What Is the Difference Between Simon Magus and Paul?

In the second or third century there was a gnostic group called the ibionites. They hated paul's ideas, that were too mystical and pagan. But they themselves said that paul and simon magus were one and the same. And it wasn't hard to see the similarities. Both had close female figures. Simon magus had helen, and paul hathela,. who they walked around talking about their ideas. So we trid to get a close as possible, but it's never a hundred %. I can't, as wise scholar once told me, you can't prove history. You can only demonstrate it. We're just speculating and playing with

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