• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Meek, you say? Because he sure did talk about himself being the son of God an awful lot.

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      8 months ago

      Actually, he never does. The closest he comes is telling others that that’s what they’re free to call him. He calls himself the son of man.

      All still bullshit, but I like to be accurate about bullshit.

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          8 months ago

          He never blatantly says it, but there’s definitely a “wink wink, nudge nudge” thing going on. That said, plenty of early Christians didn’t consider him THE son of god, just A son of god.

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            8 months ago

            It’s kind of hard to know much about what early Christians thought, mostly because of how much of early Christianity was rewritten and re-translated over and over again.

            But what we do know is kind of interesting

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              8 months ago

              We know a fair amount of what the Gnostics believed because we have found very early copies of Gnostic gospels. But it’s debated about whether or not to call them Christians.