(July 26, 2018 at 7:35 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(July 26, 2018 at 7:32 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: Are you referring to certain non canonical gospels? Which ones?Already discussing terms-of-art.......aren't we? That's part of what's so fun about christianity...aside from the dragons.
Quote:I don't remember any that reflect that theology. I know of the gnostics.Should you? They were burnt as heretics.....after all.
Quote:There is Marcion, now that I think of it, but unless you shift all of Paul's writings into the second century (which I am dubious of the viability of such a theory), then it doesn't really fit.
None of "Paul" could have come from the first century......so there's always that...........
The best we could say...assuming that every corrolary to a christin story was incidental...is that gods' unoriginal. Thats a deal breaker or it isn't//but to the contention in question...the originality of christianity.......it's a call to prayer, lol.
Hmm, I'll make a thread on Paul.