Alan Pennie

Indeed. It really couldn't be resolved without Jewish Christians giving up their ancestral religion.

"It's holy as well as a hobby.'

In other words it was probably impossible in a city without a sizeable Jewish minority, and Paul seems to have recognised this and simply tried to minimise the scandal.

"The Poor of Jerusalem" were the electric monks and sin eaters of Paul's time.

Paul wasn't keen on anyone eating meat which had been offered to idols and I dunno how you'd avoid that unless you dealt exclusively with kosher butchers, never ate out, and avoided the works canteen.

It seemed to make sense at the time.

Yep. He was a logical person as well as a visionary.

Lucky they didn't say *up to 101%*.
A tiny change which would make a huge difference.

A good point.

Category errors baby!
I can't get enough
Of all these category errors in my life...

Proof that Latin speakers weren't theologically total dumbasses provided they were African.

It does make sense as well as being freaky. As a child Jesus found it more difficult to get his human and divine natures into full alignment.

He had a good deal in common with Anthony from *It's A Good Life*.

It's both funny and sad that a lot of people thought Judaism was true but wouldn't become full converts because circumcision would get them ridiculed at the gym.

Yep.
Jewish religious ideas were really attractive to gentiles at that time, circumcision not so much.

Everyone from Nazareth is a fruit loop versus no they're not.

Could have been any time in the last 10 years.

Never a dull moment with Kemi.

That was slightly unkind.

Now imagining The Council of Nicaea and its sponsoring angel rejecting the book for excessive prolixity.
Perhaps an epitome was needed.

It was very well known into the medieval period.
Not surprisingly.
It's weirdly fascinating.

A depressing thought.

Mark is such a weirdo.
I've read that the early church found him a bit embarrassing and hoped to replace him with Matthew.
But somehow that never quite happened, happily.

Presumably because they were artefacts of advanced biology whose ancestors were lab bred.

It was one of the amusing aspects of the *Planet of The Apes* series that the intelligent apes had this the other way around.

Having unsuccessfully attempted to get himself elected pope of Rome by investing a great deal of money in the Roman church he ended up a good deal more famous than most early popes.
So perhaps he had the last laugh.

*Marcion. Though I'm sure Matcion was an interesting guy too.

When the good and the just disagree they should be mindful of the lurking tertius gaudens.

There are definitely some edge cases.
There was more argument about Revelation than about the rest of The NT.
Thank God it made it so that we all got to know about The Four Horsemen, The Number of The Beast, and all the rest!

I think that's pretty mainstream.