02-08-2010, 05:50 PM
I've had this book for quite a long time:
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If Martin Palmer is right, then there was at some early point, a kind of synthesis between Syriac Christianity, and Daoism.
The scrolls are there to show that this is true.
I'm not saying that I endorse it, I'm saying that it's historically true.
Perhaps these Nestorian Christians were trying to Evangelize by meeting the Daoists at a kind of half way point.
"Here's Jesus (Yeshua-Yesu) and He's the REAL (and only) Immortal One".
Could have been as simple as that.
Shlama, S.Q.
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If Martin Palmer is right, then there was at some early point, a kind of synthesis between Syriac Christianity, and Daoism.
The scrolls are there to show that this is true.
I'm not saying that I endorse it, I'm saying that it's historically true.
Perhaps these Nestorian Christians were trying to Evangelize by meeting the Daoists at a kind of half way point.
"Here's Jesus (Yeshua-Yesu) and He's the REAL (and only) Immortal One".
Could have been as simple as that.
Shlama, S.Q.