mountainman

The evidence itself indicates that after the time of Suetonius (especially during the 3rd century) many Roman emperors were assassinated by the troops and often the Praetorian Guard, the highest echalon of the Roman army troops. The Roman people were continually liberated by the war effort. They had little if any say in the running of the well-oiled military machine. Many of the assassinations were a consequence of the failure of the emperor to appropriately renumerate the soldiers.



Constantine dismissed the Praetorian Guard, probably as early as 306 CE, and instead surrounded himself at all times by a group of barbarian chieftains, who would share in the conquest of Rome and then the East. The people of the Eastern Roman empire continued to pay tribute to Caesar.

They probably flocked to view the Olympic Games and cheered Emperor Nero when he won all the events, and they probably flocked to view a copy of the Constantine Bible and cheered Bullneck for the publication of the Emperor's Little Red "Good News" Book. It was a marvel of modern technology, and a message direct from the Supreme Monotheistic God of the Universe.

Stringbean

A church father and noted forgery expert.........he made reference to Josephus making use of him to prove a jesus thus the noted forgery in Ant 18:3:3, of course you already know this......

mountainman

Who needs the "TF" for Christ's sake Eusebius expertly forged a hand-written letter by Jesus himself to the King of Edessa.

When are reasonable people going to question the historical integrity of the entire 4th century publication of the Christian literary package?

Sheshbazzar

You would need to take that up with the guys who composed;

Isaiah 11:1-10

Jeremiah 23:5-6 & 33:14-15

and Zechariah 3:8 & 6:12

As they are the principal ones whom with these words got that 'ol rumor mill a'rolling.
'Mark' just pushed it along.

Sheshbazzar

TYou would need to take that up with the guys who composed;

Isaiah 11:1-10

Jeremiah 23:5-6 & 33:14-15

and Zechariah 3:8 & 6:12

As they are the principal ones whom with these words got that 'ol rumor mill a'rolling.
'Mark' or/and -whoever- wrote the rest of the NT tale just pushed it along.

Unbeatable

Maybe he wasn't human. Maybe he was just a mutant with a healing factor. Or a vampire.

mountainman

Moses and Joshua supposedly created the Judaic centralised state monotheistic Jewish religion BCE (Hebrew Bible)

Ardashir created the Sassanid Persian centralised state monotheistic Zoroastrian religion 224 CE (Avesta)

Constantine appears to have created the Roman centralised state monotheistic Christian religion 325 CE (Constantine Bible)

Someone, a hunded years after Muhammad created the Islamic centalised state monotheistic religion. (Quran)

The rise of centralised state monotheistic religions appears to have been favored by warlords.





I dont see any difference between Ptolemaic cosmology and Gnostic cosmology.

Plotinus' metaphysics statrs and ends with a trinity - the "ONE SPIRIT SOUL" in which the One was supreme. The One was all refered to as "The All" and may be treated as the universe. It was also refered to as "The Good", which in Greek was "Chrestos".


I see the Platonists as being part of the so-called Gnostics. They got shafted at Nicaea, and their trinity was exploited by the post Nicaean Christians.

mountainman

Mark and the other boneheads certainly used the LXX as a foundational source for their forgery mill but without any attribution. It appears more of a case of hijacking than anything else. The Hebrew Bible certainly had an antiquity to rival Plato's canonical books.

mountainman

Were the contradictions in the gospels a rat cunning conspiracy?