"In the beginning was the Word"
Several months of extensive research using a Null Hypothesis, has yielded a result. The research was never intended to reach any type of conclusion. The evidence that was found, was simply the evidence.
After extensive exploration in a pure sense, one conclusion became crystal clear. This concept is entirely supported by evidence, and it displays itself with unusually high precision throughout the entire written works of Christianity. This concept, will be the subject of a book tentatively called "Evolutions of Christianity."
This book will discuss every theological construct between Philo of Alexandria, and Catholicism. It will discuss the catalyst event, that caused Christianity to be brought into existence. It will discuss the drift of very early pre-Christian philosophy, through a set of "evolutions" that eventually leads to Catholicism.
It is my hope, that by the end of this book, the reader will have a perfectly clear, completely supported, defensible, and entirely consistent understanding of Christianity and Jesus. This book will overturn outright some of the current theological understandings of Christianity, while in some cases, early Catholic understandings will be vindicated as completely accurate for their time.
Jesus was a part of a different concept entirely that found new life in the first century throughout the Roman Empire. Every aspect of Jesus, can be explained through this initial concept. However, the concept itself, was far older than Christianity.
Glad to have found your blog, X. I haven't paid blogs much attention in the past, but they're really starting to intrigue me now. I'm hoping this is going to be a useful supplement to you YT channel. Your videos can cover a lot of ground, it'd be nice to have some extra resources to help solidify the content. :) I love the period you're concerning yourself with. As someone raised an Irish Catholic I can say that the closest we ever got to these facts was to be told that even though the bible was the 'word of God', it was written down by men. More than 3 decades later I'm still fascinated to discover just who those men were.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to finding out more!
This blogging stuff is confusing to me and I may not be able to find my way second time around.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I wanted to draw your attention to the writings of Hermann Detering who argues (if I catch his drift) that Marcion or one of his mates wrote the 'authentic' Pauline Epistles based on the character of Simon the Magician mentioned in Acts and, I think, alluded to in 'Paul's' letters.
He further argues that the proto orthodox party heavily redacted these letters to try and eliminate the gnostic content - though ghosts of gnostic philosophy in Paul can be detected.
These 'Pauline' letters were adopted by the proto orthodox because the Simon connection had not been picked up or lost to the mists of time.
So- instead of Marcion redacting Luke's gospel - Luke's gospel as we have it is a redaction by the proto orthodox of Marcion's gospel hence a very late date for GL.
Get that book out ASP and thaks for the videos.
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