RE: The Gospel of Plutarch
May 23, 2012 at 8:18 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm by FallentoReason.)
Ok, point taken, but the fundamental point has been completely missed.
There is overwhelming evidence of the similarities between 'Luke' and Plutarch. What scholars tell us about 'Luke' matches up perfectly with who Plutarch was based on his very own writings and writing style.
Plutarch was a part of Philo's 'philosophical group' that saw the OT as a bunch of allegories. Long story short, they became the gnostics and eventually got overthrown by literalists of the OT i.e. the ancestors of today's fundies.
This info is all there in the links I provided. Plutarch is so much more than vague numerology tricks. I don't care about that point at all but thought I'd share. My main point though is that Luke-Acts is written by a Pagan. Doesn't that make you wonder? Who was Jesus then, or more specifically, what was Jesus? As far as I know, Plutarch was using allegories in Luke-Acts to preserve the Nazarene teachings, or the 'Nazarene way'.
Paganism + allegorical understandings + schools of philosophers = the Gospels. Or so I think. I feel like I've only just scraped the surface. I need to do more research.
There is overwhelming evidence of the similarities between 'Luke' and Plutarch. What scholars tell us about 'Luke' matches up perfectly with who Plutarch was based on his very own writings and writing style.
Plutarch was a part of Philo's 'philosophical group' that saw the OT as a bunch of allegories. Long story short, they became the gnostics and eventually got overthrown by literalists of the OT i.e. the ancestors of today's fundies.
This info is all there in the links I provided. Plutarch is so much more than vague numerology tricks. I don't care about that point at all but thought I'd share. My main point though is that Luke-Acts is written by a Pagan. Doesn't that make you wonder? Who was Jesus then, or more specifically, what was Jesus? As far as I know, Plutarch was using allegories in Luke-Acts to preserve the Nazarene teachings, or the 'Nazarene way'.
Paganism + allegorical understandings + schools of philosophers = the Gospels. Or so I think. I feel like I've only just scraped the surface. I need to do more research.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
