Jesus is to John the Baptist in Qumran as Simon Magus (Paul) is to Saul (Qumran)
Simon Magus claimed he was "apparently suffering on the cross but not really" and that Jesus may have been absent from the 12... Some of the 12 disciples has been disciples of John the Baptist so they agreed to recognize Simon Magus/Paul...but the Three top disciples couldn't handle that Simon Magus/Paul did not require circumcision. But at that point Jesus was the central character of both groups...
the Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul By Robert M. Price
Justin Martyr, in his voluminous writings, never mentions Paul. When he is mentioned by various writers, Paul has nothing distinctive to say, is a pale shadow and obedient lackey of the Twelve, as in Acts.
When Ignatius, Polycarp, and 1 Clement (all much too blithely taken for genuine early
second-century writings, in my opinion) make reference to Pauline letters, as Bauer
noted, they sound almost like an ill-prepared student trying to fake his way through a
discussion of a book he neglected to read. 1 Clement (47: 1) appears to have thought
there was but a single Pauline letter to Corinth. Ignatius (Ephesians 12:2) somehow
imagined that Paul had eulogized the Ephesians in every one of his epistles. Polycarp
thought there were several letters to Philippi (Philippians 3:2) and that all Paul's letters
mentioned the excellent Philippians (11 :3).
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SIMON MAGUS AND MARCION
TWO FIGURES OF PAUL
Kunsoo Paul Choi
Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
May 2003
Paul was deliberately attacked under the names o f Simon Magus and Marcion.
Why and in what capacity did Paul’s opponents use the names of Simon and Marcion to
attack him?
the Marcionite Christians,
according to some scholars, allegedly outnumbered the Roman “orthodox” Christians for
some time.
Heresiologists attempted to link Marcion with Simon via Cerdo, a Syriac Gnostic.
As Justin connected Marcion with Simon in a certain way by placing his name, along
with Menander, in the same section where Simon's name appears (1 Apol 26), so did
Irenaeus connect him with Simon in his AH 1.27.4: “... We have necessarily made
mention o f him (=Marcion) at present that you might know that all those who in any way
adulterate the truth and do injury to the preaching of the Church are the disciples and
successors o f Simon, the magician o f Samaria...Did he claim Paul as his only Apostle (and teacher)
because Paul was really Simon in disguise as the Pseudo-Clementines implicitly claimed
(and as H. Detering also argues)?
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