisms exist in the text ought to be common knowledge.I eagerly look forward to their enumeration.
Wed, 6-Jul-11 09:38:09
I saw this coming.You said anachronisms.I'm asking about anachronisms.
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