red pill on early christian spread plshttps://twitter.com/randall_roark/status/1012343887954837504 …
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Replying to @TerraristLifter
I followed a few classes on early Christianity, in the Religion/Theology dept. of my uni. The believers tended to simply get up and leave. Since Bauer, the Church History taught in universities is almost the opposite of that taught by the Church.
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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi
Studying the history of Early Christianity is essentially studying movements and forms of belief later termed "heresies" - in most cases the original form of christianity which can be found in a given place, is heretical, even when the Church History mentions apostolic origin.
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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi @Randall_Roark
Yes, but what became Orthodoxy was far more interesting than most heresies and you can generally evaluate another's intelligence by whether thought they had stumbled on occult knowledge when they first read the Wikipedia page of the Gospel of Thomas.
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I once wrote an essay on whether or not Thomas contains gnostic material, only to conclude that it does NOT, even though it had rewritings by gnostic-adjacent ascetic sects throughout the 2nd and 3rd century.
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