RE: Didn't Nero launch Christianity?
April 15, 2019 at 11:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2019 at 11:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 15, 2019 at 4:43 pm)Acrobat Wrote:I don't know how repeating what you've already been linked would help..but, again, Marcion didn't believe there was a historical jesus. He specifically rejected the birth life and death of any such man.(April 15, 2019 at 4:09 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Marcion believed that there was no historical jesus, Acro.
That would probably of came as a surprise to Marcion, who wrote of Jesus having a historical life, even being brought In front of Pilate and being crucified
“And Pilate called together the chief priests
and the rulers and the people, and said unto them,
14 Ye brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people:
and, behold, I examined him before you,
and found no fault in this man of what ye charge against him:
15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him;
and, lo, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him.
16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17 (Now he under a neces“
From the gospel of Marcion
The term "historical jesus" doesn't refer to a story about some god appearing in human form. That would be the mythical christ.
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