The two Quelles to Christianity

This paper provides the final chapter from my 'Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament - The order of books according to Jesus Chri st' and lays out the textual details of Thomasine Priority and the evolvement of all early texts involved. The succinct summary is that Thomas is the Quelle to Chrestianity, of which *Ev (Marcion's Evangelion) in turn is the Quelle to Christianity. Two grand literary movements, two Quelles: that is why we find such abundant Thomas material in the NT while both texts are so (very) far removed from one another; their intermediary is Marcion's *Ev, which shares the exact same amount of Thomasine parallels that Luke does 1 . Christianity is the hostile take-over of Chrestianity, as such characterised by a ruthless and reckless rewriting of its story and texts, which clearly echoes in the countless disagreements of the Christian gospels themselves; while many orthodox Christian scholars still assume that those gospels were intent to accurately convey (their version of) the words of an Historical Jesus, the sole intent of Mark ff was to fully unleash creative fiction - within the confines already established by the original movement and its texts - and to rewrite whatever possibly could be rewritten in order to steer the story into the desired direction. Mark introduces what much later would become Christianity, and Matthew leads the second round by redacting *Ev into Luke while writing his own gospel on the side; Chrestianity's very first gospel, John, is eventually shifted towards the end and made to 'close the books' on the fourfold Christian gospel canon that effectively gets established already in 175 CE by Irenaeus