On Fri, 2 May 2008 14:53:04 -0700 (PDT), Roger Pearse
wrote:

On 2 May, 17:21, George Hammond wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008 06:45:55 -0700 (PDT),Roger Pearse

wrote:

[Hammond]
* *And finally, Tatian's famous DIATESSARON (c 150 - 160) is
a historically famous Gospel harmony. *In it, Tatian,
combined Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John into a single
narrative. *The historic prominence of this work from 155ad.
alone, is testimony that the 4-Gospel Canon was well known
and widely accepted by mid second century ad.

[Roger Pearse]
Perhaps.

[Hammond]
* *No perhaps about it! *The DIATESSARON was the standard
Gospel text of the Syria Christian Church for 200 years.

[Roger Pearse]
(You mean the *Syriac* church, I think). It was removed from all the
churches by Rabbula, who substituted the separated gospels, and the
Syriac text is now lost. The text is known to us from an unreliable
Arabic translation, plus quotations in Ephraem Syrus' Commentary on
the Diatessaron, itself only rediscovered in Syriac (an Armenian
translation was previously known) in the last 50 years. The fact that
the most eminent of all Syriac writers wrote a commentary on it tells
us how important it was, and backs up the claim to pre-eminence in
that language group.

[Hammond]
It's dating to 155ad is indisputable. *

[Roger Pearse]
Much is obscure about the Diatessaron, because of the problem above.
It isn't even certain whether Tatian composed it in Greek in Rome or
in Syriac after his return to the East after the death of Justin
Martyr. As such its date of composition, while certainly mid-to-
late-2nd century, remains uncertain.

[Hammond]
See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatessaron

[[Roger Pearse]
I'm afraid Wikipedia is an unreliable source of information on things
to do with Christian origins, tho (mainly because of the atheists).

All the best,

Roger Pearse



[Hammond]
Since I have the delightful advantage of being in
(disputed) possession of the world's only scientific proof
of God (including the 4-Gospel Canon and the Trinity) it is
with some fascination that I look back on the events of the
Apostolic Age.
Having said that, I find that the history of the 4-Gospel
Canon seems rather mundane and far from mysterious, since it
post dates the classical age of Greece during which
Hippocrates announced that Man had 4-personalities... the
4-Humors. In scientific hindsight then it is not surprising
that the 4-Gospel Canon emerged during the halcyon days of
the relatively enlightened Roman empire.
What I find far more astounding is that the "Trinity"
appeared during the patristic age. The Trinity, the SPOG
shows, is scientifically based on the Cybernetic feedback
loop, is a sophisticated psychological concept, and
incidentally is manifest (embodied) in the Three Branches of
Government which is a universal structure in all 250
governments of the world today.
The ancient Greek and Roman governments had only a very
loosely defined "3 branches of government" although I think
it was generally recognized even then....Executive
(emperor), Legislative (senate), and Judiciary (courts of
law)).
What I have been unable to pin down is where and when did
the concept of the Trinity emerge in Christian theology.
True, Jesus says to baptize in the name of the "Father, Son
and Holy Ghost", so the structure must have been known
during his time, but I am still unclear as to where and when
the movement towards a "Trinity of God" in Christian
theology began in anteNicene Christianity.
Do you have any views on this; who started it, how did
the movement get started, and when was it finally canonized
as official doctrine?
This is of particular interest today in that the Moslems
deny the Trinity and the Koran accuses Christians of
"polytheism" and believing in "3 Gods", which of course is a
distortion of the Trinity.
At any rate, the discovery of the proof of the Trinity,
is going to be another blow for the Moslems and the Koran
and will doublessly be a Bible vs. Koran issue after the
discovery of the SPOG is recognized.
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