RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
March 9, 2013 at 3:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 3:34 am by Justtristo.)
(March 8, 2013 at 9:50 am)Confused Ape Wrote: PS: I'm persevering with Humphreys' site but his information does get very confusing.
Christianity Without Jesus.. He writes as if Paul really existed and this page appears to have been posted 10.10.11 if that's meant to be the date.
Quote:An early Jewish Gnostic was the Samaritan "Simon the Magus"
Probably the most successful student of Simon was the apostle Paul, who would concoct a new, Jewish-oriented version of the ancient mystery cult tradition of dying and rising gods.
However, quoted by Paul in his Epistle to the Philippians is a hymn, perhaps one which originated with the Essenes,
Paul himself passed on to heaven – or maybe just died .
St Paul the Apostle – Could it all be a fabrication? Here is a series of articles which give very good arguments that Paul didn't exist. Christian Mystics Of Knowledge is 14.11.11
Quote:The Samaritan "Simon the Magus" was an early Jewish Gnostic who inspired both the mystical "Kabala" (a refinement of Pythagorean "magic" numbers) and later Christian Gnostics – Basilides, Saturninus, Carpocrates among them. Later Catholic writers demonized the poor guy. He may actually be the figure on whom the apostle Paul is based!
I'm still trying to puzzle out how Paul can be based on Simon the Magus at the same time as being Simon The Magus's most successful student.
Hermann Detering a German pastor and scholar makes a very compelling case that the Paul of Tarsus character in the New Testament was based on Simon Magus. If Detering is correct (and I believe he is), then the Paul we know of from the New Testament did not exist.
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