(March 2, 2022 at 2:45 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -as a device for asserting proto-catholic gospel. He's supposed to have written a bunch of consequential shit, and shit that scared the pants off early mob bishops - to the point that they wrote explicitly against his ideas. He's credited with arranging the earliest proto christian gospels and doing so in a way that leaves no room for the christian religion as we know it.
....and yet not a single scrap or sentence of his own has survived. We only think he existed because he was a bishops boogeyman. Like so many characters in early christian legend , whatever we know of him is on par with knowledge of the Real Character of paul bunyon The Man.
It’s true that none of his writings directly survive. But I find it difficult to believe that Justin Martyr would explicitly mention him as a contemporary if he didn’t exist, unless, of course, there is reason to believe said mention in First Apology could be an interpolation.
