Martyrdom 2

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>POOBAH

>Finally, what criteria does Mr. Carter use in selecting extra-canonical

>Christian sources like Clement? Surely it can't be as ad hoc as those that

>agree with his position, can it? If he can quote from Clement to buttress

>his argument, can I quote from the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Gospel of

>John, the Gospel of Mary Magdelene, and he will accept those as evidence?

If

>not, what criteria allows him to distinguish between the works of Clement

>and the works of such followers of Jesus as John, Phillip, Thomas & Mary

>Magdelene?


CARTER
Well for one, Clement was more contemporary with the events in question,
unlike your quoted Gnostic and pseudopigraphal texts.

POOBAH
Ahh... Now we are getting somewhere. How do you know that my quoted sources
are Gnostic & pseudographical and that yours was written by who it was
attributed to?

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