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Post by big_electron on Jan 30, 2010 5:30:46 GMT -5
Basically the idea (posited by a priest named Arius) is that Jesus and God were not the same entity, but distinct with Jesus as a lesser being created by God. This went against the idea of the trinity in which the two are the same and separate, and sort of co-existed. It was deemed heretical, but it was one of the major rifts in the church and helped define some of the political and foreign actions of the late Roman Empire and the Byzantines as they sought to crush the belief. They had limited success, as I understand that Sir Isaac Newton, among others, was an Arian or something like it. Obviously it has no connection to Nazi Aryanism. So instead of Jesus being the son of God the Father, Jesus is the parasitic twin of God the Father?
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Post by big_electron on Mar 9, 2010 5:58:53 GMT -5
When "christianity" was manufactured at the request of Emporer Constantine, over 400 books were eliminated as they were considered "irrelevant". To include even some of them would blow the myth entirely, so a campaign of destroying all copies began. To the embarrassment of the fundies, some books survived. Burn all the libraries! Start with Alexandria.
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Post by big_electron on Mar 18, 2010 4:43:33 GMT -5
I take it that at one time there were at least 20 gospels going around. We've all heard of the Gospel of Judas, Thomas...
but there was also a Gospel of Mary? Would that be Magdalene or mother of Jesus? What other gospels were out there?
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Post by Damen on Mar 18, 2010 5:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by safaraz on Mar 19, 2010 11:03:36 GMT -5
I take it that at one time there were at least 20 gospels going around. We've all heard of the Gospel of Judas, Thomas... but there was also a Gospel of Mary? Would that be Magdalene or mother of Jesus? What other gospels were out there? Well none of the Gospels where written by anyone in the Bible stories, they were written between about 80 CE at the earliest and 150 CE at the latest and just credited to Biblical figures. So it could be any of the Mary's that get mentioned, or maybe even one that was known in the early church but got written out latter.
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Post by kristine on Mar 20, 2010 22:40:35 GMT -5
I take it that at one time there were at least 20 gospels going around. We've all heard of the Gospel of Judas, Thomas... but there was also a Gospel of Mary? Would that be Magdalene or mother of Jesus? What other gospels were out there? Well none of the Gospels where written by anyone in the Bible stories, they were written between about 80 CE at the earliest and 150 CE at the latest and just credited to Biblical figures. So it could be any of the Mary's that get mentioned, or maybe even one that was known in the early church but got written out latter. so why didn't anybody credit Jesus? Why is the one guy the whole shebang is based around the one person who didn't write a damn thing?
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