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Why a member of a religion that believes in bodily resurrection should feel the need to question the same belief in another religion? http://www.aish.com/jl/p/mp/48929597.html In terms of Christian belief, the belief in the exclusiveness of Christianity does naturally exclude the belief in the Resu...

Are there folks here who are really suggesting that author of Zechariah 6:12 has in mind some sort of celestial being? Isn't the main proposal & argument that Philo proposed some sort of contemporaneous celestial being? No, actually I readily accept that Philo understood this to be an allegory ...

DCHindley wrote: Are there folks here who are really suggesting that author of Zechariah 6:12 has in mind some sort of celestial being?

Isn't the main proposal & argument that Philo proposed some sort of contemporaneous celestial being?

cienfuegos wrote: What evidence is there of a widespread Christian apocalyptic trend at the time of Josephus?

Shall we say 50-100 AD/CE ?

iskander wrote: PS. I will kindly ignore Josephus as evidence of anything.

Even though that passage is of dubious significance it is, however, a somewhat interesting alignment.

in Judaism the messiah has always been understood as a pre-existing man, such as Bar Kochba who was stated to be a messiah in 130 CE , for example. 'pre-existing' or preconceived ?? There is no evidence to show that anyone in antiquity paid any attention to the obscure words of Philo about "Ea...

Resurrection is now an unpopular notion outside Christianity.

When did resurrection become a predominantly or an exclusively Christian thing?

If people today look behind the Old Testament texts and find features they wish to state New Testament writers used they must demonstrate that those texts were read that way when the New Testament text was written. It i also possible intermediate texts were uses, such as those of Philo, as is what ...

It's likely that the NT narratives were finalized or redacted long after the events they are purported to portray, and its'f quite feasible that may of the narratives were first started far away from the regions they are purported to be set in. I think it's likely that the writers were deliberately ...

Biblical Typology Biblical typology is when a person or an event in the Old Testament foreshadows a person or an event in the New Testament. The bible is full of these kind of things. It is a primary tool of Catholic biblical exegesis to study these, because they all point toward the fact that Jesu...