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Dr. MacDonald - Eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood is Not Jewish. Does He Say More about it than Steve Campbell in Historical Accuracy?
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Porphyry

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August 31, 2024 - 1:54 pm

I don’t know. Denis MacDonald apparently has ** you do not have permission to see this link ** where he seems to defend just the link that Dan MacClellan denies (between the Eucharist in John and Euripides’s Bacchae)–though focused specifically on John, rather than Paul.

You can see him discuss it ** you do not have permission to see this link **, alongside Carl Ruck. He mentions having a student who deafened the thesis with lots of data, but he doesn’t name the student.

I’ve downloaded the book, but don’t know when I will get around to it.

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Colin Milton

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August 31, 2024 - 3:15 pm

What’s to understand?

Only God can be an immortal being. Therefore for the mortal being to acquire eternal life, they must acquire the immortal being within themselves by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of an immortal being. Well, that’s not at all verbose enough for Catholics.

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August 31, 2024 - 3:26 pm

Therefore for the mortal being to acquire eternal life, they must acquire the immortal being within themselves by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of an immortal being..

Steefen
I say you do not have evidence for that.

Anne Rice in her vampire books only have the vampire victims sucking the blood of the vampire to get vampire-immortality.

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August 31, 2024 - 3:57 pm
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Steefen
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August 31, 2024 - 5:28 pm

I haven’t spent years studying the topic. I liked Frank Langella’s Dracula with Laurence Olivier.

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Steefen
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August 31, 2024 - 5:39 pm

Colin,
In the short video above, MacDonald agrees with you.

The Video:
It is not just eat flesh as you would eat bread, but chew/munch my flesh.

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August 31, 2024 - 5:43 pm

For the topic of the title, I, Steve Campbell, author of Historical Accuracy focus on the verses in Hebrew scriptures referring to cannibalism. Dennis does not do that.

Second, I would not think Dionysus trumps Osiris or Serapis.

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August 31, 2024 - 5:52 pm

Thumb down on this. The cannibalism in the Lord’s Supper is more tied to Mary eating her son in Wars of the Jews, Book 6, Chapter 3, Section 4.
Stephen Campbell, author of
Historical Accuracy

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August 31, 2024 - 6:25 pm

Compendium of the Emerald Tablets: A Beginner’s Guide by Billy Carson could be an upcoming book for me.

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