I will have to give this a look.Note 72:To be clear, my point is not that 1 Cor. 2:6–16 influenced the Valentinians, but that the Valentinians “influenced” Paul. Yet this was not only true of the Valentinians. “Paul” (or better, “Pauls”) was (were) a literary fabrication of the
second century.
Why the mention of the Valentinians is important? Because not coincidentially they argued for a celestial crucifixion. As the link proves, we were talking about Valentinians placing the crucifixion of the superior Christ in heaven (outer space) even before that Droge had uploaded the article on academia.edu.
That answers indirectly to your objection that docetism is not mythicism. The case of the Valentinians implies that docetism, even in a sect who is from long time apparently a historicist sect, implies the mythicist location in outer space of the crucifixion of the "superior Christ".
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:59 am