Posted: Jun 15, 2017 6:17 pm
Thank you for the link Reality Rules.
Yup, Dr. Price is an excellent writer, and I am a fan of his many accomplishments. However, I do not agree with you, apparently, that Dr. Price's text addresses my question of how anyone knows anything about "Paul"?
Here is a quote from Dr. Price's book, from your link above,
This statement to me, is nonsense. How can anyone attest to Marcion's father's beliefs? We know absolutely nothing, first hand, about Marcion, himself, yet, we supposedly know that circa 150 CE, his father was a Christian? Yes, Lucian of Samosata, circa 150 CE did write about extraterrestrial space travel, but does that demonstrate that the ancient Greeks understood the fundamentals of rocketry, and knew how to construct a vehicle that could escape the planet's atmosphere, land on the moon, without crashing, and then return to earth? How stupid would it appear, were I or anyone else to draw that conclusion, based on Lucian's celebrated work of fiction? Don't you think it would be fundamentally wrong, for someone to claim that, since the Chinese first exploited the combination of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate--"gunpowder", and since the Chinese traveled the Silk route, that therefore, the Greeks had a combustible fuel source for their nascent rocket program--ergo the claim that Lucian had collaborated with his contemporaries, Marcus Aurelius and Claudius Ptolemy, to create a secret launch capability, technically unsurpassed until 04 October 1957?
That's the way I interpret Dr. Price's statement:
His opinion is pure conjecture, devoid of facts. Where's his evidence? How would Dr. Price know about Marcion's writings? No one knows Marcion's writings. They don't exist. But, P46 does exist. I renew my request for a response to my submission to the forum a couple days ago on this forum. Let's focus our energy analyzing things that do exist, instead of waxing prophetic about things that don't exist.
Yup, Dr. Price is an excellent writer, and I am a fan of his many accomplishments. However, I do not agree with you, apparently, that Dr. Price's text addresses my question of how anyone knows anything about "Paul"?
Here is a quote from Dr. Price's book, from your link above,
Marcion’s father was an early Christian.
This statement to me, is nonsense. How can anyone attest to Marcion's father's beliefs? We know absolutely nothing, first hand, about Marcion, himself, yet, we supposedly know that circa 150 CE, his father was a Christian? Yes, Lucian of Samosata, circa 150 CE did write about extraterrestrial space travel, but does that demonstrate that the ancient Greeks understood the fundamentals of rocketry, and knew how to construct a vehicle that could escape the planet's atmosphere, land on the moon, without crashing, and then return to earth? How stupid would it appear, were I or anyone else to draw that conclusion, based on Lucian's celebrated work of fiction? Don't you think it would be fundamentally wrong, for someone to claim that, since the Chinese first exploited the combination of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate--"gunpowder", and since the Chinese traveled the Silk route, that therefore, the Greeks had a combustible fuel source for their nascent rocket program--ergo the claim that Lucian had collaborated with his contemporaries, Marcus Aurelius and Claudius Ptolemy, to create a secret launch capability, technically unsurpassed until 04 October 1957?
That's the way I interpret Dr. Price's statement:
"mixed up"? One phantom's notes confounded with another's ? Utterly absurd.It appears that Marcion’s writings got mixed up with Paul’s
His opinion is pure conjecture, devoid of facts. Where's his evidence? How would Dr. Price know about Marcion's writings? No one knows Marcion's writings. They don't exist. But, P46 does exist. I renew my request for a response to my submission to the forum a couple days ago on this forum. Let's focus our energy analyzing things that do exist, instead of waxing prophetic about things that don't exist.