RE: Evidence: The Gathering
August 22, 2015 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2015 at 1:16 am by Mudhammam.)
(August 22, 2015 at 12:38 am)Minimalist Wrote: They had 1,500 years to distill out the impurities if they wished. They didn't bother. Good enough for the evangelicals, as you say.I have heard of it, and almost bought it, but instead picked up Origin's Contra Celsium, which is what I'll be reading after I finish Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Tertullian's Apology, On the Spectacles, and On the Soul, Minucius Felix's Octavius, and Diogenes Laertius' Lives. And after I get through Origin and some Plotinus, I plan on reading Hoffman's translations of Porphyry's Against the Christians and the Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans. I believe both of those latter books are also reconstructed by fragments that exist in later Christian apologists, yes?
Quote:However, the author of Acts, writing that Saul's intention was to usurp the civil authority of the Roman magistrates,
My money would have been on the magistrates. But it is a bit like Trump saying he'll deport 11 million people because it is what the great unwashed wants to hear.
Ever read Hoffman's re-creation of Celsus' "On the True Doctrine?" Basically he took Origen's 'Contra Celsus', stripped out all of Origen's silly apologetics and tried to re-create as much of the book as he could.
There are some fantastic anti-xtian quotes in it. Somewhere, I had a list of them. I'll have to look around for it.
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