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2 Esdras 7 28 For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years. 29 After these years shall my son Christ die, and all men that have life. http://www.biblestudytools.com/kjva/2-esdras/7.html I understand Esdras is a Greco-La...

Actually, there are at least 3 different ways to view it. 1. The belief that Jesus died and was buried but never rose from the dead is one belief. 2. The belief that Jesus died was buried but the body removed/stolen is another. 3. The belief that Jesus died was buried and rose from the dead (empty ...

Joseph Smith used the celestial deity known as the angel Moroni to deliver the message of the Mormon religion. Well, actually, Joseph Smith believed that the God Jehovah and his son Jesus were actual, and remained, human beings made of flesh and blood, who were elevated to divine status. In fact, e...

Speaking of social memory, what about the social memory of recent well documented events, such as WW2, among Brits, United States, Central and South Americans, Canadians, Free French, Vichy French, Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe & Poland, Japanese, Chinese, Indo-China, etc.? These events have be...

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2014/12/24/4154120.htm Here's a response article by Australian Christian apologist/historian John Dickson, who was one of Lataster's professors. Very hard hitting. Like mythical Jesus claims around Christmas, there is also usually a claim that the comet that ...

Maybe. I have also heard how Greek literature and language made its way into gaul. The coins, I understand, if not issued by the Roman mints, were "imitative" coins made in the style of the coins of the Roman empire. Some of the later ones (near the end of the Roman empire) did not actuall...

You might have missed this but he is primarily an ancient historian (as distinct from "Biblical Historians" who have been referred to as the "insiders") I think he actually has a degree in the "History of Philosophy," not of "history" in the general sense. Th...

IN the link provided, the Bishop who Ireneaus succeeded (by election) was sent by Polycarp. The source you linked to has a very high estimation for the authenticity of a letter quoted by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., v. 4) in which it is stated that Irenaeus was, while yet a presbyter, sent with a letter,...

How do Asiatic christians end up in Gaul that early, as Bishops of the area? Why was 'Polycarp' ordaining and sending Bishops to Gaul? I guess things weren't as peacefully worked out between Peter and John's Sees as tradition tells us. Ho! Ho! Ho! No, I'm not having an argument with my wife ... :fa...

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outhouse wrote:... Looks good to me ...

Of course it looks good to you, Bernard crucially skips over source crticism. He uses sources naively, I think mostly in a confirmatory wat.

Wat?