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September 18th 2009, 11:13 AM #1
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Male - ChristianIgnatius tradition
I'm sure we all know the story Mark 9 where Jesus has a child on his lap and the rumor is that this was Ignatius. My question is where does this legend come from? Why is it heald as untrustworthy? And what reason is there to place the birth of ignatuis at 36CE?
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September 18th 2009, 09:11 PM #2
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Male - ChristianRe: Ignatius tradition
As far as I know:
1. Popular Christian tradition wanting to connect everything in Scripture and Church history to everything else.
2. Not untrustworthy; just unlikely because of the average lifespan of the period and Ignatius' death in c. 117
3. None, unless you want to count the legend itself as evidence. The problem with that is there are a lot of crap traditions in the ECFs, such as Jesus living to be over 50, and it's hard to tell which of the ones (of those that have no Scriptural support either way) we can take seriously.
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September 21st 2009, 09:59 PM #3
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Male - ChristianRe: Ignatius tradition
The ECF were not infallible - I'm not aware of anyone who thinks the statement about Jesus' age is correct - but I've never seen a blanket assertion before that there are "lots of crap traditions" in them.
AD 36 would be a little late for him to be held by Jesus.
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September 23rd 2009, 01:34 PM #4
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Yeah, I exaggerated. Sorry. I was feeling a bit pissy and depressed when I wrote that.
Originally posted by One Bad Pig
The ECF were not infallible - I'm not aware of anyone who thinks the statement about Jesus' age is correct - but I've never seen a blanket assertion before that there are "lots of crap traditions" in them.
AD 36 would be a little late for him to be held by Jesus.
You're right....the compass of existence held more than my text-books had revealed, more than I had ever dreamed of. In short I lost my superiority, and this, though I was not then aware of it, is the first step towards finding God.-A.J. Cronin
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