"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Herman Melville
2025.02.02 04:52 Junior_Insurance7773 "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Herman Melville
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2025.02.02 04:52 throwaway273890 I got asked out today by someone 2x my age and now I feel guilty
I (19F) was at work today when a regular customer walked in. He’s always really nice and I genuinely enjoy our conversations together. He even brings my boss and I baked goods sometimes. Today, we were having a conversation while I was checking him out at the register, and he asked me if I’d like to get coffee with him sometime. He sounded very nervous and kind of stuttered a little bit. He is twice my age, so in my head I thought I had to say no. I responded and told him I’m pretty busy with school right now, but thanked him for asking. We finish the transaction and honestly I can’t remember if he said something after that or not, I was pretty shocked that he asked me out.
After that happened, I felt guilty because he’s really nice and I enjoy talking to him. He’s a pretty nice guy and I don’t want him to feel embarrassed that I said no. And the thing is, I don’t even think I would mind getting coffee with him? He’s fun to talk to, but the age gap is socially unacceptable in most instances. I look a bit older than I am, so maybe he thought I was older? I just feel really guilty and hope he doesn’t feel embarrassed or like he can’t come to the store anymore.
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2025.02.02 04:52 Star_wuvs_u Will anyone ever love me?
I should be more than aware that my worries of not being loved or experiencing life as everyone else, is kind of nonsense, as I'm still young and in school. But one major thing that keeps me awake at night is the thought that I will never be loved. For context, I'm FTM and 16 years old. I've had a girlfriend before but the relationship didn't last very long. I'm stealth in school and keep the topic of my biological sex to myself. I fear that if I were honest about my gender, I would get bullied and not have as many friends as I have now. I also worry that when the time comes, when they find me out, or I'd tell a close friend, that they wouldn't respect me or want to be my friend anymore. Most importantly, I fear that my gender makes me repulsive and that I would never experience true love. I see people my age get in and out of relationships all the time, while I'm just left out. Is it just me who feels this way?
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I am a current business major and am seriously thinking about changing my major to elementary education. I don’t find my major interesting or fulfilling and have always loved working with kids. I have teachers in my family and know the job has a lot of ups and downs but was wondering if anyone here had any advice?
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2025.02.02 04:52 Impossible_Leader_80 In the Shadow Of The Omnissiah Chapter 4
Jura woke slowly, as he always did. But this was not like a normal waking. He was receiving an alert through his communicative instruments. He slowly untangles his limbs from around his body, taking care not yet to wake the ‘sleeping’ Skitaria. He pulled out a screen, letting it sync to his communications.
[Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl will be visiting Pupa II within the standard week. By the order of Pupa II Fabricator General Aluvas Delta-Yondres-XVIII, All available Tech-Adepts on the planet must make themselves presentable and prepare to potentially meet with the Archmagos Dominus. This is a matter of great import]
The Magos, if he had biological optics still, would have blinked upon seeing this alert. This is…unprecedented. He opens various datastreams. He had slept far longer than he had intended. Nearly a whole standard day had passed in his rest. The Skitaria too, appeared to rest, but given the fact that a soldier of The Omnissiah cannot rest willingly, it is more likely some form of meditation or trance.
His cogitators returned an interesting idea. All Tech-Adepts making themselves presentable before the end of the standard week. That was a good reason to visit the baths that had been a matter of interest to him and his Skitaria. A very good reason. Indeed, now was as good a time as any. After all, the Archmagos Dominus was just as likely to arrive very early as they were to arrive very late. He had heard much about Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl. Not all of it was flattering. He looked to his side to observe the ‘sleeping’ Skitaria. She did not ‘wake’ or move, but her vitals were healthy. She is 19% healthier, 12% more energetic, 4% more responsive, and 80% more emotional than she was when she first arrived multiple standard day-night cycles ago. This is good.
Slowly, curiously, he reached many limbs toward her. Her faux-sleep did not break, but the Servo-Skull followed his movements curiously. A single cognition mechadendrite plugged to one of many ports, transmitting an order to wake.
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The Skitaria was meditating at the time. A slow, trancelike, endless chain of Lingua Technis reciting in her mind, drawn from a large library of scriptures she had heard and saved in her mind. These litanies and mantras are meant to guide a servant of the Cult Mechanicus, be they soldier or priest, in equal measure. Haixia-T6-Kappa feels that she needs that guidance more than ever. She has not felt so much in her entire life. This is all quite new to her.
When the command comes through, it overwrites the data of her prayers, forming a message that takes up most of the thinking space of her cogitators. A message commanding her to wake. She wakes. Her optics reactivate in full, all 7 of them, and her head twitches as she feels the mechadendrite in her neck. Her Master does seem to use that method frequently, and while it isn’t the most pleasant, it is necessary. Speaking of the Master, The priest himself is standing nearby, looking silently at her as she wakes. She brings her clawed feet down, bringing her four arms down to her sides once more, and she stands.
“Master,” she started in her typical tone. “What do you wish of me?” she asked cautiously. Her master presented a screen reading the alert message. “We are to be made presentable. Do you remember the bath I spoke of?”
The Skitaria however, barely seemed to hear him. She stared silently at the screen. She had never heard of Belisarius Cawl. However, he is an Archmagos-Dominus. The best of the best, just short of a Fabricator-General. She and her Master could be in the presence of a figure so important as to need announcement to the whole planet. That is daunting, to say the least. “We bathe…today?”
“We do. Follow, And do as I say while we are in the presence of others, please” he said simply. He shuffled to the door on many legs, and she followed along easily. Truthfully, the skitaria needed the bath gravely. Almost every joint of hers was caked with grime and machine oil, and her black hair was crusty and slick with fluid. Jura himself, admittedly, was not much better. He appeared as though he had not washed his robe in almost a sol cycle, and an augmetic along his spinal shell was rusting in an unsightly manner. He would need maintenance beyond just standard water cleaning in a bath. Hopefully he knew an Enginseer who may help with that.
Riding another elevator up to the 262nd floor, Haixia stood very close to her master. There were other Tech-Adepts in the elevator, and it was quite cramped. She needed to stay close to Jura for both of their safeties. At least, that’s what she tells herself. She knows she’s starting to feel something unusual. She chooses to ignore it. If only she had the Neurovaults of some of the tech-priesthood, such that she could quarantine her emotions and thoughts, choosing if and how to feel them. That would be nice, probably.
Jura himself droned a quiet prayer throughout the ride upward. Haixia could not understand that form of Lingua Technis, but she clasped her hands together alongside him, silently doing as her Master does, minus the prayer itself. A mechadendrite lays itself on her shoulder comfortingly. She holds that position for the rest of the duration of the ride upward.
Exiting the elevator, the soldier followed loyally close behind her master. Other priests seemed to have had the same idea to go to the baths in preparation for the visiting of such an important figure. Haixia still felt ill-at-ease with the idea of bathing. A soldier is meant to get dirty. Is cleaning then not a denial of her status as a soldier? Perhaps this is Jura’s attempt to explain to her how he perceives her. As more than a soldier. However, the Skitaria is not sure she wants to be more than a soldier. Of course, the idea of being more than a soldier had never occurred to her before she met him, and it certainly sounded more tempting than before. She stood back as the door opened.
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Jura entered the vast room slowly, ushering his soldier to follow him closely. The Balneum Sanctus is large, and uniquely bright. There were 20 enormous baths of hot water in the room, and countless benches and cleaning stations along the sides. Cleaning Servitors were all around, cleaning the floor and assisting a few guests of the bath already in the room, as is their duty. He turned to his soldier, briefly looking at the numerous other priests nearby. For some reason, today he felt something rare. nervousness.
“To the cleaning station. We must cut away our robes. We will receive new ones when we are done” he explained. The soldier, of course, looked unsure of this, although it might be hard to tell, given the fact that he could neither read her eyes nor mouth. A member of the Mechanicus rarely leaves their robes or jacket. Indeed, removing one’s robes or jacket is difficult in itself, as they are almost always connected through by multiple cables and additional augmetics. Jura produced a pair of bladed mechadendrites, holding them up peaceably. A third limb pointed to a small offshoot area with a ragged privacy curtain. “Would you like my assistance in the removal of your jacket, Soldier?”
Haixia stared up at him for a few seconds, her seven optics unreadable. Eventually, she nodded. Were the two of them more human, this might be thought awkward, some might even call it romantic. He wasn’t thinking such things now though. He didn’t know how the soldier thought of it though. He might ask her later. His mechadendrites got to work, cutting away sections where the jacket would not pull away. Areas where tubes connect to armor or flesh ports below the jacket, mostly. When a new jacket or robe is applied, it is akin to a molting. A new layer applied. First the jacket was removed, then most of the equipment, then the suit beneath. A Tech-Soldier laid bare.
He was rather unsurprised at the status of Haixia’s body beneath the jacket and suit. Her skin is pale and scarred with countless augmetic surgeries, woven through in sections with tubes, wire and ports, connected to yet more tubes, wires and ports. Her flesh, or at the parts that could be seen, clung to her bones with nearly no organic muscle, giving her a gaunt and thin undead appearance, not helped in the slightest by the radioactive burns and rashes. There is nothing to be said for her face either. While the mask with her optics had seven lenses, she herself only had 2 augmented eyes. The purpose of the additional lenses in the mask is unclear. The mouth is unseen beneath the rebreather which a soldier needs for all breath, but Jura’s cogitators cannot help but picture a lipless mouth, revealing teeth rotted with radiation and disuse. Her head actually had an unprecedented amount of hair remaining. Dark and semi-short. Usually, Servitors and Skitarii have hair removed so as to provide ease of access to the brain for surgery, and if not losing it intentionally, the radiation they are assaulted by rarely fails to remove any hair they might have. Jura paused in his thought process to allow a new idea. He pondered how to word his next questions.
“My loyal Soldier. What varieties of surgeries have you undergone? Additionally, what is your age?” he asked calmly, still observing her as more equipment not necessary for life-support was removed for cleaning and maintenance. The soldier notably hesitated.
“I will have my combat anniversary in 20 standard cycles, Master, though I do not know my age. As for surgeries…I am a vat-grown soldier. I do know I am non-standard in construction. It has…been a point of alienation and shame for much of my existence, to deviate so much from a blessed design” the skitaria spoke quietly.
This took Jura by surprise. His soldier had not explained anything so personal to him before. And what she said about being non-standard was quite true. She was past the threshold of the Crux Mechanicus, but was not a Skitarii Alpha. She had four arms, a mask with seven optic lenses, a mechadendrite tail, and a personal Servo-Skull. She had hair and signs of having somehow not received the full extent of Skitarii psychosurgeries. She was different, yes. However, it could all be explained, perhaps. Skitarii have no one true standard design. Liberties can be taken in their construction and augmetics by the Genetor in charge of the soldier’s creation. A Skitarii can be held back from promotion by a few factors, as well. It’s possible too, that there are explanations that Jura himself has not considered, or does not know of. He returned to finishing his work on the tech-soldier.
The last of the armor and external non-crucial augmetics were removed from her thin form, and the suit beneath cut away, revealing yet more pale flesh, rashes of radiation, and mechanical insertions. All of this before him might be thought extremely grotesque by a lesser imperial. He was proud to be one of the few to see this sight. Like all Skitarii, she no longer possesses the facilities of intercourse, the procedure of her creation not merely inhibiting but entirely removing a Tech-Soldier’s genitalia and reproductive drive. Instead of such natural body sections, on the lower torso and the pelvis were more ports for various functions. Extractors of waste, fluid intakes, and feeding tube ports which usually would connect to the intake on her backpack. She was quite a piece of work. On her back, a spine-like structure fused into her nervous column directly, irremovable, and at the bottom became the long Mechadendrite tail, tipped in a tri-fingered claw apparatus. It was all very curious.
Her entire leg structures, of course, are replaced with machinery, as is standard of a Tech-Soldier. However, the lower legs were spindly, almost skeletal, ending with distinctly inhuman claw feet, which one might expect of a Sicarian rather than a Skitaria.
“You are highly unique, Haixia-T6-Kappa. I would urge you to take at least a modicum of pride in it. Your shape is as willed by the Omnissiah” He explained. His mechadendrites retracted from her, leaving her to store her armor and augmetics where it all would be cleaned and repaired as needed while the two of them bathed. Jura began to remove his own robe and his non-essential augmetics. His form too, is what many would call bizarre. Below the waist he has no flesh to speak of nor see, for it is all mechanical legs, akin to those of an arachnid or scorpion. This body augmentation is usually used by those of the Dominus path of worship, but there is nothing that restricts their availability to others. Jura had added the augmentation almost 80 standard cycles ago. The rest of his body is, of course, bizarre to most, but unsurprising by tech-adept standards. It is not new to him. Perhaps it would be interesting to his soldier, but she is not likely to stare, lest she seem rude.
He would not submerge much in the waters. He was confident in his modifications being liquid resistant, but there were some things faith and confidence could not guarantee. A vast majority of his augmentations were integral to his life, of course. It is generally known that a tech-priest must live for as long as possible, for they hold vast data that they alone might know. As such, much modification is made with the intent of preservation of life. Jura was not hugely old as to need immense life support assistance, but that was not good enough. He could risk submerging for a small amount of time, but it would not be longer than 30 minutes.
“Find us an available bath, if you would” he asked. The soldier complied silently.
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Nudity is not uncommon in the 42nd Millenium. Attitudes toward it range from neutral to worshipful and all the way back to disgusted. Haixia used to be neutral, but now that her psychocircuitry has been altered and unlocked by her master, and much of her conditioning removed or lessened, she has decided that she is no longer neutral on the idea of nudity. Granted, nudity means near-nothing to her, as a Tech-Soldier is never taught any such things regarding procreation. However, she does know that being seen in this state feels not good. A Skitarii without her armor or weapon is no longer a soldier. She feels some sort of shame or embarrassment at not being a soldier right now.
That aside, she timidly finds a bath that can fit herself and her master and enters slowly. A few baths around the room also had priests in them. There was even a hulking Techmarine being attended by cleaning servitors. The water was collected from the poles of the planet, though the ice was almost all gone at this point of course. The ice caps had been melted with mighty weapons, and most of the radiation had been removed from the water prior to use in the bath. She was not sure whether or not there were rites to recite when cleaning. Hopefully her master would join her soon. He would know what to do.
And her master did come to join her. On 6 insectoid mechanical legs he approached and slowly lowered himself into the bath. With her recently altered cognition, she had to resist the urge to let her gaze wander on his body. He had little skin or flesh to speak of, being smooth and segmented steel all over save for a patch of skin over his heart, his neck and his head. He was bald, of course, but he made it look good in a way she had not seen before. She took her eyes away, instead looking down at her legs, seeing how they distort in the water’s movement. She felt his observation on her, and wondered exactly what he thought of what he saw. There was no indication of his opinion so far.
She began to speak, but her master raised a finger in a quiet gesture. She paused, nodded, and requested a communications binary channel to him, through the Noosphere. She would close her eyes if she could, to assist concentration. Instead of that, she brought her knees up to her chest and pressed her face to the metal of her knees, to obscure her own vision as much as possible. A rare moment of her eyes seeing darkness. It is quite nice. She turned her mind and processors to her conversation with her master.
Communications request accepted-J-K: yes my soldier?-skit- PU- 04280: I have a question. I do not know if I can word it correctly
-J-K: could I connect to your processor through a mechadendrite, then, and read the question in its raw form?
-skit- PU- 04280: …You may”
The soldier felt the prick of a tendril connecting from her master’s palm. She could actually feel him reading the thoughts that she couldn’t assemble right.
-J-K: I…see
-skit- PU- 04280: you do?
-J-K: You want to understand what you mean to me, why I treat you as I do
-skit- PU- 04280: …
-J-K: I…I cannot tell you here or now, Haixia-T6-Kappa. I mean not to hide things from you. It is…complicated
-skit- PU- 04280: I see. Understood Master
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: Oh? And what have we here? A Magos-Secutor with secrets to keep, and an unnaturally-bright Skitaria?
Both the soldier and Magos snapped from their concentration and closed the channel. Haixia stood up in the bath, looking around for who could have broken into a closed Noosphere communication. It could be anyone in the room, but…her attention was drawn to the door. She could hear something approaching.
The other Magi in the chamber noticed too, whatever it was, her master included. All optics and auspex were focused on the door. The door opened, and a towering figure in red robes entered. Huge and entirely inhuman in form. The huge Tech-Priest observed the room, and their gaze found the Skitaria and her master quickly. The eyes beneath the hood were looking elsewhere, but a servo-skull and an auspex on the giant priest were staring right at her. She had a moment of dread, of realization. This is Belisarius Cawl. He had been the one to break into her communications with her master. She wanted to look away, to make it seem like she had nothing to do with him, but his optic sensor suite had seen her reaction, and now the main body’s eyes saw her too. She was in the sights of an Archmagos.
She felt her body begin to move against her will, climbing from the water and moving quickly to the Archmagos’ side. Behind her, she could hear her true master’s call of alarm. She wanted to turn and explain to him, but her body was not currently her own. Once she was within reach, the towering Archmagos leveled a Cognition Mechadendrite to her neck, and she could do nothing as it darted forward and everything went dark.
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Jura watched in dismay as his soldier was hijacked by the newly-arrived Archmagos. This must be Cawl. Why would he arrive on the day of the announcement of his coming? It did not sit right with Jura, although that was not his concern right now. He quickly removed himself from the bath and let his legs carry him to retrieve his soldier.“Archmagos. Unhand my soldier, if you would please”
He looked upward to meet Cawl’s optics as they turned to face him. The Archmagos looked down at him curiously, not letting go of Haixia yet. “I would consider doing that. However, I seek some answers from the two of you, considering the interest I overheard in your conversation. I have analyzed the data of her neurocircuitry, and she can be returned to you. Rest in knowing I seek no conflict with you, Magos Secutor Jura Kineticalis”As Cawl said this, he released the soldier, and Jura reached forward to catch her before she could fall. The huge Archmagos entered the chamber fully and his countless legs carried him to a maintenance area. Jura was about to follow, but he received a Noospheric communication request from the Archmagos. The request accepted itself through some bypass Cawl employed, and Jura elected to carry Haixia back to the bath. He set her upright in the water in a sitting position to appear inconspicuous while communicating with the Archmagos.
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: I have a proposal
-J-K: Go on
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: I wish for you and your soldier to join me on an expedition
-J-K: …Oh?
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: I have been ordered to participate in a crusade to a far point of the galaxy. The Adeptus Administratum recently discovered old and long-long overdue scrolls regarding the establishment of a Forgeworld not registered on any map. An attempt to communicate Astropathically with that world resulted in the deaths of 4 Astropaths. I would like to offer you a position on my ship.
-J-K: And why would you offer me such?
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: simple. You and your soldier are incredibly fascinating, and I believe you could both be of use to me.
-J-K: Then…I believe I have no reason to refuse
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: Correct. You don’t. The ships depart in two terran weeks. I will send the location of the shuttle pad to you when i leave this room.
-J-K: Understood Archmagos. Thank you. May I ask some questions in turn?
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: You may-J-K: Why are you here at the baths? There are other bathing facilities in other complexes. Surely you didn’t come planetside just for me. Another thing. You arrived early, on the same day as the Fabricator General announcing your arrival. Why?-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: Simple answers to both. I wanted some cleaning and maintenance myself prior to departure. As for the second question, Fabricator General Aluvas Delta-Yondres-XVIII did not know of my coming. I forged that announcement before coming planetside.
-J-K: you…forged a message from a Tech-Adept above your position?
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: I did
Jura looked over at the maintenance area where the Archmagos was being disrobed. He quickly elected to look away. The privacy curtain was of standard size, and Belisarius Cawl is not a standard-sized person. What he could see was…unpleasant. Though Jura is a quite loyal Tech-Adept, and describing augmentations of a Tech-Priest as anything other than blessed might be judged heresy enough, even he was off put by the modifications of the Archmagos. The man, if he could still be called such, had long forgone the human form. Only the upper torso was anything resembling human, and the only remaining flesh was the head and a single gloved forearm.
-J-K:...understood. I’ll accept your offer, Archmagos.
Jura felt the Archmagos stare toward him, and he resisted the urge to stare back.
-??? [UNKNOWN USER]: good. enjoy your bath, then. When you conclude the bath, re-arm and re-dress your Skitaria, and follow my upcoming instructions carefully
Jura listened to What the Archmagos said. He did not like it, but he nodded and gave his confirmation.
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Haixia-T6-Kappa woke up slowly. There was an impressive sensation of having been in this position before. She had been redressed in her augmetics, armor and jacket. Curious. How long had she been out, she wondered. What had Archmagos Belisarius Cawl done to her? She focused her optics and started looking around her location. She saw that it was a metal box. She was in a transport container. She could sense the hum of engines, and the datastream was dense with soldierly meditation and trance around her, indicating many other Tech-Soldiers present nearby. So she was being transported alongside other soldiers. Had she been separated from her master by Cawl? Had she been betrayed? There was no sign of her master. There was no way to reach him. Immediately, she felt a panic response oncoming. Her body began to shake within the restraints of the transport container, she could feel strange sounds coming from her vox emitter.
This seemed to catch attention from the other nearby Skitarii. The datastreams of Skit-Code and the Noosphere around her became more aware, going from meditation to preparatory and curious. She could feel some of the other soldiers expressing concern or asking for her status. Their transmissions go right to her processor.
-skitstatus request
-skiterrordetected confirm?
-calm down, skit-PU-04280. You are not in danger
-skiterrordetected confirm?
-skiterrordetected confirm?
-skitstatus request
-skiterrordetected confirm?
-skitstatus request
-skit-PU-04280status update request
-skit-PU-04280 please calm down
This behavior was natural. One soldier in a Skitarii detachment suffering issues would affect the others. Since the other soldiers were not in combat right now, they could afford to inquire and attempt to help, assuming they wanted to. She collected herself enough to attempt to respond to them eventually.
-skit-PU-04280 data incomplete | locationrequest confirm? She broadcasted. With that, she quieted down and waited nervously for the response.
-skitstatus datafill locationstatus | transport shuttle to Ark Mechanicus Corona Mechanea
The reply seemed odd. Why was she being sent to an Ark Mechanicus? She should be protecting her master!
-skit-PU-04280 text | Would you like to pray with me to calm down?
That’s the ‘voice’ of the Marshal, she guessed. Calmer, kinder, more verbose. She nodded, though none of the others could see it, and transmitted her affirmation. The prayer that the Marshal began to transmit was not familiar to Haixia, but when the words appeared in her psychocircuitry, she recited them as intended, voice shaking slightly still.
Clothed in the red of Mars
Blessed with True Flesh
Protected by armor upon our bodies
Sanctified by the priests of the Machine God
Let this be our prayer for guidance; let this be for our strength; let this be for our courage, for we are warriors true to the cause of the Cog
Glory be given to the Omnissiah, be it through the marching that we do, or through the foes that we slay, or through the objectives that we achieve. Glory be given to the Omnissiah, through all the Machine Spirits we fight to protect, through the flesh that we desire to preserve.
Courage, let it be given us, so we may serve and serve truly.
Courage, let it be installed into our systems, so we may not falter.
Courage, let it be built into our core, so we may fight and fight hard.
Courage, let it be constantly refreshed, so we may honor mankind.
Bless us, Machine God, with your steel and with your fury.
Bless us, oh holy Cog, with your determination and your steadfastness.
Bless us, Omnissiah, with your desire for the success of the Grand Design.
Ave Deus Mechanicus
Let none stay our march
And Haixia found herself calmed by the prayer, enough so that she managed to collect herself for the remainder of the shuttle ride. She still thinks and worries about her master though. She needs to know what happened to him. Where he is, and why he isn’t with her.
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Jura scuttled on many legs along the hallways of the Corona Mechanea. He did not speak to any he passed, instead charging along single-mindedly. Each and every one of his detecting instruments were tracking a specific signal, guiding him far and fast towards a far hanger. He can feel hot steam and smoke in these halls. Sweltering and hellish by most standards. It is, however, quite a familiar sight to one from a Forge World.
He barges right into the hanger, pushing past Servitors and Menials and even other Tech-Adepts. He has only one goal right now. The signal he was tracking pointed to a specific shuttle, and he scuttled quickly toward it. As containers are hauled out, Jura identifies the right heavy metal crate and takes it from the loading Servitor.
He tears the crate open with many arms, claws and mechadendrites, and reaches inside to withdraw the shaking form of his soldier. She does not say anything. She simply grabs onto him with all four arms, and wraps her spike tail around one of his arms. It had only been a week and a half since they had last seen each other. it had been necessary to transport her as cargo alongside the other Skitarii. It seemed he would need to be more careful in how or if he leaves the Skitaria. With her held close, he retreats from the hangar and moves back along the long hallways to his room.
Together again. Hopefully his soldier could forgive him.
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2025.02.02 04:52 The_Way358 An Ebionite's Attempt at Answering the "Synoptic Problem"
Luke's 1st Edition Proto-Luke came first, and experiences 2 significant redactions later on, making a total of 3 editions with the third being what is now considered "canonical Luke." "Proto-Mark" came after Proto-Luke, and used Proto-Luke as a source. Proto-Luke was perhaps a Greek translation of the original "Gospel According to the Hebrews" (which, like Proto-Mark, originally had the "this day have I begotten thee" line from God in the baptismal account of Jesus). Evidence for Proto-Luke containing the "this day have I begotten thee" line in Jesus' baptismal account can be found in the fact that even scholar Bart Ehrman points to the oldest Greek manuscript of Luke retaining it whenever discussing what is perhaps the oldest Christology: Adoptionism (or some form of it).
Evidence that Luke utilizes a Hebrew source in the composition of his gospel can be demonstrated by observing how scholars often note that Luke contains an abnormally high number of Semitisms in comparison with Matthew and Mark. This fact can be attributed to the theory that Semitisms derive from an original Hebrew Gospel authored by an apostolic witness. Scholar James Edward tested this very hypothesis in his extensive book, The Hebrew Gospel & The Development of the Synoptic Tradition. His approach was to chart the individual Semitisms of Luke verse by verse, to see if they occurred in statistically greater numbers in passages unique to Luke. The results were found to support this theory.
Mark's 1st Edition Reasons for believing that canonical Mark is not identical to its original edition is due to instances where canonical Matthew and Luke agree with each other against Mark, suggesting canonical Matthew and Luke were using a different version of Mark as a source than we have today. Further, the earliest copies of Mark have a significantly shorter ending (it ends at 16:8), demonstrating that the author of Proto-Mark apparently believed Jesus did not immediately appear to anyone in his resurrection and instead ascended straight to heaven.
In comparison to Proto-Luke, the original author of Mark seemingly had an agenda and tendency to be drawn toward Pauline-esque views. Thus, the author of Proto-Mark heavily abridged/redacted Proto-Luke while inventing the theme of the "Messianic Secret" (cf. 1 Cor. 2:7-8) with a focus on miracles and the Passion narrative for his gospel. Proto-Mark's Passion narrative might've also been slightly different than Proto-Luke's due to some of Proto-Mark's concerns. Proto-Mark's resurrection account was also obviously different, and would've been validating to Paul's view that encountering a risen Jesus much later through revelations or visions is superior to the Jesus that the 12 disciples were more familiar with in his earthly life, because Paul was more concerned with what the resurrection meant than what the living Jesus actually taught.
Proto-Mark's concerns are in-line with much of Pauline theology, which emphasizes miracles alone as being enough to validate a prophet or teacher (in contradistinction of the "apostasy principle" outlined in Deut. 12:32–13:5), spiritualism as opposed to social needs, and believes in the idea of a "ransom" or blood atonement being necessary for reconciliation with God. Mark is also apparently sharply critical of the members of Jesus' family – something that Mark seems to feel very strongly about. Presumably he had some negative dealings with churches that were dominated by Jesus' family members, who would've been Jewish and much more Jewish-oriented in their doctrine (which would've been problematic to Mark, seeing as he apparently did not agree that eating food devoted to idols was actually sinful, based on Mark 7:15-23). The other gospel writers/redactors have perhaps not had the same problems and are not willing to join in the hating with him, hence their omission of Mark 3:20-21 and reading of Mark 3:31-35.
This would all make sense given Paul's disputes and disagreements with the "Jamesonian" or Jerusalem Church, which was seemingly led by James the brother of Jesus himself. Paul, like Mark, did not agree with James that eating food devoted to idols was inherently or actually sinful (1 Cor. 8–10). Therefore, Mark would've had further incentive (besides the implications of his portrayal of the resurrection for Paul) to portray the apostles as foolish or "without understanding" as he often does, and change "James" to be the brother of John the son of Zebedee instead of simply calling him Jesus' brother in his particular gospel's version of the naming of the apostles; Mark had motivation to denigrate or invalidate the apparently inherent authority of James as the successor to lead the Church after Jesus had departed.
All that said, Proto-Mark's author and Paul seemed to have some differences of opinion, at least with regard to Christology.
The similarity between Paul's Christology and the author of Proto-Mark's was that they both seemingly shared a belief that Jesus was possessed or "indwelt" by a pre-existent divine archangel at some point. This would've been familiar to Greek/Gentile followers of Jesus through Paul who already believed in the idea of a prōtotokos, the "firstborn" or "first in position" or "highest in ranking" from God, as this idea promulgated that God could not "get his hands dirty" in creating all things, so He ("the Father") thought it appropriate to only create one thing ("the Son"), who himself ("the Son") essentially receives credit for creating all things afterward (and thus, is deserving of worship, equal to or sometimes greater than "the Father" by reason of practically and essentially being responsible for creating all things besides himself).
Despite this strong similarity shared between Proto-Mark and Paul, Paul believed Jesus became "Christ" and/or possessed by this divine archangel (prōtotokos) at his resurrection, whereas Proto-Mark's author believed Jesus became "Christ" (prōtotokos) at his baptism. Further, Proto-Mark did not seem to believe Jesus actually descended from David, and believed instead that the Messiah could've simply been anyone who was "entered into" by the Holy Spirit and so made the Son of God.
This might explain the language of Mark's account of Jesus' baptism in describing the Holy Spirit entering into him rather than simply resting upon him (Mark 1:10 in Greek cf. Luke 3:22 and Matt. 3:16) and the lack of a genealogy, whereas Paul is demonstrated as having believed Jesus became "the Christ" at his resurrection as he (Jesus) "was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh" and "was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" (Rom. 1:3-4; see also Acts 13:32-33 cf. Gal. 4:12-14).
As a possible explanation for this difference in Christology, Barnabas and Paul (who were previously very close in their beliefs and ministry) eventually had a sharp split over Christology itself instead of simply what the author (or a later editoredacter) of Acts describes it as being over (cf. Acts 15:36-39), so the original author of Mark could've been a disciple of Barnabas and/or a follower of Barnabas' particular faith tradition in general instead of Paul's. It's been theorized and suggested throughout history that Barnabas might've actually wrote the "epistle to the Hebrews," hence that work retaining the "this day have I begotten thee" line from the original account of Jesus' baptism while strongly arguing for an understanding of Jesus' mission and ministry that closely resembles Paul's blood atonement/"ransom" theology. Further, the author of Hebrews (again, possibly Barnabas himself) seemingly shares in the belief of Paul (cf. 2 Cor. 12:11-12) and the author of Mark that miracles are most important whenever it concerns determining the validity of a self-proclaimed prophet or teacher (Heb. 2:1-4).
Luke's 2nd Edition The second edition of Luke came when Paul's lawyer before Rome (the author of Acts, or at least an earlier version of it, who we'll be calling PL for short) used Proto-Luke as a source to create his redaction, alongside Mark (or Proto-Mark), the original Apostolic Decree (or "Proto-Didache"; the decision and letter made to all churches by the Jerusalem Council that was described and referenced to in Acts 15), and a copy of the epistle of James.
Reasons for believing the second edition of Luke was created as part of a legal brief (now "Luke-Acts") are as follows:
Focus on Paul's legal situation - A significant portion of Acts is dedicated to detailing Paul's arrests, trials, and defenses, including lengthy speeches where he explains his actions and beliefs to Roman authorities.
Addressing Roman concerns - PL (Paul's Lawyer) often emphasizes that Paul and the early Christians were not subversive or a threat to Roman rule, highlighting their obedience to laws and authorities.
Detailed accounts of events and witnesses - The narrative includes specific locations, names of individuals, and chronological sequences, which could be seen as an attempt to establish a clear and verifiable timeline of events.
Theophilus as a potential Roman official - The text is addressed to "Theophilus," a name that could indicate a high-ranking Roman individual who might be involved in legal matters.
In short, the theory that Luke-Acts functions as a "legal brief" is based on the idea that PL was writing to defend Paul against potential charges in a Roman court, particularly focusing on the extensive details provided about Paul's travels, trials, and appeals, which could be seen as evidence presented to support his innocence; this theory often points to the recipient of the text, Theophilus, being a potential Roman official involved in Paul's legal proceedings.
The accusation Paul was facing was that he illegally brought a Gentile into the temple, past the limits of the courtyard that Gentiles were only allowed to worship in. Most scholars do not regard the epistle to the Ephesians as being an authentic letter from Paul, but it would've been rather damning for Paul's case if it were, as it seems to portray Paul as being dismissive of the barrier which Gentiles were not supposed to cross in the temple, with "Paul" arguing that only "the spiritual temple comprised of God's people, Jew or Gentile" matters. If the letter was not written by Paul, it seems clear that whoever wrote it was writing it in defense of Paul's actions if he indeed commit what he was accused of.
Also, this edition of Luke noticeably changes what Mark 8:15 probably retained, which says, "And he [Jesus] charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.” While PL does usually portray the Herodians as unnecessarily unjust (and even antagonistic at times) toward the Jesus' movement, it seems rather odd to suddenly change the reading of this single and individual line to simply, "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." [Note: PL seems to prefer Proto-Luke's order of events as opposed to Mark's, as shown here with this saying of Jesus happening in a completely different context in comparison to Mark, demonstrating priority of Proto-Luke.]
This odd change might be the result of PL being aware of Paul's Herodian beliefs, which would've been a conflict of interest. PL apparently did not use any of Paul's own actual letters in his defense and legal brief, as Paul clearly disagrees with the 12 who knew Jesus in his life (i.e., James, Peter, John, etc.), and teaches contrary to traditional Judaism's adherence to the Torah.
One of Paul's letters (unfortunately often obscured by modern translations) show that Paul had connections to the Herodian family (probably being a Herodian himself; Rom. 16:11). Also, Paul necessarily had to have Herodian connections to even be originally authorized by the Herodian priests in charge to capture and kill Christians in "Damascus" prior to his supposed conversion, as only Roman authorities or Roman installed vassals had the auhority to execute people.
The "leaven of Herod" spoken of by Jesus in Mark might refer to a teaching that originated with the Herodian family, which was that the Torah wasn't directly given by God at Sinai but by intermediaries in the form of angels instead, which Paul apparently also believed (cf. Gal. 4:1-9). Even if Paul did have Herodian connections (and which could easily be discerned in this legal brief), changing this particular line from Jesus about the "leaven of Herod" would at least absolve Paul of believing in a particular doctrine that, like the teachings spelled out in the letter to the Ephesians concerning the temple, would've been damning to Paul.
This teaching or "leaven" of Herod was something many Jews would've vehemently disagreed with, as it could serve as an argument that the Torah was not as valid, or perhaps not as authoritative or binding, as traditionally taught. It was of utmost importance that PL made Paul appear to be in complete harmony with what the Jamesonian Church taught (a very traditionally Jewish sect of the Jesus movement, as opposed to Paul's sect), otherwise it could spell destruction for the whole Jesus movement altogether, as it could've been considered heretical and thus no longer truly part of Judaism, and Judaism itself was protected by Rome in not forcing its adherents to worship the Roman emperor.
Whether PL personally agreed with Paul is not exactly discernible. What is discernible is that PL was apparently a good lawyer, who defended Paul no matter what he knew about his client, as any good lawyer does.
Something else that's clearly discernible is that PL had access to letters and documents that came from the Jamesonian Church and which were written by some of the 12 themselves. Those letters included the "Apostolic Decree" (which scholar Alan Garrow does a fantastic job of showing was, in a much earlier form than what we have it now as, the original Didache), and the letter of James. Parts of both of these documents are used in PL's composition of his redaction of Proto-Luke, as Alan Garrow demonstrates in his work that the Didache is an extant instance of the material shared between Matthew and Luke but not Mark, and I have personally observed that James was also used as a source for canonical Luke (and Matthew as well). I have come to this conclusion concerning James by comparing what the epistle named after him says to the sayings of Jesus as mentioned in Luke. James' sayings are reflected as being more more primitive in how the epistle words what is seemingly attributed to or put on the lips of Jesus in Luke.
It's possible PL had access to these documents because the Jamesonian Church knew what it would mean for them if Paul was found guilty, and so offered them to PL in order to help in his case. Perhaps PL asked for them, or perhaps they willingly offered them of their own accord. It's also possible Paul already had access to these documents. It's easy to see why Paul might've had access to the Apostolic Decree (cf. Acts 15), though not as easy to see why he had the epistle of James. Thus, perhaps the Jamesonian Church only had to offer this letter, while Paul already had the "Apostolic Decree."
It's also possible, though probably less likely, that PL had access to other letters from the Jamesonian Church to use as sources, like the (now lost) letters of Peter or John (as most scholars consider the letters named after them in the traditional canon to be forgeries). Scholars tend to view the letter of "James" as not actually being written by him, but by someone else. However, scholars also tend to view it as very representative and close to what James himself would've believed and taught. (It's my personal opinion that it was indeed actually written by him, but I understand that this is not the opinion or view of most scholars, which is totally understandable and not something I am hiding.)
It makes sense that PL would've had access to many sources, given his statement to "Theophilus" in his legal briefing's introduction indicating that many have already "taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us" (Luke 1:1). It also makes sense that the only potential real disunity between Paul and James mentioned in PL's legal briefing is near the end of it (cf. Acts 21), where PL paints a picture of Paul as being extremely Torah-Observant (as opposed to how he actually is when one simply looks at in his letters; see Galatians cf. 1 Cor. 9:20-21), and obedient to James' test to vindicate Paul of the accusations of apostasy being raised concerning him.
Whether Proto-Luke contained within it Jesus' genealogy as mentioned in chapter 3 of canonical Luke is difficult to discern (given PL's motivations to have a genealogy in the first place, as he has to defend Paul as truly adhering to Judaism). It almost certainly, however, did not contain the first two chapters, which are about John the Baptist's origins and has the infancy narrative of Jesus. Most scholars agree on this, and for lack of space and time here I won't be giving all the reasons as to why they do, but rather only the reasons that are highly relevant to our discussion here.
A reason to believe PL's version of Luke probably did not contain the first two chapters (with the exception of verses 1-4 in chapter 1, of course) is because one of our earliest Bibles (the Syriac Sinaticus) actually says that Jesus is the natural born son of Joseph and Mary in its genealogy of Jesus, which directly conflicts with the virgin birth narrative that would've just been described in the prior two chapters had those chapters been original. Further, it's commonly understood among Jews that "Jewishness" and tribal lineage comes through patrilineal descent as opposed to matriarchal (cf. Gen. 46:8-27, Deut. 7:3-4, 1 Chron. 2:10-15). A virgin birth would've made it impossible for Jesus to be considered the Messiah in PL's day, and would not have helped Paul's case at all. It would've been rather detrimental for his case, in fact, as Judaism traditionally teaches that the Messiah must be a descendent of David on the basis of the many passages throughout the TaNaKh that clearly outline this principle.
The Messiah must, therefore, had descended from David through the father in the minds of Paul's accusers (as well as his opponents in the Jamesonian Church, whom PL was attempting to make Paul appear in harmony with).
Something else that serves as evidence that PL did not use Paul's own letters as a source for his edition of Luke is the fact that, according to Bart Ehrman, some copies we have of Luke contain an extremely different reading of Luke 22:19-20, which is the only passage in the entire gospel that has Pauline influence in canonical Luke, being that all the "ransom" language is missing from it. In canonical Luke, the passage reads:
"And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you."The earliest copy of Luke has the passage read this way, however (which is missing the parts I bolded in canonical Luke):
"And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body."What follows is one of the arguments Ehrman gives in support of the shorter reading being more original:
Ehrman says elsewhere:[The] view that Jesus death was “for others” is precisely a view not found otherwise in Luke’s Gospel or the book of Acts. Luke has in fact eliminated that kind of language from the passages he inherited from his predecessor Mark. Luke otherwise (in his Gospel or in Acts) does not present a doctrine of atonement as a way of understanding Jesus’ death. But this passage does.
[...]You get the clearest view of Luke’s understanding of Jesus’ death from the speeches delivered by the apostles in the book of Acts. As you probably know, Acts is about the spread of the Christian church throughout the Roman Empire after Jesus’ death and resurrection. About a fourth of the book of Acts consists of speeches by its lead characters, and a number of these speeches are delivered to non-Christian audiences in order to get them to convert. You will find such speeches, for example, in chapters 2, 13, and 17.
Finally, PL portrays Peter in his sermons as having a distinct Christology when compared to Paul or Mark. PL was apparently honest enough to point out the differences between Peter and Paul's Christologies, as PL's description of Peter's supposed sermons suggests that Peter would've probably believed that Jesus became Christ at his baptism (Acts 10:37-38), as opposed to Paul's view that Jesus became Christ at his resurrection (Acts 13:33). Because of all of this, it should be no surprise that the author of canonical Luke appears rather contradictory in describing a whopping three different Christological views in the form of Luke 1:32 (Jesus as Christ at birth), Acts 10:37-38 (Jesus as Christ at baptism) and Acts 13:33 (Jesus as Christ at resurrection), as the original author of Luke (i.e., Proto-Luke) isn't actually contradicting himself; there are multiple voices in the "Gospel of Luke" as we have it today, due to the infancy narrative almost certainly being inserted there by a later redacter, and PL's agenda to defend Paul before the Roman court with his particular edition of Luke.Jesus’ death is regularly discussed [in Luke’s speeches in Acts]. And it is never called an atonement. Then why did Jesus die?
For Luke, Jesus died because he was a great prophet of God who was rejected by his own people. They, the Jewish people, were ignorant of what they were doing. They didn’t realize who Jesus was. But in fact he was completely innocent of all charges brought against him. The people who are hearing the speeches are told all this, and they are told that they too are responsible for the death of God’s great prophet and messiah. This makes them feel their own guilt for their own sins. When they realize how sinful they are, they are driven to turn to God and beg for his forgiveness. And he gives it to them, so they are saved.
To make the matter as succinct as possible, for Luke, Jesus’ death drives people to repentance. It is an occasion for forgiveness.
Here is my key point: there is a difference between an atonement for sins and the free forgiveness of sins. Mark thinks Jesus’ death is the first (as does the apostle Paul, for example); Luke thinks it is the occasion for the second.
Here’s the difference between atonement and free forgiveness. Suppose you owe me a thousand dollars. But you don’t have a thousand dollars to pay me back. There are two ways we could deal with this (apart from my taking you to court). On one hand, you could find someone who would be willing to pay your thousand dollars for you. If they did so, I would accept the payment and then let you off the hook. I wouldn’t care who paid the money, so long as I got paid. Alternatively, on the other hand, I could simply tell you not to worry about it, that I don’t need the money and you don’t have to repay me.
The first option is like atonement. Someone pays a debt owed by another. The second option is like forgiveness. I forgive you and your debt and no one pays it.
Mark, and Paul, have a doctrine of atonement. Jesus’ death is a death “for the sake of others.” He dies in the place of others. His death is a sacrifice that pays the debt that is owed by others. Luke does not have a doctrine of the atonement. For him, Jesus’ death makes you realize how you have sinned against God and you turn to God and beg his forgiveness, and he forgives you. No one pays your debt; God simply forgives it.
Jesus’ death, then, continues to be vitally important to Luke. Jesus is God’s messiah, his very Son, the final great prophet sent here at the end of time to deliver God’s message of forgiveness. But rather than accepting him, the Jewish people rejected him and killed him. When you realize with horror what has happened, you turn to him – and to the God who sent him – and ask for forgiveness for your sins. God forgives you, and you then have eternal life.
Further, it is commonly known amongst scholars that the "Book of Acts" itself has experienced edits and redactions in certain places, but whether this is also applicable to the descriptions of Peter and Paul's respective Christologies is unknown. It's therefore possible PL wouldn't have originally written Acts 13:33 the way it appears now, as it would've hurt Paul's case. Regardless, it's apparent that someone at least tried to obscure or make vague Peter's particular Christology through Acts 2:36, which says:
"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."It need not be assumed that PL portrayed Peter here as teaching a Christology similar to that of Paul's in Acts 13:33. Peter's statement here is simply too vague to reach that conclusion, and he can easily be interpreted as saying that the Father just vindicated His Son Jesus at his resurrection and/or ascension, rather than God actually making Jesus His Son right then and there. In other words, Peter could've believed Jesus was already God's Son prior to his resurrection and/or ascension, and was simply saying in Acts 2:36 that Jesus' status as God's Son was proven to everyone else by said resurrection and/or ascension; to Peter, there might've not been any change in Jesus' status of Messiahship at the resurrection or ascension, but rather these things served as a mere vindication from the Father for the sake of proving to others who slew Jesus that he was in fact His Son, and so was both "Lord and Christ."
Acts 2:36, even within the greater context of the passage itself, isn't clear on when exactly Jesus would've been made "both Lord and Christ" by God. In fact, the context might suggest that Peter would've still disagreed with Paul (like he apparently does in Acts 10:37-38), given that Jesus is called "Christ" just a few verses earlier (vs. 31) when he's describing him in the grave (i.e., while he, Jesus, was dead) and not yet risen or ascended.
On the surface, Luke's portrayal of Peter and the author of Mark share the same Christology. They were both essentially Adoptionists, after all. Adoptionism basically says that Jesus was adopted by God to be His Son at his mikveh (or "baptism") of repentance by John the Baptist. However, upon closer inspection, it seems that Peter and Mark were very different kinds of Adoptionists. It seems that Adoptionism was only an umbrella view, with sub-categories existing underneath it.
Peter, according to Acts 2:36, apparently did not share in Mark's view that Jesus was ontologically anything more than a man (either physically or spiritually), being that Peter only ever describes him as such. Peter probably understood Jesus’ divine sonship in light of the ancient Israelite conception of theocratic kingship. Some of the relevant texts seem to allude to Psalm 2:7 (see also 2nd Samuel 7:14) in portraying Jesus as the royal heir of King David, since the king of Israel is called God’s son and was divinely begotten metaphorically when he was enthroned.
In the TaNaKh, a coronation of sorts would take place for the kings when they were anointed by a prophet (1 Sam. 10:1; 16:3, 1 Kin. 1:39, 2 Kin. 9:6). John the Baptist would've certainly been seen as fulfilling a prophetic role in "preparing the way" for the Messiah, Jesus, and "annointing" him through the use of water apparently fulfilled this imagery as well. Peter probably thus thought Jesus became the "Son of God" at his baptism, and was endowed with miraculous and prophetic power, in a similar manner as the Israelite king Saul was at his coronation (1 Sam. 1:10-12). Jesus would've obviously been seen as having been endowed with more power than anyone that preceded him, though, when (according to Luke and Matthew) the fullness of the Holy Spirit came to rest upon him (as opposed to "into" him, according to Mark).
As a result of these findings, I've coined the term "Coronationism" to describe Peter's particular Christology and form of Adoptionism, whereas "Possessionism" is a more accurate term to describe Mark's flavor of Adoptionism.
In ancient Jewish thought (that seems to continue on today, even), traditonal Jews would have understood and interpreted a "baptism of repentance" as always indicating that the individual being baptized was admitting that they've formerly committed sins of some kind (either purposefully or ignorantly), and are now turning from sin altogether. They also would've believed that the individual's slate from then on was completely wiped clean, assuming said individual's baptism was "genuine," with the person's heart truly seeking forgiveness from (and righteousness with) God prior to their public confession and ritual ablution.
It therefore makes sense why fragments of the "Gospel According to the Hebrews" portray Jesus as possibly having committed a sin of ignorance prior to his baptism from John, yet "sinless" thereafter. [Note: This idea might make some Christians reading uncomfortable, but I'm just laying out possibilities that the relevant data seems to support.]
Matthew's 1st Edition The Gospel of Matthew is not my area of expertise, so I'll defer to scholars like Alan Garrow and others who've already done a great job in demonstrating the validity of Matthean Posteriority. What I will say, however, is that whoever wrote Matthew was clearly using some version of Luke (probably Proto-Luke), some version of Mark, the Didache, the epistle of James, and the letters of Peter.
I say that the letters of Peter were probably used due to similarities between Matthew and some of what is said in these letters (e.g., "be ye holy as I am holy"). It's possible, however, Matthew is using much earlier versions of Peter's letters in the composition of his gospel. The reason I say this is that early Ebionite communities (which, according to most scholars, would've probably descended from the Jamesonian Church or sect) apparently possessed literature which states that the letters of Peter were being intercepted by an opposing faction, and said letters were being corrupted in order to put in the mouth of Peter doctrines and beliefs he did not actually agree with or teach.
This literature, which was apparently also letters written by Peter and James themselves and were sent to one another (though there isn't any direct evidence for this, and scholars debate about the documents' dating and true authorship in any case) suggests the possibility that the letters as we have them now are significantly different than what they could've been originally, and were indeed Peter's letters at first.
Evidence supporting this possibility is the fact that most scholars unanimously agree that these letters are written in such eloquent Greek that Peter, an Aramaic speaking former fisherman, was probably not able to write these letters himself. Thus, the original letters might've been overwritten or completely rewritten by whoever was responsible for this supposed tampering, by someone who would've had Greek as their first language and was excellent at speaking.
More evidence supporting the possibility of this narrative is the fact that Peter's first letter seems to naturally end at 5:11, yet continues for 3 more verses in our modern Bibles to 5:14. Those 3 verses read:
"By Silvanus [or "Silas," a companion of Paul], a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus [or "Mark"] my son. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen."The extremely Pauline language of these 3 verses, as well as most of the first chapter, seems to indicate that this is a document that has been significantly redacted, given the fact that the original author of 1st Peter believes in a model of forgiveness that more closely resembles Luke's as opposed to Paul's (cf. 1 Pet. 2:21-23, 1 Pet. 4:1-5). Whoever wrote the last 3 verses apparently wanted to make it seem as if Peter validated Paul's companion Silas, and possibly former companion Mark, and thus Paul's ministry in general.
Back to the main subject at hand, whoever wrote Matthew apparently had a low view of Gentiles and women in general, did not share in Luke's strict belief that possessing "earthly" riches was inherently immoral, and was vehemently opposed to Paul's teachings concerning the Torah itself (which, Jesus and his earliest followers wouldn't have been concerned with, considering they were all still Jews and would've thought of themselves as such at this point).
The Gospel of Matthew is a document that might've been written by later Christians that branched off or came from the "Jamesonian Church" or sect, considering its very Jewish nature and the Jewish concerns of whoever wrote it. Further evidence that this author came from a tradition that had its roots in the early Jesus movement is that it retains very difficult or "hard to receive" sayings of Jesus (e.g., Matthew 19:11-12).
Finally, this first edition of Matthew probably did not contain a virgin birth, and also probably did not contain the exact same genealogy, for the reasons given earlier as to why Jews would naturally not agree that a person can be considered Messiah if said person did not actually descend from David through the father's line genetically.
Luke's 3rd Edition Later opponents of Matthew's community or sect seemingly edited the genealogy to make it so Jesus could not have been the Messiah whatsoever by making it so that he descended from Jeconiah, who was cursed by God in the TaNaKh to have none of his children come back to the throne ever again (which, naturally, would be problematic for anyone claiming to be the Messiah and yet is themselves a descendent of king Jeconiah).
In response to this, it's possible that the third and final edition of Luke (what is now "canonical Luke") was created in an era much closer to Proto-Orthodoxy or "Nicean"/Trinitarian Christianity, as Luke's final redactor apparently felt it necessary to "set the record straight" (so to speak) after looking at this version of Matthew by offering a much a different infancy narrative (if there wasn't already one in this particular version of Matthew at this time), making Jesus much more "Jewish" in describing his circumcision and childhood (as well as his apparent relation to John the Baptist), and presenting a genealogy without the problems of Matthew's now corrupted one.
Finally, some time in between Luke's second and third editions, the "Gospel of Thomas" was created and itself experienced redactions to fit with the ever-changing needs and/or beliefs of the community that it belonged to or descended from. This gospel probably used some version of Luke as a source in its formation, and has even been shown by scholars to actually retain some authentic sayings of Jesus. Further, Marcion's "Evangelion" was probably created around this time as well, and was perhaps what "Thomas" used as a source, or vice versa.
Conclusion If the theory I've proposed here is true, or close to what actually happened, perhaps someone could take all the earliest copies and fragments of the Gospels we have today and give Luke priority as it concerns the order of events when reconstructing what "Proto-Luke" might've looked like. We might also be able to reconstruct it by looking at all the fragments we have of the "Gospel According to the Hebrews," the Gospel of Thomas itself, and what we know Marcion's "Evangelion" contained. We can add back in and/or retain whatever has multiple attestation and those sayings (or versions of sayings) of Jesus that are the most difficult or "hardest" to receive. We might also retain those sayings that lack multiple attestation, but fit the criteria of being a "hard" saying, or maybe even "embarassing."
We can also determine the authenticity of a saying of Jesus if it is a speech that would've been too long for anyone to have reasonably remembered completely, focusing more on short "pithy" sayings or aphorisms that a culture which predominantly passed things down orally might've remembered. Perhaps we can add back in or retain those sayings that appear most primitive in general. Further, we can add back into Luke what might've been damning for Paul in his court case, as PL probably removed or revised those passages that would not have helped in his defense. Perhaps we can also discern what is more original as it concerns blatant contradictions that already exist in the Gospel of Luke as we have it today by taking advantage of some of these tools and textual critical methods (e.g., Luke 9:10-11 vs. 10:13-14, concerning "Bethsaida's" approval or non-approval of Jesus as a true prophet).
Finally, we can remove or revise whatever Pauline influence there is in Luke if we assume Mark shared a lot of the same concerns of Paul in his theology. For example, we can remove those passages as it relates to the "Messianic Secret" theme, the passages that appear as doublets when describing certain miracles of Jesus (due to the author's focus on such, and having to pad out his gospel for having abridged so much of Proto-Luke), and so on. It also goes without saying that we should probably fix doublets in general by retaining the passaage that appears more primitive in comparison to its clone (if at least one of them don't reflect a strictly Markan or Pauline concern; if both appear to reflect a strictly Markan or Pauline concern, it is probably best to remove both passages of the doublet altogether).
Since I unfortunately can't read Greek, Aramaic, or even Hebrew, this is not a task I'm well equipped for. I'm hoping that, one day, someone might consider this theory and method of reconstructing what the original "Gospel" might've looked like.
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