2. Gentiles find a mystery, hidden within the text
3. This mystery is that there is a greater god apart from and unknown to the Hebrew god and that this hidden god has sent his son to act as a ransom to free humans from the law of the creator.
4. Originators such as “Paul” preached this message as revealed gospel.
5. Later, as the religion fractured, certain groups discounted the idea of a separate god from the creator, instead fusing the character of this unknown god onto the Hebrew god, Yahweh.
6. This fusing accounts for three central quirks of Christianity:
a) A noticable change in the character of god from the orginal Hebrew version to the later Christian version
b) The fact that god, who in the past has no issue dealing directly with his creation, now needs a mediator.
c) The interesting and quite ridiculous “bottom line” of Christianity being that God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself.
This all clears up once one realises that the original Christian god was another god entirely and makes the entire religion make, as much as any relgion can, sense.
Acts 17:23
23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD (επεγεγραπτο αγνωστω θεω). Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
Why would these Greeks be unaware of the Christian god if he was supposed to be one and the same to the Hebrew god? The Greeks most certainly knew about the Jews and their god. This was probably put in to fuse the once separate Christian god and the Jewish god, which would be an attack on the Marcionites. Another line of evidence that Acts of the Apostles was written in the mid to late 2nd century, since there was no Marcionism in the 1st century.
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