(March 2, 2022 at 1:28 am)JairCrawford Wrote: First of all, hi guys! It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since I’ve come on here. Time flies!
So I just finished reading a post Rene Salm made on his blog and was wondering if anyone else here had seen it. He is now convinced that Marcion may not have existed. I’m wondering what y’all’s thoughts are.
Well, what do the relevant historians and scholars have to say in response to this? Reading only his perspective, I take it with a grain of salt. Far too many people think they're qualified experts on matters of certain periods of history when that ends up being not the case.
The thing with scholars and historians is that they have read and analyzed the relevant resources, and they have the background training, and so intuitively have the required context to better assess the likelihood of whether this person or that historically existed, compared to the layperson.
Just because someone writes something exciting and controversial doesn't mean it's true or that it's credible.
