> because you seem to know nothing about the non-proto-orthodox primitive christians, who we now call, in a generalizing way, gnostics this.    ty_is_older.php > irenaeus, inventor of the biblical canon and chief forger of biblical history > the centralization of jesus in worship seems to have first appeared with the pauline epistles from the marcionites. the conflict between paul and james with peter stuck in the middle, as described in the epistle to the galatians, most likely represents the conflict between the ebionties and marcionites in antioch in the second century. the church of peter in antioch then tried to bring the marcionites and the ebionites together by adopting both the high christology and hellenistic philosophy of the marcionites along with the creation myths, history, and prophetic interpretations of jewish scripture of the ebionites. the pauline epistles we have today are a combination of marcionite concepts like freedom from jewish law and symbolic crucifixion along with more peterine concepts such as jesus being the christ and hellenistic interpretations of jewish scripture. the combination ended up focusing the religion on jesus as a person and as a result, the didakhe, the gospel of matthew and 1 peter were produced. judging from the didakhe, the jewish christians of antioch only accepted jesus as the servant of god and that he was the one who had provided knowledge of the eucharist. greater focus shifts to jesus as one who suffered in 1 peter but the author still only identifies himself as an apostle of jesus, not a disciple. the epistles of 1 and 2 clement talk a lot about jesus without sayings anything about him as a historical person. 2 clement 14:3 even says now the church, being spiritual was manifested in the flesh of christ, suggesting that jesus was meant as a symbol of the church. but this was followed up a literalist reaction
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