FRDB Archives

Freethought & Rationalism Archive

The archives are read only.


Go Back   FRDB Archives > Philosophy & Religious Studies > History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Welcome, Peter Kirby.
You last visited: Today at 01:23 AM

 
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 05-27-2013, 06:57 AM   #121
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 3,058
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by spin View Post
I do realize that you have singlehandedly, without a minimum trace of evidence, asserted for the last several years a conspiracy theory of massive proportions--that would make anyone supporting it look ridiculous--concerning the sort of wholesale invention by a lone author that is so unprecedented that it is incredible, especially given the fact that the touted author shows no sign of any creative or perceptive qualities in those writings issued in his name.

Here's an interesting note on who it is (those with low self-worth, especially with regard to their sense of agency in the world at large) who hold to, believe in, and promote conspiracy theories:

NY Times Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories



BTW, where's the evidence that Constantine ordered Eusebius (or anyone else) to produce 50 bibles? What primary source supports this idea?

Jeffrey
Jeffrey Gibson is offline  
Old 05-27-2013, 07:00 AM   #122
Contributor
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: the fringe of the caribbean
Posts: 18,988
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
...Yes Eusebius believed in the Eternal Christ. But Eusebius also believed in the Historical Jesus. This latter point is what is at issue here, since spin denies it because of his misunderstanding of the nature of history.
The Eternal Christ cannot be an historical Christ.

Eusebius promoted Mythology under the guise of history.

Again, in the HJ/MJ argument the Eternal Christ is a Myth.

Eusebius believed in Mythology and wanted people to believe his Mythological Jesus was a figure of history.

Now, we have the writings of Philo, Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and the Dead Sea Scrolls which mentioned nothing of a Messianic ruler called Jesus in the time of Tiberius.

There is simple no corroborative data for an historical Jesus c 6-33 CE.
aa5874 is offline  
Old 05-27-2013, 07:37 AM   #123
Banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,885
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by aa5874 View Post

The Eternal Christ cannot be an historical Christ.

Eusebius promoted Mythology under the guise of history.

Again, in the HJ/MJ argument the Eternal Christ is a Myth.

Eusebius believed in Mythology and wanted people to believe his Mythological Jesus was a figure of history.

Now, we have the writings of Philo, Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and the Dead Sea Scrolls which mentioned nothing of a Messianic ruler called Jesus in the time of Tiberius.

There is simple no corroborative data for an historical Jesus c 6-33 CE.
Sure, but can I add here that history was made in the 'word story' that was presented circa 6-33 CE, wherein Jesus is real as the second Adam to undo the Gordian knot that keeps humans snared in their own life by the first Adam operative as usurper in us.

He so is "the way," but not the end and therefore should never be called "Messianic ruler," but must die to set the Christ free in Man to which he was second and not the Messiah himself: "As you say" is what he said, etc some more, but never proclaimed that himself, except in Matthew and Mark maybe where it could be read 'in agreement' to say the same thing (but I would not say that myself).

That is how and why he 'set the example' for us to follow and therefore we must as much as take him down from the cross and place ourselves upon it, and that is much easier said than done, I suppose.
Chili is offline  
Old 05-27-2013, 07:55 AM   #124
Banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,885
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by aa5874 View Post
Do you not even understand the basic concept of God Incarnate--the Logos manifested in the Flesh?
I do know quite a bit about Christology actually, but in this thread we are just talking about why mythicists dispute the human nature of Jesus Christ, and have not discussed the separate topic of His alleged divine nature.

If Jesus had no human nature then there was no Historical Jesus, regardless of spin's tendentious restriction of the meaning of history. A solely divine Christ is compatible with a mythicist reading of the Gospels, if 'divine' is understood to mean 'imagined', following Feuerbach's theory of God as psychological projection of human imagination.

The theory of word made flesh in John's Prologue produced the core Christological concept of the hypostatic union of the two divine and human natures in the one person of Jesus Christ. Hypostasis cannot really be termed a "basic concept", if by 'basic' we mean an idea that meets rational standards of clarity and distinctness. As Hume explained, Aristotle's concept of substance (akin to hypostasis) lacks content.

The unity of the Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History is a highly mysterious, obscure, metaphysical, controversial, archaic, political and dogmatic topic, quite lacking in what you call "basic concepts", if by that you mean ideas with clear objective meaning. The "basic concept" of hypostasis lacks any scientific meaning and is purely an article of faith, especially considering that one of its legs, Jesus of Nazareth, is pure fraud and skullduggery.

I have my own views on the meaning of the so-called basic concepts of Christology, as grounding the eternal Christ in astronomical observation of natural cosmic reason, and imagining the presence of this eternal Son in history. But such "basic concepts" are not found in traditional Christianity, with its false concepts of heaven and hell, entification of the trinity, and treatment of mythical fiction as historical fact.

Jesus may have said not one jot or tittle of the law would pass away, but he could not have imagined the iota controversy of Semi-Arianism, where the "basic concept" of whether He was the same (homoousios) or similar (homoiousious) as God generated schism and accusations of heresy.

Yes Eusebius believed in the Eternal Christ. But Eusebius also believed in the Historical Jesus. This latter point is what is at issue here, since spin denies it because of his misunderstanding of the nature of history.
But to know about Christology means nothing and nothing all and is actually already a proclamation of denial of being 'Christ seeing the seer see' = I Am [that I am and see the suchness of me].

That is what Christ is about and gives rise to the iota argument in evidence of that, wherein to deny that is to also deny the Son made manifest by that name in the very NT as NEW testament in force, wherein the testator died to see what he saw in the netherworld there, and wrote to tell us about it in the NT.

It so is a labyrinth event with white sails to declare the victory that drives the NT.

And let me add that there is nothing new about the manner and ways that is the same for all humans, but it is the colorful presentation that they 'made hay with' against the anti-christ that prevailed during those days, or called anti-chirst as opposite to Christ to make also hell known on earth, with black sails to say.
Chili is offline  
Old 05-27-2013, 10:42 AM   #125
Banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,885
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheshbazzar View Post

Allowing for the moment that 'Paul' was a 1st century 'apostle'. As has been pointed out there were Torah observant messianists in Jerusalem (and scattered throughout the Diaspora) that either did not know of any 'Pauline gospel',
or knowing of it, continued to reject its claims, and continued to follow the Torah long after 'Paul',
clear up till they were exterminated or submerged under the onslaught of 'Paulinist Christianity' and its murderous purge of all 'Judaizers' and 'heretics'.

These Torah observant messianists were every bit, if not far more 'Christian' than the murderous mob that aligned themselves with Paulinisim.

So here is the problem that you insist is right, but is totally wrong, and it is precisely the reason why "for those sins he died" so we will [also] be free from slavery and sin.

And let's be reminded here that Jews was not their aim, but you just can't have Judaizers in Rome where Catholic is the name of the game because Jesus and James are not a match but are opposites in view of the same end = the difference between heaven and hell here on this earth.

And do you not see the paradox in 'being far more Christian' than just being a Christian? . . . as if 'being a Christians' is a fantasy charade!
Quote:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus
If you want to enter into eternal life, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS .
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus

Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus

51. Amen amen, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus

15. If ye love me, keep my Commandments.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesus

10. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love,
just as I have kept My Father's Commandments and abide in His love.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1 John

3. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1 John

22. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, and DO those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1 John

3. For this is the love of God, that we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. And His Commandments are not burdensome.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rev

12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS of God, -and- have the testimony of Jesus Christ
Quote:
Originally Posted by Revelations

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS of God, -and- the faith of Jesus.
The 'Popes' and their 'Paul' speak charming words to make men forsake and forget keeping The Commandments of God, and the words of 'Jesus'.
And to follow the teachings of murderous men, with their man made and enforced pagan demon worship derived 'holy days' which Torah, the Prophets, nor 'Jesus' never commended nor commanded.

No man can serve two masters. To serve 'Jesus' is to reject 'Paul', and those that invented 'Paul'.
And serve 'Paul' is to reject The Commandments of the God of the Hebrews, and the words of 'Jesus'.

The two testimonies are at odds. There were two distinct groups of 'Christians', the Torah observant COMMANDMENT KEEPING original believers, and the lawless murderers that rose up and campaigned under the teachings of the Popes 'Paul'.
It is a fact that even the unbeliever, the honest atheist needs to recognize and to acknowledge
And YES, it is for believers and unbelievers to know that slavery and sin is for 'sinners only' as 'the sheep' of 'their flock' and only their flock wherein they hear the shepherds voice . . . and hither and thither they will go until they get lost on their own and there the 'good shepherd' will find them [as in one by each] on his own.

And so there is no righteousness as Christian about them at all, and hence the words 'more Christian' do not belong in their world where even faith pertains only to flesh that remains flesh until 'called and chosen' to die to the cross that they carry when it turns the color purple on them.

All the passages you cited here speak in evidence of the saved-sinner complex wherein slavery is reinforced instead liberty for which the sinner-only must die on the cross in NT fashion as shown to us.
Chili is offline  
Old 05-28-2013, 07:31 AM   #126
Banned
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,885
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheshbazzar View Post


The 'Popes' and their 'Paul' speak charming words to make men forsake and forget keeping The Commandments of God, and the words of 'Jesus'.
And to follow the teachings of murderous men, with their man made and enforced pagan demon worship derived 'holy days' which Torah, the Prophets, nor 'Jesus' never commended nor commanded.

No man can serve two masters. To serve 'Jesus' is to reject 'Paul', and those that invented 'Paul'.
And serve 'Paul' is to reject The Commandments of the God of the Hebrews, and the words of 'Jesus'.

The two testimonies are at odds. There were two distinct groups of 'Christians', the Torah observant COMMANDMENT KEEPING original believers, and the lawless murderers that rose up and campaigned under the teachings of the Popes 'Paul'.
It is a fact that even the unbeliever, the honest atheist needs to recognize and to acknowledge
Catholics keep the 10 commandments and add 5 more of their own and in fact are experts in sin, with Venial, Cardinal, Capital and God knows what not else.

Most obvious is that you do not even know Catholics always looking with your protestant eyes and self righteous Sunday-suit on. Where I come from the word Christian was never heard and so is where 'Catholics are' what 'Catholics do' with no more to say.

Catholicism is just a faith based tradition with never an evangelist to be heard, least of all seen on national TV, nor are there two by two's knocking on doors to peddle their religious shit while thriving on the 'slamming of doors' into their faces that they receive in answer to their knock on the door of a total stranger to them.

They call it persecution and thrive on that as a soldier of Christ in the army of the Lord. Fucken bullshit ideas that come from the very pit of hell, but is the most popular sport in America still today, and that is the reason why Catholics cannot be Catholic there forever in defense against 'crawling' wolves even who are ready to $#@& and devour anything that moves, and in a measure of defense have painted red all over their front door to tell them from a distance "I am already bleeding like you," try the neighbor maybe.

And do you not remember Van Impe on national TV with that cute little #$%@ on his side calling Catholics his friends on Sunday morning hoping they would respond to his "altar call" while not in Church?

And it is so true that "no man can serve two masters" and therefore it is "sinner-only" that Catholics are and remain to never be snared in the saved-sinner complex that some protestants* not only advocate but try cast as a spell in their full-blooded fashion as witches on others. This so is why and how Catholics are the 'greener pastures' for them wherein 'wolving' is fair game and crawling as wolf is a venue to fame . . . and this all because their Lord Jesus hung the "Great Commision" on them to change the world around them instead of their own mind [wherein only they can reach heaven on earth].

* After this I owe an apology to my many great American friends in that I am only pointing at the evangelistic movement here for which America is known all over the world, and for which it is also disliked by many or most.

And please notice this line:
Quote:
Commandments of God, and the words of 'Jesus'
wherein liberty is the aim of his claim instead of the saved sinner complex that they must maintain (bolding is mine to show the paradox in it).
Chili is offline  
Old 05-28-2013, 01:45 PM   #127
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Birmingham UK
Posts: 4,876
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson View Post

BTW, where's the evidence that Constantine ordered Eusebius (or anyone else) to produce 50 bibles? What primary source supports this idea?

Jeffrey
Eusebius' vita-constantine Book IV chapters XXXVI
Quote:
VICTOR CONSTANTINUS, MAXIMUS AUGUSTUS, to Eusebius.


"It happens, through the favoring providence of God our Saviour, that great numbers have united themselves to the most holy church in the city which is called by my name. It seems, therefore, highly requisite, since that city is rapidly advancing in prosperity in all other respects, that the number of churches should also he increased. Do you, therefore, receive with all readiness my determination on this behalf. I have thought it expedient to instruct your Prudence to order fifty copies of the sacred Scriptures, the provision and use of which you know to be most needful for the instruction of the Church, to be written on prepared parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient, portable form, by professional transcribers thoroughly practiced in their art. The catholicus of the diocese has also received instructions by letter from our Clemency to be careful to furnish all things necessary for the preparation of such copies; and it will be for you to take special care that they be completed with as little delay as possible. You have authority also, in virtue of this letter, to use two of the public carriages for their conveyance, by which arrangement the copies when fairly written will most easily be forwarded for my personal inspection; and one of the deacons of your church may be intrusted with this service, who, on his arrival here, shall experience my liberality. God preserve you, beloved brother!"

Andrew Criddle
andrewcriddle is offline  
Old 05-28-2013, 02:49 PM   #128
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 3,058
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewcriddle View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson View Post

BTW, where's the evidence that Constantine ordered Eusebius (or anyone else) to produce 50 bibles? What primary source supports this idea?

Jeffrey
Eusebius' vita-constantine Book IV chapters XXXVI
Quote:
VICTOR CONSTANTINUS, MAXIMUS AUGUSTUS, to Eusebius.


"It happens, through the favoring providence of God our Saviour, that great numbers have united themselves to the most holy church in the city which is called by my name. It seems, therefore, highly requisite, since that city is rapidly advancing in prosperity in all other respects, that the number of churches should also he increased. Do you, therefore, receive with all readiness my determination on this behalf. I have thought it expedient to instruct your Prudence to order fifty copies of the sacred Scriptures, the provision and use of which you know to be most needful for the instruction of the Church, to be written on prepared parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient, portable form, by professional transcribers thoroughly practiced in their art. The catholicus of the diocese has also received instructions by letter from our Clemency to be careful to furnish all things necessary for the preparation of such copies; and it will be for you to take special care that they be completed with as little delay as possible. You have authority also, in virtue of this letter, to use two of the public carriages for their conveyance, by which arrangement the copies when fairly written will most easily be forwarded for my personal inspection; and one of the deacons of your church may be intrusted with this service, who, on his arrival here, shall experience my liberality. God preserve you, beloved brother!"

Andrew Criddle
Interesting that the rescript presupposes that there were Christians and Christian churches already in existence before the production of these ordered texts and that the texts themselves will be copies of a corpus of sacred scripture that existed before Eusebius and was not invented by him.

Jeffrey
Jeffrey Gibson is offline  
Old 05-28-2013, 03:52 PM   #129
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: seattle, wa
Posts: 9,337
Default

Was that ever in doubt? Sort of like needing an alphabet to manufacture books. Is that controversial too? Feet for shoes? To be Jewish to adore Chinese food. Maybe not the last one.
stephan huller is offline  
Old 05-28-2013, 04:11 PM   #130
Contributor
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: nowhere
Posts: 15,747
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewcriddle View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson View Post

BTW, where's the evidence that Constantine ordered Eusebius (or anyone else) to produce 50 bibles? What primary source supports this idea?

Jeffrey
Eusebius' vita-constantine Book IV chapters XXXVI
Quote:
VICTOR CONSTANTINUS, MAXIMUS AUGUSTUS, to Eusebius.


"It happens, through the favoring providence of God our Saviour, that great numbers have united themselves to the most holy church in the city which is called by my name. It seems, therefore, highly requisite, since that city is rapidly advancing in prosperity in all other respects, that the number of churches should also he increased. Do you, therefore, receive with all readiness my determination on this behalf. I have thought it expedient to instruct your Prudence to order fifty copies of the sacred Scriptures, the provision and use of which you know to be most needful for the instruction of the Church, to be written on prepared parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient, portable form, by professional transcribers thoroughly practiced in their art. The catholicus of the diocese has also received instructions by letter from our Clemency to be careful to furnish all things necessary for the preparation of such copies; and it will be for you to take special care that they be completed with as little delay as possible. You have authority also, in virtue of this letter, to use two of the public carriages for their conveyance, by which arrangement the copies when fairly written will most easily be forwarded for my personal inspection; and one of the deacons of your church may be intrusted with this service, who, on his arrival here, shall experience my liberality. God preserve you, beloved brother!"

Andrew Criddle
Interesting that the rescript presupposes that there were Christians and Christian churches already in existence before the production of these ordered texts and that the texts themselves will be copies of a corpus of sacred scripture that existed before Eusebius and was not invented by him.

Jeffrey
Let me be the first to assert that Eusebius, writing a fanta-history of Constantine, retrojected christianity into the past. It follows that if there were churches before then, they would need bibles, so Eusebius invents the production of 50 bibles for the phantom pre-Constantinian churches. I can't support these assertions with evidence, but you can't prove I'm wrong, so I'm free to maintain this fantasy impervious of your bound-to-fail attempts to show the "error of my way".

:moonie:
spin is offline  
 

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:51 AM.

Top

This custom BB emulates vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2015, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.