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Of course there was an earlier "divine only" stage = Marcionism. And the Marcionites were first in many people's understanding. I understand this is a much later medieval idea. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-1000-1450/natural-and-supernatural-middle...

Emmanuel?

Is this the christian answer to the question where is the temple? You are? Does this mean it is all post destruction of Temple or there had been a tradition of asking do we need a temple? I thought the Battle of Marathon was really about does everyone worship their own gods or are told to worship on...

But we don't need to add all this stupidity. It distracts us from finding the right answer. What is often overlooked is that modern Protestants (perhaps 'neo-Protestants is a better description) want Jesus to be a historical man. Fine. But this represents a reduction from the original idea of the e...

Those articles lead to discussions about what caused the Viking incursions! Climate change is noted. I have a couple of timeline history books! My impression is that what causes what is a continuing debate, one cause that is not given much weight is an angel speaking to someone in a cave, but maybe ...

I think the comments there about sea battles may be important. Has anyone connected the Vikings to the Arab successes? ? Were there important technological innovations? I understand the Vikings were using mass production in ship building.

Are we reading GMark with trinitarian eyes? Could the Dove be Jesus?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/05/shadow-sword-islam-tom-holland-review The Roman and Persian empires are traditionally seen as collapsing into a void that our schoolbooks called the Dark Ages. Holland's thesis is that there was no void: depending on how you interpret the material, the de...

Maybe the equivalent of 622 is very important. Holland discuses a receipt that looks like it has an arabic date on it. But does it? A monk worked out 1 AD centuries later. Might something similar have happened? Has anyone actually looked carefully at the dating system? Maybe it does not track back, ...

In 1907, explorers discovered a vast treasure trove of ancient scrolls, silk paintings, and artifacts dating from the 5th to 11th centuries A.D. in a long-sealed cave in a remote region of China. Among them, written in Chinese, were scrolls that recounted a history of Jesus' life and teachings in b...