Tag: Mark

• Understanding Jesus: Separating Faith from Early Christian Influence

  

  If you grew up in (or are currently a member of) a protestant church, you have probably been allowed to believe that your faith has been relatively unchanged throughout the millennia. Catholicism (your church’s grand-pappy) has had a colorful history filled with all manner of exciting events among them the councils. The catholic councils would…

  Timos Trismegistus

  January 29, 2025

  Early Christian Beliefs, Early Christian Groups, Early Church Characters / Personalities, First Century Figures, History, Judaism, Paul, Rome, Scripture

  bible, Christian, Christianity, Church, Daimon, Didache, Ebionite, Essene, Greek, Historical, Jerusalem, Jesus, Mark, Merkava, Merkavah, New, Paul, Peter, Plato, Platonism, Testament

• The Lost Gospel: Q

  

  First of all, No. This has nothing to do with the conspiracy theory bearing the same letter as a name. During studies of Christian origins, one is very quickly guaranteed to run into the term Q-source quite often when discussing the synoptic gospels. Q stands for “Quelle”, the German word for “source.” It is a…

  Timos Trismegistus

  August 8, 2024

  Early Christian Beliefs, Early Christian Groups, History, Paul, Rome, Scripture

  bible, Christian, Christianity, Gospel, Hieropolis, Historical, Jesus, Lost, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New, Origin, Papias, Paul, Q, Testament, Thomas

• Papias of Hieropolis

  

  Papias of Hieropolis is more than just an amazing name for your next child; he may be one of the most important players in early Christian history that you have (probably) never heard of. It is through him that what little we know about the author of the “main” gospel, Mark, comes to us today.…

  Timos Trismegistus

  August 5, 2023

  Early Church Characters / Personalities, History, Paul, Scripture

  Apostle, canonical, Christian, Christianity, Gospel, Hieropolis, Historical, History, Mark, New, Papias, Paul, Testament