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- Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mark 8:24: “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5436
Re: Mark 8:24: “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”
From "Saint Mark" - Pelican New testament Commentaries, D.E.Nineham Mark 8.24 "A fairly close Hellenistic parallel can be cited from an inscription recording a cure in the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus....A certain Alceta of Halice was cured of blindness by the god and 'the first t...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Paul only / Damascus chronology
- Replies: 26
- Views: 21496
Re: Paul only / Damascus chronology
Just as a sort of footnote to this: Gal1.15 "But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, ..." In my RSV it has a footnote to the bolded word to the effect that ...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:30 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Are the archons in Rom 13 demons too?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4953
Re: Are the archons in Rom 13 demons too?
F.F.Bruce in His Tyndale NT Commentary on Romans states, with reference to Rom 13.1-7, 'in the present context the 'powers' appear to be human rulers rather than angelic powers" but notes that Oscar Cullman in his book "Christ and Time" opts for the reference being to both angelic and...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Shroud and Historicity
- Replies: 94
- Views: 75137
Re: The Shroud and Historicity
Joe Nickell, the shroud and National Geographic.
https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/ ... hic_author
https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/ ... hic_author
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Who existed ? When ? Where ?
- Replies: 287
- Views: 212915
Re: Who existed ? When ? Where ?
Wiki "Serapeum" A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis Serapea in Italy 1. Regio tertia - first half of the 1st century BCE 2. Campus Martius - This temple, dedicated to Isis and Serapis, was first dedicated by the triu...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 10:39 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Rules of Historical Reasoning
- Replies: 257
- Views: 170678
Re: Rules of Historical Reasoning
Review by Rafael Lataster on Carrier's OHJ .."To be published in the Journal of Religious History, around December 2014." http://www.raphaellataster.com/articles/review-richard-carrier2014.html An extract "As a result, this work far outdoes anything the typically-amateurish mythicists...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:46 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Dating of the Fourth Gospel: Nongbri
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18185
Re: Dating of the Fourth Gospel: Nongbri
A review of Roger Bagnall's book "Early Christian Books in Egypt" http://www.reltech.org/TC/v16/Bagnall2011rev.pdf "First,there has been a tendency to date Christian papyri too early. And, secondly, there is little evidence for the emergence or visibility of Christianity in Egypt befo...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 2:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: But Now That Faith Has Come
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18200
Re: But Now That Faith Has Come
"He is not saying different things to people" That is exactly what he is doing. He tells us that in his own words. "20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those un...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 2:04 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: But Now That Faith Has Come
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18200
Re: But Now That Faith Has Come
Whatever you say Iskander.
But Joe is right too.
See what I just did?
That is what Paul is bragging about doing.
Saying different things to different people which necessarily involves contradiction [and dishonesty].
But Joe is right too.
See what I just did?
That is what Paul is bragging about doing.
Saying different things to different people which necessarily involves contradiction [and dishonesty].
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: But Now That Faith Has Come
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18200
Re: But Now That Faith Has Come
Well, just to give one example, from 1 Cor above:
" I have become all things to all people".
Pretty blatant actually.
" I have become all things to all people".
Pretty blatant actually.