stephan huller

whom the apostles called Barnabas

I have always found this a strange translation. “Prophet” seems a more likely translation of “nabas”

stephan huller

these vile gnostic heretics

Do you think you really are Eusebius? What's so “vile” about the gnostics? I forgot. They helped write the “parodies” of early Christianity you have helped identify for future generations of pseudo-scholars. I assume Rene has helped you unmask another “parody” here

And WTF is a “canonical Christian”? It's like you live in a parallel universe

mountainman

We can all read Eusebius, the master heresiologist.
It is not difficult to understand his political position.



Correct. They composed blasphemous tractates against Jesus. They ridiculed the sacred scriptures. They devastated the faithful flock like wolves. Eusebius gives us many clues as to why he called them vile heretics.




The Old and New Testaments made for excellent satirical fodder ....


A canonical-book-following Christian as distinct from a 'noncanonical-book-following "Christian". I must live in a parallel universe as far as 4th century history goes, because I refuse to confess that the "Ecclesiatical Histories" of the 4th century are reflective of the historical truth in the political sense.

aa5874

Acts of the Apostles is NOT a credible historical source since the very same author claimed Jesus was WITNESSED by the disciples as he ascended in a cloud on his way to heaven.

You need to get some credible souces for your claims about Barnabas.

I use Acts to show that the Canon is a compilation of Myth Fables so you might as well say that Barnabas was the cousin of Romulus and Remus.

stephan huller

God aa, the same fucking broken record player, day in and day out. I'm surprised you're not someone's wife.

sotto voce

'And when Peter, the most divine and all-reverent leader of the apostles'

Good heavens, how on earth did the Vatican miss out on this one?

mountainman

The 4th (and 5th) century imperially sponsored Christians did not miss out on this one, because it is generally admitted that they coordinated, with the usual "Imperial Support", the destruction (probably by BOOK-BURNING) of the original Greek manuscript for the Acts of Mark, along with the other 20 odd Greek Gnostic Gospels and the other 30 odd Greek Gnostic Acts.

By the mid 4th century preservation of the Gnostic Greek literary reaction (to the Constantine Bible) was being explored in Coptic, Syriac and Manichaean. Greek literature was no longer safe from the "search and destroy missions" of the orthodox canon-following heresiologists.

stephan huller

I think I am going to get someone to join this forum to constantly suggest that all Biblical texts were written by space aliens. And then another guy who endlessly repeats the argument that the texts were written by highly evolved cats who secretly developed the three monotheistic faiths in order to start an apocalyptic war in the Middle East

Duvduv

Or maybe someone who would constantly suggest that the Jesus figure was really Agrippa.....

stephan huller

$50 to any dumb dumb who can demonstrate that I have ever referenced the idea that Jesus was Agrippa