thunderbolt Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 On answers.org, this appears: Despite Doherty’s dependence on Q, we have no copies of Q, no copies of portions of Q, no references to Q in any of the early Christian writings, no references to Q in any of the early non-Christian writings, no references to Q in any of the gospels or the writings of Paul or the other letters; in fact, no conclusive evidence whatsoever that Q ever existed. The Mysterious Case of the Missing Q Is this claim true or wishful thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Well, you know, Q can be very capricious. Maybe he erased his own history so we wouldn't figure out that religion was all a big prank on his part when Star Trek: TNG came along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin webmdave Posted December 31, 2005 Admin Share Posted December 31, 2005 The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity This linked article should answer some of your questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Tailor Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Q is the superstring theory of Christian theology. It is powerful, elegant and ties together a number of disparate facts, but there really isn't any hard evidence for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Poonis Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 wtf is 'Q' other than a letter of the alphabet? I haven't heard/read of this until just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythra Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 wtf is 'Q' other than a letter of the alphabet? I haven't heard/read of this until just now. Q is short for Quelle, which is a German word for "source". It refers to collections of sayings that appear to be the source of much of the gospels. There are three layers of Q - based on scholars beliefs of the order in which they surfaced. They are called Q1, Q2, and Q3. From "The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man" by Robert Price: "How did we get from Jesus to the gospels? Beginning with the work of Martin Dibelius, Rudolph Bultmann, and Karl Ludwig Schmidt, scholars have surmised that christians circulated a great number of sayings attributed to Jesus and stories of what he had done. They may have passed them on faithfully, already feeling themselves bound by a kind of "oral canonicity". Or they may have freely added to the tradition various items that they thought Jesus might have, must have, or would have said or done. The oral tradition continued to grow and to be passed down, gradually crystallizing in several documents, gospels, at least four. Mark seems to have been the first, along with a collection of sayings scholars call simply Q (for Quelle, German for "source") These two were somewhat later used and combined by two other authors independently, the evangelists Matthew and Luke. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narcissist Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Q is the superstring theory of Christian theology. It is powerful, elegant and ties together a number of disparate facts, but there really isn't any hard evidence for it. Q Theory. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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